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

San Andreas Fault stretches 1,200 km across California, housing quakes up to M 8.3. Experts warn of southern segment’s “Big ...

Bodega Head peninsula stands as the area’s geological masterpiece—a granite headland jutting dramatically into the Pacific, creating both the protected harbor and some of Northern California’s most ...

Scientists realized that the San Andreas Fault is a transform boundary where the Pacific Plate slides past the North American Plate.

Dramatic Video Shows "First-Ever" Fault Movement Surface Rupture Caught On Camera Focus on the background, and watch the landscape move.

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault: New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Editors' notes ...

Nearby San Andreas Fault connects active earthquake zones. One may be linked to Ridgecrest rattlers last week.

The San Andreas Fault The San Andreas fault zone is a continental transform fault or boundary between the Pacific tectonic plate to the west and the North American plate to the east.

The San Andreas Fault stretches approximately 1,200 kilometers (around 745 miles) through California, delineating the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study.