Two earthquakes rocked California today, one after another, and though they were small, they definitely rattled nerves and ...

The strike-slip movement on the Mendocino Fault occurred around 6 miles beneath ... and they haven’t set anything big off on the San Andreas,” Jones said. The risk of such an earthquake ...

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A series of small earthquakes shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Movement along the San Andreas Fault was to blame. The North American and Pacific tectonic plates had moved past each other by more than 15 feet — compared to an annual average of two inches.

But the potential for large earthquakes extends beyond the San Andreas fault. The West Coast is ground zero for several fault lines due to the movement of the earth between two major tectonic ...

such as the San Andreas Fault in California," says Boyd. The agency found that greater humidity in the eastern half of the country causes the processes to "happen faster so that evidence of fault ...

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Movement along the San Andreas Fault was to blame. The North American and Pacific tectonic plates had moved past each other by more than 15 feet — compared to an annual average of two inches.