Keywords San Andreas Fault, California, earthquakes, geology, tectonic plates, urbanization, seismic activity, fault system, creep, monitoring More for You White House blames 'formatting' for ...

An earthquake has struck California as experts warn that the long-feared “Big One” could be approaching. The US Geological ...

The last major temblor occurred 160 years ago, a catastrophic geological event that ruptured an astonishing 185 miles of the San Andreas fault. The land on either side of the fault has been ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude 2.9 earthquake southwest of Atascadero Monday afternoon. According to the U.S ...

dubbed "the big one," along the San Andreas Fault is overdue because multiple segments appear to be significantly stressed. The U.S. Geological Survey previously predicted that a magnitude 6.7 ...

Hill, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of geological sciences at San Diego ... found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water ...

“This study shows that the Mission Creek strand is actually the main one producing most of the earthquakes in the geologic past,” she says. Some background — The San Andreas Fault is the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least a ... investigated earthquake activity along the southern San Andreas fault over the last 1,000 years. Collecting field data from rocks near the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Atascadero on Monday afternoon. The ...