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 banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Since the formation of the San Andreas Fault system 25-30 million years ago, the juxtaposition of the Pacific and North American plates has formed many faults in California that accommodate ...

Geology ; California ; Earthquake Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom: 'New Way of Understanding' Published Jun 10, 2024 at 12:22 PM ... A photo shows the location of the San Andreas fault.

Fault along California coast could unleash earthquake on scale of San Andreas, study shows Sept. 23, 2022 Updated Fri., Sept. 23, 2022 at 9:57 p.m. An aerial view of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

Ironically, over that same period there has emerged a view that, alone among crustal faults, California's San Andreas fault grossly violates those laws, ... M. D. Geology 28, 399–403 (2000).

Mr. Hill and his co-authors found that major earthquakes along the southern San Andreas fault tended to happen when a large body of water, Lake Cahuilla, was filling or was full with water from ...

Researchers find why San Andreas fault hasn’t caused a big earthquake in L.A. — yet Over the past 1,000 years, earthquakes at the southern San Andreas fault occurred when water levels of a ...

Fault along Southern California coast could unleash earthquake on scale of San Andreas, study shows. Earlier estimates said the fault zone could generate up to a magnitude 7.4 shaker.