In the Point Reyes National Seashore, they could see exactly where the San Andreas fault runs beneath your feet, and where two pieces of the earth ripped apart. "Right on the line," Pesek said.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in November 2021. More than a century ago, one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time shook the Bay Area. While the 1906 earthquake destroyed ...

Point Reyes was worth saving. This giant semicolon of land, right on the hinge of the North American continent where the San Andreas Fault runs through narrow Tomales Bay and the nearby Olema ...

Point Reyes National Seashore’s Rift Zone Trail weaves in and out of forest providing an interesting trek along the San Andreas Fault. The fault line is visible if you know what clues reveal its ...

The Earthquake Trail at the Point Reyes National Seashore, an hour north of San Francisco. The San Andreas Fault runs adjacent to the trail. During the 1906 San Francisco quake, the land along the ...

At the Point Reyes National Seashore ... Here you’re right in the thick of the San Andreas fault system, the granddaddy to all the faults in the Bay Area; the Hayward is part of that system.

[Photo Journal: The Gorgeous San Andreas Fault] The northern segment runs from Hollister north through the Point Reyes National Seashore, then eventually moves offshore. The southern segment ...

The San Andreas fault slices the length of the state ... beyond the Golden Gate before slicing back ashore through the Point Reyes National Seashore. In the tiny town of Olema, earthquakes ...

Located just outside San Francisco, and right along the San Andreas fault line, the natural beauty you see at Point Reyes is all the product of earthquakes. The 1906 earthquake that decimated San ...

not all areas of the fault quake equally. Geologists divide the San Andreas into three segments; the north section runs above Hollister through Point Reyes National Seashore and the southern ...

which sits atop the San Andreas Fault Zone. The fault line marks the place where two tectonic plates meet. Bolinas Ridge sits on the North American Plate. The Point Reyes peninsula is on the ...

Few people realize it, but the San Andreas fault is divided into three segments. The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister north through the Point Reyes National Seashore, before ...