Valley of the Moon Water District is undertaking a seismic risk assessment to see what aspects of the Valley’s water system are most vulnerable to damage from earthquakes. The 7.0 earthquake ...

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 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.

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 ...

It’s an infamous gaming series with plenty of competition among its stellar line-up, yet Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas remains among the very best crime sims across the entire bullet-ridden, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...