The San Andreas Fault system in Northern California consists ... The alignment array measurements made by the San Francisco State University Creep Project and recently expanded GPS station ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Four areas of the San Andreas fault system in the San Francisco Bay Area have accumulated enough energy to produce major earthquakes, a new study finds. The study ...

Much of the length of the San Andreas Fault is lined by a distinct trough. This false-color radar image shows a section of the fault west of San Francisco Bay; the Crystal Springs Reservoir fills ...

The epicenter of Tuesday`s earthquake was about 60 miles south of San Francisco in a section of the San Andreas fault that did not feel the full brunt of the 1906 earthquake, said Thomas Henyey ...

when a devastating earthquake flattened San Francisco in 1906. Afterward, the northern San Andreas Fault, the state's massive earthquake-maker, lay quiet for eight decades — until 1989's Loma ...

[In Photos: The Great San Francisco Earthquake] The San Andreas Fault has been unusually quiet since these two big earthquakes in 1857 and 1906. Recently, studies looking at the fault's past ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to ...

The San Andreas fault runs 800 miles up the backbone of ... While the northern San Andreas last saw a massive rupture with the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, the southern section hasn’t ...

Fears over the San Andreas fault line were stoked on Monday night after a 'very heavy' earthquake rocked San Francisco. The ...

will be presented at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco on Friday. The San Andreas Fault forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American Plate.

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen ... the U.S. Geological Survey in the San Francisco Bay Area.

SAN FRANCISCO – Four urban sections of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern California have stored enough energy to produce major earthquakes, according to a new study that measures fault creep.