The San Jacinto Fault, considered part of the San Andreas Fault system, has a 5% chance of magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquakes. The line begins at Cajun Pass and runs southeast through San Bernardino, ...

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...

Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective consciousness.

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could cause the San Andreas fault in California to go off. “It would be a very ...

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the ...

A third earthquake has rocked San Bernardino after the area was hit by two others earlier, raising fears of a serious seismic incident on the San Andreas fault. The US Geological Survey reported the ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

The clusters of earthquakes have all been underneath the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, which is close to the Calaveras fault. There were at least 19 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or greater on Monday ...

There’s not much better in life, as far as I’ve discovered, than sitting outside on a deck over the water at one of the renovated fishermen’s shacks at Nick’s Cove, an inn and restaurant on Northern ...