The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike‑slip transform fault stretching roughly 1,200 km in California.

Bodega Head peninsula stands as the area’s geological masterpiece—a granite headland jutting dramatically into the Pacific, ...

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

The quake's epicenter was recorded 2.49 miles south of Julian, in San Diego County. According to the USGS map, the quake was felt widely across Southern California and into Mexico.

I wasn’t going to follow the San Andreas all the way to where it petered out near Southern California’s Salton Sea, but the final leg of my fault jaunt did take me to entirely different terrain.

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 ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles was rattled by a 4.4 ...

In Southern California, the last major earthquake on the San Andreas fault was in 1857, estimated at somewhere around a magnitude 7.8. But even moderate quakes along the Puente Hills thrust fault ...

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 ...

The southern section of California’s San Andreas fault hasn’t experienced a major earthquake in 300 years, and is around a century overdo for a “big one.” To understand this earthquake ...