A new high-resolution map of a poorly known section of the northern San Andreas Fault reveals signs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and may hold some clues as to how the fault could rupture ...

The San Andreas Fault Zone is more than one fault line, it's a zone. This zone is made up of a complex collection of smaller fault segments that accommodate the movement between the North American ...

While the San Andreas fault gets much of the attention, it's the Hayward fault that quake experts consider the most dangerous fault in America. Watch the video or scroll through the interactive ...

Extreme Science San Andreas Toyota Tro Pro. There’s a crack in California. It stretches for 800 miles, from the Salton Sea in the south, to Cape Mendocino in the north.

The San Andreas fault zone is an 800-mile boundary between the Pacific tectonic plate to the west and the North American plate to the east. Here, the plates grind past each other horizontally at a ...

A strike-slip fault is when two blocks slip past one another, like the San Andreas Fault line. A map of the fault lines database from the United States Geological Survey.

The Cascadia subduction zone could deliver the worst earthquake in North America. It runs 700 miles underwater along Pacific Northwest, from Canada to California.

One of the key factors in preparing for the “Big One,” the next massive earthquake in California, is estimating “slip rate,” the speed at which one side of the San Andreas Fault is moving past the ...

Larger earthquakes at the center of California's huge San Andreas fault line are more likely than ... In the south at least 57 people died in 1994 when a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck at ...

The community of Bombay Beach, which was devastated by flooding after two hurricanes raised the level of the Salton Sea in the 1970s, has become a popular tourist destination and a primary target ...

The San Andreas fault zone is an 800-mile boundary between the Pacific tectonic plate to the west and the North American plate to the east. Here, the plates grind past each other horizontally at a ...