In the heart of California, the San Andreas Fault lies like a ticking time bomb, silently building pressure for over a century. Stretching more than 1,200 kilometers, this massive fault marks the ...

San Andreas Fault stretches 1,200 km across California, housing quakes up to M 8.3. Experts warn of southern segment’s “Big ...

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

In the idiotic new disaster movie “San Andreas,” a woman trusts her fiancé to bring her daughter back to college — only to have him leave the girl trapped in the parking garage of a ...

San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. The overall death toll is estimated at 1,800.

The San Andreas Fault has three sections. The southern section runs from the Salton Sea to Parkfield, California, and has the capacity for large quakes. In 1857, for example, ...

The San Andreas Fault line, which stretches some 800 miles across California, marks the boundary between the Pacific and North tectonic plates, according to the outlet.

That said, the San Andreas Fault is dangerous enough to inspire a 2015 blockbuster disaster movie featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, as well as numerous references in similar films.

The San Andreas Fault is known for several major earthquakes in California history. A magnitude 7.8 that struck San Francisco in 1906 killed 3,000 people and triggered a massive fire that ...

Researchers found that three sections of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern California -- Hayward, Rodgers Creek and Green Valley -- are either near or past their average recurrence interval ...

Scientists studying the San Andreas fault in California say they will soon be able to monitor seismic activity from deep inside Earth’s crust so they can identify patterns that might foreshadow ...

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 ...