California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

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 ...

In fact, one of the highest hazard places in the Bay Area would be the Santa Clara Valley, because it’s right in between the Hayward Fault and the San Andreas Fault, so it’s going to feel shaking if ...

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 ...

Part of the San Andreas Fault in southern California may be on shakier ground than previously thought. However, a new study suggests one part of the fault, east of Los Angeles, is accumulating a ...

For many people, “earthquake in California” equates to the San Andreas fault. The 5.2 was not on the San Andreas, but on the Elsinore fault, part of the San Andreas transform fault system.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a 30-day public comment period opening Monday concerning changes to current ...

There’s not much better in life, as far as I’ve discovered, than sitting outside on a deck over the water at one of the renovated fishermen’s shacks at Nick’s Cove, an inn and restaurant ...

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 ...