You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com Earthquakes triggered by the notorious San Andreas Fault in California may have been triggered by an ancient rising lake ...

“Our study shows that the lake by itself was sufficient enough to trigger events on the southern San Andreas fault — and large events,” said Hill. “This is pretty applicable to pretty much ...

A new paper in the journal Nature offers an explanation for why the major fault line is overdue for the Big One. By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake ...

California is overdue for a major earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, which could be due to the absence of a large lake that may have triggered past quakes. The San Andreas fault runs ...

which was once a part of a much larger lake, could explain why earthquakes along this southern fault line have been less frequent. The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines ...

The Salton Sea, a shallow, saline lake, is located directly on the San Andreas Fault. The southern segment of the fault line is considered by seismologists as a prime threat for a major earthquake ...

The San Andreas Fault is a system of seismic faults along ... last-minute astronaut lessons before rocket to space Crater Lake, deepest lake in US, is closing for 2 years Here's the Average ...

There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas ... fault zone runs from the Sonoran Desert in Imperial County through the western edge of Riverside County communities like Temecula, Murrieta and Lake ...

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said this earthquake is likely associated with the Elsinore Fault, which is a branch of the larger San Andreas Fault system. Jones said the depth of the quake was about ...

The place is so peaceful that you’d hardly guess that the San Andreas Fault, that tumultuous collision ... piece of the Pacific Plate — old lake bottom from the Pliocene, Purisima sandstone ...