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).

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

Earthquakes like the strong December 2024 quake happen along the Mendocino Fracture Zone, a horizontal line that juts west into the Pacific Ocean, according to NOAA, and the beginning of the San ...

If the rocks of the fault show signs of rupturing every 150 years and it's been 200 years since the last earthquake, that quake is said to be "overdue." Many of California's faults, including the ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

The Hollywood Sign sits just 40 miles from the San Andreas Fault. The Big One could potentially trigger other nearby faults to rupture, like the Hollywood fault, ...

One thing I learned as a sports reporter is cutting off your nose to spite your face never works.  Never. You simply do not ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

Notably, earthquakes are clustered along the San Andreas Fault with the size of the shape corresponding to the magnitude of the event. The cubes shown are for non-earthquake incidents.