Alex Biston takes an offroad tour in Palm Desert to the San Andreas Fault, a continental rift that has caused many ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Californians probably know the most famous of faults, the San Andreas, which in Southern California runs mostly beneath remote deserts and mountains. That fault plays a starring role in the 1978 ...

mostly runs beneath remote areas and mountains. Jones said that a major quake on the San Andreas fault would leave about 800 ...

That earthquake struck in the Santa Cruz Mountains on a fault that formed as a result of a bend in the San Andreas Fault, the USGS said. The 7.9-magnitude San Francisco earthquake in April 1906 ...

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the plates. Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.

The USGS says it was about three miles from the San Francisco Zoo near the San Andreas Fault and the depth of the quake was five miles. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries ...

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

Friday’s quake, and its much more powerful relative, likely both occurred along the San Andreas fault, said Robert Skoumal, a research geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey.

This quake originated on the infamous San Andreas Fault, the tectonic troublemaker ... which rocked the Santa Cruz Mountains and left its mark on the Bay Area. Going further back, the ...