San Francisco recorded another powerful earthquake Thursday, adding to an already decent history of similarly strong quakes in the area.

The most famous fault in the U.S. is San Andreas. Of course, the seismic overreactions of the film industry certainly help put its name in the minds of the disaster-conscious, but it’s infamy ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 ...

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...