McPhee's 28th book (after The Founding Fish ) is a grown ... from the Sierra Nevada through wine country to the San Andreas fault system, a 50-mile-wide swath of parallel fault lines.

Recalling the time that some predicted California would be struck by a massive earthquake and fall into the Pacific Ocean. Could it really happen?

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North ...

In Gentry’s book, the author used three chapters to ... earth’s crust where it spans the two tectonic plates. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in ...