California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

Fault zones often consist of wide, branching networks spanning hundreds of meters, rather than single strands, with multiple strands potentially activated during a single earthquake.

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough ...

Santa Rosa City Schools campuses are being transformed this summer, but two campuses must undergo required earthquake studies ...

Feb. 6, 2024 — The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people ...

“Most faults are actually zones, at different scales,” Dawson said. “In some areas, like in northwestern California where this earthquake occurred, fault zones — it’s very broken up.

A fault zone off the Santa Monica coast could result in a larger, higher magnitude earthquake than previously thought according to a new study. Instead of a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, which is ...

San Jacinto. The San Jacinto Fault Zone is 130 miles long and includes Anza-Borrego Springs and the unincorporated community of Ocotillo Wells in east San Diego County.. Other communities in this ...

Both quakes occurred on the San Andreas, the 800-mile-long fault that traverses California from north to south. The geological survey estimates that there is about a 30 percent chance of a 7.5 ...

"The fault zone has been activated, and it has the capability to trigger additional earthquakes that can be felt by humans, especially because it's so close to major cities along Interstate 20 ...

There are places where splay faults are present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and for those spots, the tsunami risk may not have changed much.