California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

California earthquakes are a geologic inevitability. The state straddles the North American and Pacific tectonic plates and is crisscrossed by the San Andreas and other active fault systems.

A 2008 U.S. Geological Survey report warned that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault would cause more than 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries, $200 billion in damage and severe ...

A huge earthquake caused by the San Andreas Fault is long overdue and continues to cause concern... A picture shows residents overlooking downtown San Francisco as fires breakout across the city ...

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 the shaking from the earthquake or potentially liquefaction or landslides. In fact, one of the highest hazard places in the Bay Area would be the Santa Clara Valley, because it’s right in between ...

The San Andreas Fault is the cause of some of the worst earthquakes California has ever seen. So of course, we had to see it up close and personal. Like many folks, our family is drawn to the ...

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck Parkfield in Monterey County Wednesday afternoon.The quake hit at 3:56 p.m. and was ...

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 ...

By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, the most treacherous seismic hazard in California. For decades researchers ...

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 ...