Experts claim that the next big US quake will also occur along the San Andreas fault, where many of the biggest earthquakes in U.S. history have been recorded. In fact, the United States Geological ...

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While most people immediately think of the San Andreas Fault when it comes to potential seismic disasters in the United States, there’s another fault line that has recently been gaining more attention ...

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Another 2.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Tennessee on July 9 around 8:52 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.

Many of California's faults, including the southern portion of the San Andreas, are overdue, Mouslopoulou said. She and her colleagues wanted to compare this overdue pattern to the patterns in ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and believe more people should know about.

On Thursday night, three earthquakes were detected near California's deadliest fault line the San Andres Fault, according to records from the United States Geographic Survey.