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

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles).

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water, Lake Cahuilla, was filling or was full with water from ...

Monday’s magnitude 4.4 quake that rattled Southern California is believed to have struck on a well-known and dangerous fault system known as the Puente Hills thrust fault system.

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

The San Andreas Fault was not identified until 1895, and it wasn’t until after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that scientists determined the fault ran all the way into Southern California.

The San Andreas Fault cuvée is a blend of different blocks from the estate’s 72 acres of vines, bright with red berry fruit, layered, and complex.

Scientists believe they may have found a reason why the San Andreas Fault, the largest seismic hazard in California, has been dormant for more than three centuries.. The average timespan between ...

The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...

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 ...

The San Andreas Fault, which is the border section between two huge tectonic plates beneath Earth's surface, stretches for more than 800 miles through California.

Part of the San Andreas Fault in southern California may be on shakier ground than previously thought. However, a new study suggests one part of the fault, east of Los Angeles, is accumulating a ...