Layers of earthquake-twisted ground are seen at dusk where the State Route 14 highway crosses the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, California. In 2006 scientists were warning that after more than ...

(Photo courtesy of Mark Landis) Postcard view of Lower Twin Lake, Wrightwood Ca. 1931 ... sag ponds along the San Andreas Fault to the northwest include Una Lake in Palmdale, which also carries ...

Located in Antelope Valley, Palmdale sits right on top of San Andreas Fault Line. One of the centers of the US aerospace industry could face utter destruction in case of a major earthquake in the ...

The San Andreas fault slices the length ... After running across the desert, past Palmdale and up into the Tehachapi Mountains, the fault crosses near the Tejon Pass. The 1906 earthquake gets ...

But for geologists, the narrow desert canyon is something of a canary in the coal mine for what they expect will be a major earthquake coming from the San Andreas fault. The pass sits at a key ...

Layers of earthquake-twisted round alongside the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, California. Through paleoseismic study, geologists can tell the last major earthquake in the southernmost area of ...

This section of the San Andreas, located near the tiny central ... Frontiers in Earth Science states that part of this notorious fault may be gearing up for an earthquake.

By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, the most treacherous seismic hazard in California. For decades researchers ...