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

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

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the last quake greater than magnitude seven to occur on the San Andreas Fault system. The inexorable motions of plate tectonics mean that every year, strands ...

Although the Pacific plate is moving northwest relative to North America at about 16 feet, or 5 meters, every 100 years, the southern San Andreas fault has been quiet for more than a century.

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 ...

San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA The overall death toll is estimated at 1,800.

Though San Diego is not directly over the San Andreas Fault, there are many smaller right-lateral faults within the wider San Andreas Fault system, such as the Rose Canyon Fault that runs directly ...

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 ...

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water, Lake Cahuilla, was filling or was full with water from ...

Some background — The San Andreas Fault is the boundary between the Pacific plate to the west and the North American plate to the east. The San Andreas Fault isn’t one single line, it is a ...

The southern San Andreas fault in California is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. New research shows the lack of seismic activity may be due to the drying ...

Hidden Planet Researchers find why San Andreas fault hasn’t caused a big earthquake in L.A. — yet. Over the past 1,000 years, earthquakes at the southern San Andreas fault occurred when water ...