The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike‑slip transform fault stretching roughly 1,200 km in California.

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

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

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In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

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

S outhern California is a well-known hot spot for earthquakes. Residents of the west coast state live in one of the most seismically active regions in the world, an area distinguished by the notorious ...

On the 100th anniversary of the quake that changed the city forever, the clock is ticking for the next Big One.

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook parts of Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Getty Images/iStockphoto An early-morning 3.1-magnitude earthquake woke parts of Southern ...