The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike‑slip transform fault stretching roughly 1,200 km in California.

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

San Andreas fault line could cause greater earthquakes than first thought, researchers say. The central section of the fault line has not had a major earthquake in 2,000 years, but that doesn’t ...

But even if the central San Andreas doesn't build up enough stress to start a large earthquake, it could act as a conduit for quakes originating on the northern or southern section of the fault ...

The U.S. Geological Survey published a hypothetical scenario of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault that could kill 1,800 people, injure 5,000, displace some 500,000 to 1 million ...

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 region of the infamous San Andreas Fault could produce an earthquake any day now, scientists suspect. The San Andreas Fault, which is the border section between two huge tectonic plates beneath ...

Fears over the San Andreas fault line were stoked on Monday night after a 'very heavy' earthquake rocked San Francisco. The quake struck juts after 7:45 p.m. local time on Monday and was centered ...

Scientists have warned that last year’s Ridgecrest quakes in Southern California have increased the risk of a major San Andreas Fault earthquake. The quakes, warn catastrophe modeling company ...

Layers of earthquake-twisted ground are seen at dusk where the 14 freeway crosses the San Andreas Fault. Getty Images Given the small likelihood of a large San Andreas earthquake in the next year ...

When the magnitude-6.4 earthquake on the Fourth of July was followed by an even bigger 7.1 quake Friday night, talk of the "Big One" became inevitable and Google searches for "San Andreas fault ...

In the meantime, areas north of Los Angeles may be long overdue for a whopper of a quake along a portion of the San Andreas fault, according to a second study, this from the U.S. Geological Survey.