Scientists said yesterday that they have extracted a ton of rock from deep inside California's San Andreas fault, the first time anyone has collected samples from a geologically active fault zone ...

PALO ALTO -- Rock samples extracted from two miles deep within the San Andreas fault -- the first samples of their kind -- are a breakthrough that could provide new understanding of how ...

While visiting Palm Springs recently, we had to rock this earthquake tour of the San Andreas Fault. Growing up in California, we were taught to respect and fear the San Andreas Fault as kids.

STANFORD, Calif., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. geologists, for the first time, have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault. The actively moving tectonic ...

Deep below California's San Andreas Fault lurks rock-melting forces that are driving tremors underneath a segment 800 mile stretch of the sliding boundary, reveals a new study from the University ...

a rock formed. The San Andreas fault on the Carrizo Plain, which is a sparsely inhabited valley located northwest of Los Angeles. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Using that data, Hilley ...

Along the San Andreas fault near the town of Parkfield ... tremors deep beneath the fault. As the rocks slide against each other, they heat up and begin to melt. Depending on the type of rock ...

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.6 miles and was on the San Andreas fault. CalTech researchers said the second quake was an aftershock. "Aftershocks may be expected in the next few days ...

The San Andreas Fault has three sections ... This heat can spike the temperature of the rocks in the fault by more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius). And those temperature ...

HOLLISTER (KCBS) -- A 4.2 quake rattled the Hollister area Tuesday afternoon -- the latest in a swarm of quakes along the San Andreas Fault running through Central California. According to the U.S ...

Giant rocks stacked in seemingly gravity-defying poses could indicate that earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault can jump to another major fault in Southern California, which in turn could affect ...