A Slow-Motion Section Of San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All
The San Andreas Fault is an 800-mile-long sliding tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. …
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L.A.’s Biggest Quake Threat Sits on Overlooked Part of San Andreas, Study Says
Arrows pointing to the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas Fault. (Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast) Par…
San Andreas Fault Earthquake More Likely After Ridgecrest Quakes
The greater Los Angeles area lies near the San Andreas Fault, which researchers said Monday is at greater risk for an ear…
Earthquakes Happen Every 3 Minutes in Southern California, Study Shows
The San Andreas Fault system, which stretches more than 800 miles in California, causes a powerful earthquake about…
Geoscientists Find Unexpected 'Deep Creep' Near San Andreas, San Jacinto Faults
A cartoon showing how anomalous earthquakes near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in southern California work in re…
Site of the Next Major Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?
Map showing the faults and uplifting late Cenozoic basin fill (gray) of southeastern California. A larger version is avai…
'Slow Earthquakes' on San Andreas Fault Increase Risk of Large Quakes
The southern San Andreas Fault slices across the Carrizo Plain in California. Both the northern and southern sections of …
Study: East Bay Fault Is 'Tectonic Time Bomb,' More Dangerous Than San Andreas
Everyone knows that California’s San Andreas fault is a ticking time bomb ready to erupt – but a new study shows that …
California Fault Could Cause Magnitude-7.4 Quake
A schematic block model of Southern California showing the motion of the Pacific and North American plates, and the big b…
USGS Study Finds New Evidence of San Andreas Fault Earthquakes
This Temblor map shows three of the sections of the Southern San Andreas Fault. This new study took place in the Big Bend…
