The San Andreas fault line in California may be capable of producing much larger earthquakes than previously believed.. The findings were published in the journal Geology, and found that earlier ...

An effort to map offshore portions of the San Andreas fault could help scientists better understand past earthquakes -- and the potential for future ones. For the first time, scientists are using ...

The San Andreas fault line is an 800-mile long tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate – two great fragments of the Earth’s crust.

"Based on the deformation patterns, this new fault has accommodated some of the strain from the larger San Andreas system, so without having a record of past earthquakes from this new fault, it's ...

A map displaying each of the seven major fault lines in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the probability of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake or higher occurring on each fault line between 2003 and 2032. See ...

The San Andreas fault, on the other hand, has a major quake once every few hundred years, with the most recent occurring in 1857, thought to be around magnitude 7.8.

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 section of California’s San Andreas fault hasn’t experienced a major earthquake in 300 years, and is around a century overdo for a “big one.” ...

San Andreas fault line could cause greater earthquakes than first thought, researchers say. The central section of the fault line has not had a major earthquake in 2,000 years, but that doesn’t ...

The San Andreas fault line in California may be capable of producing much larger earthquakes than previously believed.. The findings were published in the journal Geology, and found that earlier ...