California’s insurance commissioner says the tradeoffs involved in managing wildfire risk have made his position politically ...

He will lead the university system's 10 campuses, six academic health centers and three laboratories, including UC Davis.

The owners of several thousand San Francisco concrete buildings will soon be required to undertake preliminary seismic screenings to determine whether their structures are at risk of collapse in a ...

(Reuters) -A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica at a depth of just 10 km (6 miles) on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.

Chile’s SENAPRED disaster agency says a coastal area of Magallanes region in the southern tip of the country should be ...

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes — and ...