Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

While most people immediately think of the San Andreas Fault when it comes to potential seismic disasters in the United States, there’s another fault line that has recently been gaining more attention ...

Wondering, “Was there an earthquake now?” Track the **latest earthquakes and aftershocks in California with this interactive map. Data is proudly provided by the U.S. Geological Survey … ...

A fault map of the southern part of the State shows the three parallel faults — the Elsinore fault furthest west, the San Jacinto fault about 20-30 miles to the east, and the main San Andreas ...

About 4 minutes later, a magnitude 3.0 quake stuck in the same location near the San Andreas Fault. The quakes were east of California State University, San Bernardino, and were felt in Riverside ...

Like most of California’s coastline, San Diego lies right along the San Andreas Fault, which is one of the largest and most active fault zones in the world.

Earthquakes on the Puente Hills thrust fault could be particularly dangerous because the shaking would occur directly beneath LA's surface infrastructure.

Jones added that earthquakes here could be five to ten times more destructive than earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault. In fact, the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake happened along the Puente ...

Mother Nature was not terribly kind to the Inland Empire in 1899. San Bernardino saw less than half of its normal rainfall, 7 1/2 inches, during the 1898-1899 season, while a huge wildfire fueled ...

A new study suggests an overlooked part of the San Andreas Fault, east of Los Angeles, is accumulating a lot of strain.