The San Andreas fault line caused destruction and distinction in California. Ray Isle offers an itinerary to explore the ...

A USGS map shows where in California 2.5 magnitude (or greater) earthquakes were recorded in the last seven days—the San Andreas Fault is represented as a thick red line. A USGS map shows where ...

That fault plays a starring role in the 1978 movie "Superman," with an aerial image of it in a sparsely populated area. Despite its rural location, the southern San Andreas fault is considered ...

San Francisco: A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 shook the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday evening, according to ...

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.

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...