"San Andreas Fault" explores the geological features and movements of the San Andreas Fault in California. It details how urbanization has obscured the fault's trace, yet it remains visible ...

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 ...

No cheating and scrolling ahead now, because we're going to learn some geology. First, what is the San Andreas fault, and what exactly is it capable of? According to the U.S. Geological Survey ...

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 ...

A 2008 U.S. Geological Survey report warned that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault would cause more than 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries, $200 billion in damage and severe ...

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 ...

Several earthquakes with epicenters beneath the ocean surface rattled the Northern California coastline early Monday. The ...