Unlike other earthquake-prone places around the planet, California is overdue for a major quake, according to a recent study.

Scientists have detected unusual activity along the San Andreas Fault, sparking concerns that a major earthquake could be ...

Point Reyes sits right on the San Andreas Fault. The Olema Valley landscape has healed, and the fault line has been ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

An instrument called an interrogator allows researchers to effectively hijack fiber optic cables for use as thousands of ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] A region of the infamous San Andreas Fault could produce an earthquake any day now, scientists suspect.

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

The southern San Andreas fault in California is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. New research shows the lack of seismic activity may be due to the drying ...

Fears of a "Big One" came amid a new swarm of earthquakes that hit California's coast on Monday morning (May 26), at the ...

Berkeley reports that a part of the San Andreas Fault, at Parkfield, is not producing signals that would suggest an earthquake is going to happen any time soon, but they assert there are factors ...

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. The area around ...

It's all earthquake country, as far as the eye can see. Paralleling the Interstate 10 freeway and then ducking under it, the mighty San Andreas fault runs north from the Salton Sea, skirts the ...