San Andreas Fault stretches 1,200 km across California, housing quakes up to M 8.3. Experts warn of southern segment’s “Big ...

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles). It separates two tectonic plates sliding against each other, shaping ...

San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. The overall death toll is estimated at 1,800.

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

Scientist knew almost immediately that the Ridgecrest quakes were not on the San Andreas fault. But understanding how those temblors might impact the 730-mile monster capable of producing “The ...

This segment of the San Andreas Fault, in Palmdale, California, lies about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Los Angeles. The image was captured from the Space Shuttle Endeavor on Feb. 11, 2000. SAN ...

The San Andreas fault runs 800 miles up the backbone of California and marks the boundary where two major tectonic plates meet. The fault itself is divided into northern, ...

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water, Lake Cahuilla, was filling or was full with water from ...

The San Andreas Fault cuts a path across Southern California, but the infamous fault has created a string of sparkling lakes known as “sag ponds” along its course.

The San Andreas Fault has three sections. The southern section runs from the Salton Sea to Parkfield, California, and has the capacity for large quakes. In 1857, for example, ...

The San Andreas Fault slipped by as much as 20 feet in this earthquake. Although ground-shaking damage was severe in many places along the nearly 310-mile fault rupture, ...

But the San Andreas Fault has about 150 miles (241 km) of slip between either side, meaning that volcanic rocks in Pinnacles National Park match those much farther south, in Los Angeles County.