This is the fourth eartquake to hit California with others felt across the region including shaking in San Bernardino, ...

A third earthquake has rocked San Bernardino after the area was hit by two others earlier, raising fears of a serious seismic ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

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The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake in October 1989 was the most recent major quake associated with the San Andreas Fault, according to the USGS. That earthquake struck in the Santa Cruz ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

The biggest danger zones of the seismic variety are the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest, the San Andreas Fault in California, and the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri.

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

such as the San Andreas Fault in California," says Boyd. The agency found that greater humidity in the eastern half of the country causes the processes to "happen faster so that evidence of fault ...

The USGS says it was about three miles from the San Francisco Zoo near the San Andreas Fault and the depth of the quake was five miles. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries ...