Keywords San Andreas Fault, California, earthquakes, geology, tectonic plates, urbanization, seismic activity, fault system, creep, monitoring More for You White House blames 'formatting' for ...

When a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck a day after a 6.4 in Southern California, searches for "San Andreas fault" spiked. Ridgecrest is far from it.

1838, northern San Andreas fault, magnitude 7.4: Damage was reported from San Francisco to Santa Clara; the fault likely ruptured from Woodside on the peninsula south of San Francisco to Watsonville.

California’s San Andreas Fault is famous for a reason — nearly 800 miles in length, it caused the notorious 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and could eventually unleash “The Big One.” Its ...

Larger earthquakes at the center of California's huge San Andreas fault line are more likely than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Geology. The research challenged ...

Faults crisscross California, producing deadly earthquakes. But whenever the ground shakes, the first thought always turns to the mightiest and most dangerous fault: the San Andreas. This is the ...

The two earthquakes that occurred this weekend in California, a 6.4 and a 7.1, were the largest to occur in the state in two decades, but they were not connected to the more well-known San Andreas ...

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 ...

San Andreas Fault Will Probably Produce a Major Earthquake by 2045—The Clock is Ticking Published Feb 12, 2019 at 5:00 AM EST File photo: The San Andreas Fault is overdue a big earthquake.

A bridge crosses over the San Andreas Fault from the Pacific to the North American tectonic plates near Parkfield, California. Getty Images Scientists have warned that last year’s Ridgecrest ...

The southern San Andreas, part of a network of faults that run across California, has the most potential for destruction because of the large number of people who live in the area — 10 million ...