The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles).

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

When a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck a day after a 6.4 in Southern California, searches for "San Andreas fault" spiked. Ridgecrest is far from it.

The North American Plate is seen on the left side of the San Andreas Fault with the more colorful Pacific Plate on the right side as they collide in the northwest most corner of the Mecca Hills ...

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

The San Andreas fault appears to be in a critical state and as such, ... Both plates are moving in an approximately northerly direction, ... Map of the San Andreas Fault, showing relative motion.

Map showing the area of the San Andreas Fault that the researchers studied. Rebecca Dzombak In their research, the team looked at historical records of earthquakes in the region stretching back ...

One of the key factors in preparing for the “Big One,” the next massive earthquake in California, is estimating “slip rate,” the speed at which one side of the San Andreas Fault is moving past the ...

San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that spans a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometres) through California, United States. The fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault, marks a ...

The San Andreas Fault is the border section between two massive tectonic plates under the surface of the Earth—the Pacific and North American plates.. It stretches almost 800 miles through ...

The San Andreas fault begins its dangerous dance through California at the Salton Sea, at a spot that seismologists long have feared could be the epicenter of a massive earthquake.

A new US Geological Survey study will look at how the San Andreas Fault behaves close to earth’s surface. The results could improve earthquake hazard estimates.