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

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 southern part of the San Andreas fault is "locked, loaded and ready to roll," according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.

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

New fault discovered in southern California near the San Andreas By Rob Verger , Fox News Published October 7, 2016 12:32pm EDT | Updated October 7, 2016 1:28pm EDT ...

Two of Southern California's most active faults could rupture together in a magnitude-7.5 earthquake, according to a new study, raising a grim seismic scenario for communities east of Los Angeles.

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.

"The San Andreas fault in southern California last had a major quake in 1857 (magnitude 7.9)," explains Robert Graves, a Research Geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in an email ...

The San Andreas fault may be the villain in Hollywood's latest blockbuster disaster movie, but geologists say offshore faults pose a bigger threat to California, according to a new study.

Scientists are trying to determine if the newly-named Salton Trough Fault may be the reason why there hasn't been a major earthquake on that part of the San Andreas Fault for the last 300 years ...

LOS ANGELES -- The massive devastation in Nepal has spiked many people's fears about a similar disaster striking in earthquake-prone Southern California. The official death toll in Nepal soared ...

The southern part of the San Andreas fault is "locked, loaded and ready to roll," according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.