Bodega Head peninsula stands as the area’s geological masterpiece—a granite headland jutting dramatically into the Pacific, ...

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

Additionally, a 2016 study by CSU Northridge professor Julian Lozos found that the 7.5 earthquake of 1812 began on the San Jacinto fault and then "propagated" to the San Andreas fault.

The famed San Andreas Fault in California is nearly identical to the one that caused last week’s destructive tremor in Myanmar, and is also overdue for an earthquake.

The place is so peaceful that you’d hardly guess that the San Andreas Fault, that tumultuous collision of two vast tectonic plates, runs directly under the water in front of you. It bisects ...

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Scientists have long been monitoring the San Andreas fault Line that is predicted to be the source of the 'Big One'. It separates the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study.

More information: Luca Malagnini et al, Seismic attenuation and stress on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield: are we critical yet?, Frontiers in Earth Science (2024). DOI: 10.3389/feart.2024.1349425 ...

The 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault is one of the more famous faults in the United States, known as the cause of the Great 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The southern section of California’s San Andreas fault hasn’t experienced a major earthquake in 300 years, and is around a century overdo for a “big one.” To understand this earthquake ...

But the southern San Andreas Fault (SSAF) hasn’t had a good shaking for more than 300 years (despite what mediocre Hollywood disaster films would have you believe).