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

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

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

If the rocks of the fault show signs of rupturing every 150 years and it's been 200 years since the last earthquake, that quake is said to be "overdue." Many of California's faults, including the ...

Hollywood Sign - Los Angeles The most recent predictions from USGS looked at a magnitude 7.8 earthquake along the San Andreas Fault originating right in Los Angeles, a city of 3.8 million people. ...

Although the 800-mile San Andreas Fault has been the focal point of most seismic studies in California, researchers fear the Hayward Fault is now overdue in delivering an earthquake greater than 7 ...

Notably, earthquakes are clustered along the San Andreas Fault with the size of the shape corresponding to the magnitude of the event. The cubes shown are for non-earthquake incidents.

The San Andreas fault line struck again during the 6.9 magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, killing 63 people and causing an estimated $6 billion in damage.

The most infamous of these, the San Andreas fault line, runs through the San Francisco peninsula and was responsible for an estimated 7.7 magnitude earthquake that leveled San Francisco in 1906. The ...

One thing I learned as a sports reporter is cutting off your nose to spite your face never works.  Never. You simply do not ...