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

California’s Unique Seismic Situation. California is often seen as the earthquake capital of the United States, home to several major fault lines, most notably the San Andreas Fault.However ...

A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby ...

(FOX40.COM) — On Thursday night, three earthquakes were detected near California’s most active fault, the San Andreas Fault, ...

The last “big one”-level movements in California’s recorded earthquake history are the 1857 earthquake in the central third of the San Andreas and the 1906 earthquake in the northern third.

In Northern California, however, the activity of small earthquakes near Cape Mendocino disturbs the regularity of the fault, and the tremor is produced in small, disorganized episodes. Scientists have ...

Experts believe a major quake in Southern California- usually defined as 7.0 and up - could kill at least 1,800, leave 50,000 injured and cause more than $200 billion in damage.

California hasn’t seen major earthquakes recently. But they are ‘in our future’ The San Andreas fault is capable of magnitude 7.8 earthquakes.

With nearly four dozen faults in the region stretching from Napa to Monterey, the San Francisco Bay Area has a 72% chance of a major quake registering 6.7 magnitude or higher by 2043, USGS ...

Pressure on the San Andreas fault from a now-dried lake could have been sufficient to trigger past major earthquakes in California. The lake’s disappearance could explain why there have been no ...

(FOX40.COM) — On Thursday night, three earthquakes were detected near California’s most active fault, the San Andreas Fault, according to records from the United States Geological Surve… ...