The San Andreas Fault, that famous fracture in the Earth’s crust that has shaped so much of California’s landscape, runs through the region. The mountains you see from the overlook have been pushed up ...

Millions of people took part in the Great California ShakeOut drill for a simulated earthquake designed to encourage disaster ...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have analyzed signals generated by the vibrations of traffic along ...

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

Two of the biggest fault lines in the world are synched together in a way that could lead to disastrous consequences, ...

Nearly a million San Diego County residents participated Thursday in this year's Great California ShakeOut, the statewide ...

Dwayne Johnson as Raymond Gaines in San Andreas Image via Warner Bros. Dwayne Johnson, aka "The Rock," is earning plaudits ...

An earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Though this was one of the most powerful and destructive earthquakes ...

Pete Kelsey's digital twin project creates most comprehensive 3D map of Alcatraz using drones, LiDAR, and reality capture tech.

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

The most widespread way is through Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), which sends loud alerts to all cellphones. If an ...

At San Fernando Middle School, students were evacuated from classrooms and went to the “safety” of their playing field.