There is no easy explanation for how the San Andreas fault, responsible for some of America's most powerful earthquakes, has ...

Record stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults could trigger a major earthquake around Los Angeles.

The San Andreas fault's prolonged silence has led to increased tectonic strain, raising concerns about a potential large ...

Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County at the Mendocino Triple Junction. It is where the San Andreas fault system ...

The San Andreas Fault, which stretches roughly 800 miles across California, hasn’t triggered a major quake in decades, and ...

Scientists say the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are more stressed than at any time in 1,000 years, raising questions about future California quakes.

Back-to-back earthquakes rocked the area north of Los Angeles near two of California's most significant faults — including ...

Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide ...

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are in a “critically loaded” state, with stress levels that could support large earthquakes.

Scientists have found evidence that a major Cascadia earthquake could trigger a second quake on the San Andreas Fault. The discovery came from unusual sediment layers formed by underwater landslides ...

When people think about geological faults, they usually think about earthquakes. Yet faults do not move only during ...

Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two massive earthquake pulses on June 24, 2026, just seconds apart. The shaking from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 events caused buildings to collapse in ...