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Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.
An arid expanse of California desert at the southern end of the notorious San Andreas Fault is being wired with high-tech sensors that scientists hope will tell them when the state's sleeping giant could awaken.
The "Big One," as earthquake scientists imagine it in a detailed, first-of-its-kind script, unzips California's mighty San Andreas Fault north of the Mexican border. In less than two minutes, Los Angeles and its sprawling suburbs are shaking like a bowl of jelly.
A team of scientists on Thursday showed off the first rock samples taken from a borehole being drilled into the mighty San Andreas Fault to better understand how earthquakes are born.
It's the California earthquake hardly anyone has heard of — strong enough to rip 225 miles of the San Andreas Fault and make rivers run backward, but leaving nothing like the cultural scar inflicted by the San Francisco Quake of 1906.
New earthquake research confirms the southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles is overdue for a Big One. The lower section of the fault has not produced a major earthquake in more than three centuries.
Tremors Point to a Stressed-Out Stretch of the San Andreas FaultIn a central California area with a history of dramatic earthquakes, researchers have detected a worrisome amount of seismic activity deep underground.
Disaster Earthquake Scenario Unveiled For Southern CaliforniaScientists have unveiled a hypothetical Scenario describing how a magnitude 7.8 Southern California earthquake -similar to the recent earthquake in China- would impact the region, causing loss of lives and massive damage to infrastructure, including critical transportation, power …
Pacific Northwest quakes may trigger temblors in CaliforniaA study says that over the past 3,000 years, most big quakes on the San Andreas fault have been preceded by one on the Northwest's Cascadia fault. When the Cascadia fault rocks, the San Andreas fault rolls.
'Earthquake rocks' see daylightFor the first time, rocks have been extracted from California's San Andreas Fault by scientists drilling some three kilometres below the surface. They say this new material may answer a number of long-standing questions about the fault's composition and properties.
Geologists recover rocks yielding unprecedented insights into San Andreas FaultFor the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length of California.
Los Angeles in an earthquake lullA California researcher says Los Angeles is in the midst of a 1,000-year seismic lull characterized by relatively small and infrequent earthquakes.
San Andreas Fault May Be Rare Quake Some faults can send earthquakes zooming along the ground faster than the speed of sound, scientists say—and California's San Andreas Fault may be one of them.
Let's call it Area One. It's the 600-mile radius around the Yellowstone Caldera. Bill McGuire, professor of geohazards at University College London, considers a 600-mile radius to be deadly space during even a minimal supereruption.
The Next Great EarthquakeThe 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami are now infamous for the damage they caused, but at the time many scientists believed this area was unlikely to create a quake of such magnitude.
Scientists Explain Source Of Mysterious Tremors Emanating From Fault ZonesGet ready for a big one.
The only thing worse than listening to Frank deFord deliver sports commentary is eating two Klonopins and still having to deal with the demon tap dancing on my chest in the middle of the night.
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