There is no easy explanation for how the San Andreas fault, responsible for some of America's most powerful earthquakes, has produced so few in the last century. But it is clear that the quiet period ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed buildings along Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Scientists have used sediment layers to ...

California's most famous fault isn't rumbling—it's quietly tightening. A new study of the San Andreas and neighboring San ...

Few people realize it, but the San Andreas fault is divided into three segments. The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister north through the Point Reyes National Seashore, before moving ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

It’s like a scene from a Hollywood movie: A major earthquake along the San Andreas fault ripples through Los Angeles, decimating infrastructure, sparking fires and triggering landslides. For decades, ...

A new study found that California's San Andreas Fault has reached its highest stress level in the last 1,000 years. From the desert of Palm Springs to the San Francisco Bay Area, the 800-mile fault ...

The fault lines have reached “unprecedented levels” of stress, according to the study, which was recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. The study suggests that stress ...

Stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California has reached the highest levels in 1,000 years, according to new research. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Stress along the San Andreas ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

Scientists used to think so-called “slow slip events” were “theoretically impossible.” Now these subtle tectonic shifts could be the key to predicting future earthquakes. Reading time 3 minutes ...