The San Andreas Fault, a notorious tectonic boundary known for producing devastating earthquakes, is showing signs that many experts believe warrant serious attention.

Map showing the area of the San Andreas Fault that the researchers studied. Rebecca Dzombak. In their research, the team looked at historical records of earthquakes in the region stretching back ...

The San Andreas Fault is the line between the Pacific Plate (which is oceanic) and the North American Plate (which is a land or continental plate), and it’s a transform boundary.

Scientists studying the San Andreas fault in California will soon be able to monitor seismic activity from deep inside the Earth's crust so they can identify patterns that might foreshadow a major ...

RIDGEMARK (KRON)– A 3.3 earthquake happened at 7:19 a.m this morning near Ridgemark, California. Ridgemark is part of San Benito County near Hollister. KRON 4 called USGS to confirm this ...

The most well-known examples is the San Andreas Fault in California. Each type of fault line represents a different kind of stress—tension, compression, or shear—acting on the Earth’s crust.

The San Andreas fault is longer than thought, say geologists. Satellite images show that mud pots and miniature volcanoes in the southeastern part of California’s Imperial County are not ...

Even though the San Andreas fault, the main boundary fault between the Pacific and the North American plates, is the most studied fault in the world, scientists are only slowly unearthing its ...

The San Andreas fault, which triggered the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the deadly fires that followed, runs from the Southern California desert to northern California and marks the boundary ...

The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. ... Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.