While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

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

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 ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to find hidden faults and looming threats in Bay Area cities.

The San Jacinto fault may not be shaking yet, but it's trembling. And if it goes, according to one study, it could rupture along with the San Andreas fault--producing a catastrophic earthquake.

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 ...

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.