Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

California’s most dangerous faults are not only defined by the headline grabbing magnitude 7 shocks that topple freeways and rupture gas lines. Deep below the surface, swarms of tiny earthquakes, some ...

California is joining a growing number of states that are banning the use and sale of license plate flippers. The crackdown on license plate flippers is gaining momentum, with California joining a ...

California drivers, get ready: the Golden State is rapidly expanding its use of AI-powered license plate readers. These systems capture and analyze millions of images, tracking where vehicles travel, ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

Experts have warned about the impact of an enormous 'death' process which is impacting our home planet. In total, the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old - so old that if we were to condense that ...

Investigators believe the rental car a missing California girl was in while on a road trip with her mother had its license plate swapped to avoid detection, police said Monday, as they zero in on that ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 29, 2025, 03:16pm EDT Nov 01, 2025, 01:11pm EDT For the first ...

You really never can tell what you're going to see when you get on the road these days. On some occasions, a story pops up in the automotive wilds that errs decidedly on the side of comedic. Take, for ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --A California Highway Patrol officer stopped a vehicle found to be driving with a fake license plate that had been hand-drawn to resemble an official California plate. The CHP's Merced ...