These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

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 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

Seismologist Lucy Jones finds fault with the disaster film “San Andreas." — -- The movie “San Andreas” opened big at the box office this weekend, but the film’s over-the-top depiction of the ...

There have been around 27 2.5 magnitude or greater earthquakes along or near the San Andreas Fault in California within the last seven days, data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows. The San ...

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. According to ...