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

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles).

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. Latest U.S.

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. Three fault ...

The San Andreas Fault slipped by as much as 20 feet in this earthquake. Although ground-shaking damage was severe in many places along the nearly 310-mile fault rupture, much of San Francisco was ...

The 2008 Great California ShakeOut scenario projected that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake (about the same size as the 1906 San Francisco quake) would claim 1,800 lives and cause $200 billion in damage.

The San Andreas Fault is known for several major earthquakes in California history. A magnitude 7.8 that struck San Francisco in 1906 killed 3,000 people and triggered a massive fire that ...

SAN FRANCISCO / New fault lines found along San Andreas' / Mendocino County discovery reported at centennial ... overlooking the Pacific Ocean some 12.5 miles east of the San Andreas Fault.

Can California’s San Andreas fault really get magnitude 9 earthquakes? ... And can an L.A. quake trigger one in San Francisco? Actually, yes. It’s happened the other way around.

The San Andreas Fault awakens, unleashing back-to-back jolts that leave a trail of misery from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Skyscrapers crumble. Fires erupt. The letters of the Hollywood sign topple.

In the 70 years before the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas Fault unleashed three earthquakes bigger than magnitude-6 in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The San Andreas Fault runs from the Gulf of California north to the region of Cape Mendocino. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the slip rate on the fault is about four-fifths of an inch each year ...