Scientists have detected unusual activity along the San Andreas Fault, sparking concerns that a major earthquake could be ...

Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

California earthquakes are a geologic inevitability. The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems.

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study. The area around ...

The southern San Andreas fault in California is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. New research shows the lack of seismic activity may be due to the drying ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Earthquakes triggered by the notorious San Andreas Fault in California may have been triggered by an ancient ...

The San Andreas Fault is a roughly 800-mile (over 1.200 kilometers) system of fractures that runs much of the length of California and is capable of producing magnitude 7+ earthquakes, powerful ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

The San Andreas Fault is the cause of some of the worst earthquakes California has ever seen. So of course, we had to see it up close and personal. Like many folks, our family is drawn to the ...

Berkeley reports that a part of the San Andreas Fault, at Parkfield, is not producing signals that would suggest an earthquake is going to happen any time soon, but they assert there are factors ...

By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, the most treacherous seismic hazard in California. For decades researchers ...