Unlike other earthquake-prone places around the planet, California is overdue for a major quake, according to a recent study.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's all earthquake country, as far as the eye can see. Paralleling the Interstate 10 freeway and then ducking under it, the mighty San Andreas fault runs north from the Salton Sea, skirts the ...

An instrument called an interrogator allows researchers to effectively hijack fiber optic cables for use as thousands of ...

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 ...

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