There are also multiple other fault networks beside the San Andreas near Los Angeles, and they create their own hazards. "That's part of what makes this whole problem just so challenging," Ross ...

The San Andreas fault line caused destruction and distinction in California. Ray Isle offers an itinerary to explore the ...

A section of the San Andreas fault where earthquakes occur regularly may give off a distinct signal before it trembles to life, new research finds. The signal hints at the opening and closing of ...

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Now, the bulge of material trapped between these same two plates is being ejected towards the east, thanks in part to the Sagaing fault. As far as faults are concerned, the San Andreas Fault in ...

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean, about 47 miles west of Petrolia, on the San Andreas fault that spans 800 miles from Cape Mendocino in the north to the Salton Sea in the south. This region ...

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.

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 ...

The quake left a surface rupture scar just over 217 miles long along the San Andreas fault. The earliest reported earthquake in California was felt in 1769 by the exploring expedition of Gaspar de ...