A groundbreaking 1,000-year simulation reveals tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults has reached a ...
A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years.
A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, new federal simulations show.
Earthquakes usually occur along fracture zones in Earth's crust, where large tectonic plates slide past one another and ...
San Andreas Fault earthquake risk hits a 1,000-year high, with a new physics-based model finding stress at record levels on ...
The ground north and east of Los Angeles holds one of Southern California’s most uneasy meeting points. At Cajon Pass, the ...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading the way in understanding the effects of electrical faults in the modern U.S. power grid. Faults are abnormal ...
What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...