California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles).

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 was not identified until 1895, and it wasn’t until after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that scientists determined the fault ran all the way into Southern California.

Hidden Planet Researchers find why San Andreas fault hasn’t caused a big earthquake in L.A. — yet. Over the past 1,000 years, earthquakes at the southern San Andreas fault occurred when water ...

Part of the San Andreas Fault in southern California may be on shakier ground than previously thought.. The 800-mile-long San Andreas Fault is one of the more famous faults in the United States ...