New research is raising fresh questions about the San Andreas Fault. Scientists at San Jose State University said a stretch ...

An aerial view shows a portion of the San Andreas fault in the Sierra Madre Mountains between Bakersfield and Santa Barbara, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California's earthquake time bomb may be ticking faster than scientists realized. Just a week after a magnitude 3.9 quake rattled ...

When people think about geological faults, they usually think about earthquakes. Yet faults do not move only during earthquakes. Sometimes they slip silently, without generating noticeable shaking, ...

Back-to-back earthquakes rocked the area north of Los Angeles near two of California’s most significant faults — including the mighty San Andreas — sending shock waves across the region. The first ...

A swarm of minor earthquakes struck northern California near the San Andreas Fault, with experts warning the region remains at high risk for a major quake in the coming years.

A study of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake showed how fault shape affects shaking and may improve modeling of a possible major earthquake on California’s San Andreas Fault.

California’s earthquake time bomb may be ticking faster than scientists realized. Just a week after a magnitude 3.9 quake rattled Oakland’s Hayward Fault, researchers at San Jose State University have ...