Preliminary data suggests the fault that triggered the powerful earthquake ruptured from west to east, according to Jones. This style and location of faulting, Jones explained, means there is a chance ...

A tsunami warning for the Bay Area after the earthquake in Northern California might have come as a surprise. Here's why it was sent.

The San Andreas Fault is a system of seismic faults along the coast of California. Long known for its devastating earthquakes, it has lain at peace for the last 160 years. Is it time to prepare for ...

The Triple Junction is also the point that the Northwest’s northern Cascadia subduction zone and the southern San Andreas Fault system meet. Thursday’s earthquakes are occurring in the ...

For example, scientists have shown that a large earthquake originating on the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea that propagates to the north will direct more damaging energy into the Los ...

For example, scientists have shown that a large earthquake originating on the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea that propagates to the north will direct more damaging energy into the Los ...

the system of depressions in the ground between the parallel faults of the San Andreas earthquake fault, on heavily-used railroad tracks in Cajon Canyon May 15, 2008 west of San Bernardino ...

but subsequently it turned out to be a larger earthquake, a magnitude 7, but a very typical garden variety event on this northern extension of the San Andreas Fault, which we call the Mendocino ...

The last “big one”-level moments in California’s recorded earthquake history were the 1857 quake in the central third of the San Andreas Fault and the 1906 earthquake in the northern third.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson adds to his likely streak of summer blockbusters with "San Andreas," a disaster film ... to rescue his daughter after an earthquake decimates the Golden State.