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 passes close to most big cities in California. For instance, researchers found that the fault produces a magnitude 6.0 earthquake approximately once every 22 years.

San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that spans a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometres) through California, United States. The fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault, marks a ...

The San Andreas fault. There are faults of different types and sizes; however, one of the most important ones is the San Andreas fault, for being one of the largest of its kind. It crosses from north ...

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 ...

Includes bibliographies The San Andreas fault in southern California / John C. Crowell -- Seismicity along the San Andreas fault, southern California / James A. Hileman and Thomas C. Hanks -- ...

The southern San Andreas, part of a network of faults that run across California, has the most potential for destruction because of the large number of people who live in the area — 10 million ...

The San Andreas fault stretches for over 800 miles through California’s coastal regions. In the southern part of California, the fault ends near Bombay Beach, in the Salton Sea.

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 ...