New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

A paper in the journal Geology describes the method ... scientists have shown that a large earthquake originating on the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea that propagates to the north will ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

Scientists are always eagerly studying it, because it is right on top of the San Andreas fault, and has been called ... so ...