What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

A newly identified link between two notorious geologic zones suggests a major earthquake at one site could trigger another ...

The San Andreas fault could trigger the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. And it could happen at any time. A recent study draws lessons from a devastating earthquake in Myanmar to better ...

Although Californians are relatively familiar with the San Andreas Fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is in many ways more dangerous. That fault, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is subsiding underneath ...

A study of March's Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don't necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger quake than any seen before.

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

LOS ANGELES — What could the next mega-earthquake on California’s notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the ...