Recalling the time that some predicted California would be struck by a massive earthquake and fall into the Pacific Ocean. Could it really happen?

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...

we’re quick to lay the blame on the San Andreas Fault. But not last week. The “-tec-” in the word “architecture” derives from a Greek word for “build”. “-tec-” shows up, too, in “plate tectonics”, the ...

There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...

operate a little bit differently than the San Andreas fault system in California, which is on a tectonic plate boundary. Every little bit of information from these earthquakes will be analyzed to ...

Earthquakes in Tennessee aren’t in headlines every day. Last week, Tennessee recorded several earthquakes. While the quakes ...

It’s what we call a transform plate boundary, like the San Andreas fault system, where the relative motion between the two plates is horizontal, like cars moving on a British highway.

The San Andreas Fault, spanning California’s coast, marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. Known for major earthquakes like the 1906 San Francisco quake ...

UCR geologist and lead author Nic Barth at the Alpine Fault. The Australian Plate is to the left ... where anticipating the direction of a quake on faults like San Andreas or San Jacinto could mean a ...

At a plate boundary, two plates move relative to each other, and this movement can cause earthquakes. The San Andreas fault – which stretches for roughly 750 miles in California – is the boundary ...

For example, scientists have shown that a large earthquake originating on the San Andreas fault near the Salton Sea that propagates to the north will direct more damaging energy into the Los ...