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

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

A huge earthquake caused by the San Andreas Fault is long overdue and continues to cause concern... A picture shows residents overlooking downtown San Francisco as fires breakout across the city ...

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas Fault, where large earthquakes regularly occur, may be primed to shake again any day now, according to a new study. The area around ...

The southern San Andreas fault in California is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. New research shows the lack of seismic activity may be due to the drying ...

By Thomas Fuller It has been about three centuries since the last great earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault, the most treacherous seismic hazard in California. For decades researchers ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck Parkfield in Monterey County Wednesday afternoon.The quake hit at 3:56 p.m. and was ...

Several earthquakes with epicenters beneath the ocean surface rattled the Northern California coastline early Monday. The quakes occurred off the shore of Humboldt County and were all located roughly ...

The southern San Andreas fault in California is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. New research shows the lack of seismic activity may be due to the drying ...