The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...

The Elsinore fault can be thought of as a sibling of the San Andreas, along with the sizable San Jacinto fault, said Kate Scharer, research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. The San ...

Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said this earthquake is likely associated with the Elsinore Fault, which is a branch of the larger San Andreas Fault system. Jones said the depth of the quake was about ...

The magnitude 5.2 earthquake that shook most of Southern California on Monday did not result in any reported injuries or ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so ...

More than 100 people, including San Francisco’s leaders and most loyal larks, gathered downtown before sunrise Friday for the annual ceremony commemorating the 1906 morning when a 7.9 magnitude ...

S2: Um , this is actually something like a smaller sibling of the San Andreas Fault zone , which is this really dangerous , large , um , fault that we have a very close eye on. It's closer to our ...

The stresses at those plates are high, or pulling apart, or sliding next to each other, like the San Andreas fault is a plate boundary between the North American and Pacific plates. These create ...

One of the most well-known examples is the San Andreas Fault in California, where the Pacific Plate and North American Plate grind past one another. Each type of fault line represents a different ...