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).

San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. The overall death toll is estimated at 1,800.

Scientist knew almost immediately that the Ridgecrest quakes were not on the San Andreas fault. But understanding how those temblors might impact the 730-mile monster capable of producing “The ...

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.

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, ...

The San Andreas fault runs 800 miles up the backbone of California and marks the boundary where two major tectonic plates meet. The fault itself is divided into northern, ...

If the rocks of the fault show signs of rupturing every 150 years and it's been 200 years since the last earthquake, that quake is said to be "overdue." Many of California's faults, including the ...

The San Andreas Fault was not identified until 1895, and it wasn’t until after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that scientists determined the fault ran all the way into Southern California.

In the 1980s, Atwater began creating a series of animations depicting the birth and evolution of the San Andreas Fault. They suggest a precedent, Faulds said, for what is happening along the ...

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water, Lake Cahuilla, was filling or was full with water from ...

Hidden Planet Researchers find why San Andreas fault hasn’t caused a big earthquake in L.A. — yet. Over the past 1,000 years, earthquakes at the southern San Andreas fault occurred when water ...