A simulation of a plausible major southern San Andreas fault earthquake — a magnitude 7.8 that begins near the Mexican border along the fault plane and unzips all the way to L.A. County's ...

The San Andreas fault, on the other hand, has a major quake once every few hundred years, with the most recent occurring in 1857, thought to be around magnitude 7.8.

Nature - A fault in the ‘weak San Andreas’ theory. Over the past few decades a modern theory of earthquake physics has been developed that is solidly based upon the laws of rock friction 1 ...

A region of the infamous San Andreas Fault could produce an earthquake any day now, scientists suspect. The San Andreas Fault, which is the border section between two huge tectonic plates beneath ...

A third earthquake has rocked San Bernardino after the area was hit by two others earlier, raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault. The US Geological Survey reported ...

The most famous fault in the U.S. is San Andreas.Of course, the seismic overreactions of the film industry certainly help put its name in the minds of the disaster-conscious, but it’s infamy was ...

While California’s 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state.

While California’s 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state.

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles in August was along the Puente Hills fault system, ... and it's far more active than the better-known San Andreas fault that runs through southern California.