But what exactly is the San Andreas Fault, and why is it associated with such high-risk earthquake activity? Click through the following gallery for a brief overview of this infamous geological ...

Central Coast residents felt a shake on Saturday evening as an earthquake occurred along the San Andreas Fault. It happened ...

However, the earthquake last Thursday occurred on the San Andreas fault, which is a different type of zone known as a strike-slip fault, where the tectonic plates slide next to each other ...

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 ...

A major earthquake gave California a tsunami scare on Thursday. Aftershocks are ongoing, and they could get big.

There are even man-made earthquakes. Scientists say a huge fracking boom across the United States has left an earthquake ...

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.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have described a new method for studying faults that could improve ...

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

California's free earthquake early warning app, MyShake, is now available for Mac computers and Chromebooks — a major ...

Of arguably greater importance, by shrinking the distance between humans and machines railroads enabled monumental surges in ...