Chris Goldfinger, who grew up in the Bay Area and emerged as a leading scientist on the feared Cascadia Fault, discusses the ...

The San Jacinto Fault, considered part of the San Andreas Fault system, has a 5% chance of magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquakes. The line begins at Cajun Pass and runs southeast through San Bernardino, ...

A section of the San Andreas fault where earthquakes occur regularly may give off a distinct signal before it trembles to life, new research finds. The signal hints at the opening and closing of ...

Earthquakes along a notorious section of the San Andreas Fault are driven by extreme temperatures deep beneath Earth's surface, with rocks being broken up and melted at temperatures of around 350 ...

The San Andreas fault line in California may be capable of producing much larger earthquakes than previously believed. The findings were published in the journal Geology, and found that earlier ...

If you're from California, then you know that the possibility of the "big one" is ever-present and largely overdue (San Francisco even has an attraction where you can experience an earthquake safely ...

The clusters of earthquakes have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault.

Percolating downwards, the extra water eventually found its way into a major fault zone that slices through the 12km-long ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is a roughly 800-mile (over 1.200 kilometers) system of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A group of emergency managers, geologists and interested residents took part in a tour of the San Andreas Fault over the weekend. The tour was led by seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, ...