What's clear from the study is that while California's next "Big One" may share some characteristics of previously documented ...

The USGS reported a small earthquake in Woodside on Tuesday afternoon. The temblor measured 2.5 on the Richter Scale.

Myanmar's Sagaing Fault ruptured more than 124 miles (200 km) farther than seismologists had predicted. California should take notice.

When a magnitude 7. 7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological ...

A new study from CalTech sheds light on the behavior of the Sagaing Fault, which is very similar to the San Andreas Fault.

Simulations still can't predict exactly when an earthquake will happen, but with the incredible processing power of modern ...

The massive 2025 Myanmar earthquake revealed that strike slip faults can behave in surprising ways. Using satellite data, ...

Earthquakes can wreak havoc on day-to-day life if you're on the ground, but is there any threat to those who are in an ...

Scientists link a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that shook Humboldt Bay, California, 71 years ago to the "locked" Cascadia ...

The San Andreas Fault is about 746 miles (1,200 km) long and about 10 miles (16 km) deep. While the San Andreas is a giant fault that is even visible from space, if you zoom in, you'll see a ...

Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and other natural disasters, public health and extreme ...

Reaching the San Andreas Fault, we were all surprised to see it was hardly visible – at least not directly. We were actually standing in the middle of it, hundreds of yards wide in either direction.