Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 ...

California recently broke ground on a large restoration project in the Salton Sea that expands efforts to improve conditions ...

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

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 ...

The same forces that have made this one of the world's most epic roads could be what causes its obliteration, says UC Santa ...

Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes.

NBC 7 takes you inside the science behind earthquakes, the technology for early alerts, and teaches you the measures you can take to protect your property, and how to prepare before a major earthquake ...

California is no stranger to earthquakes. In fact, California's largest fault, the San Andreas Fault, runs right through Kern County. While there’s no telling exactly when the "big one" will ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

The San Andreas Fault extends about 800 miles from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. This geological feature has been responsible for some of the most devastating earthquakes in the state's ...