"The numerical model was able to simulate slip along ... over the Salton Basin – a large pull-apart located on the San Andreas fault, a strike-slip fault, in Southern California," Berne said.

Multiple tremors were recorded by the USGS over the past week, including one which struck as the Oscars ceremony was underway.

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean, about 47 miles west of Petrolia, on the San Andreas fault that spans 800 miles from Cape Mendocino in the north to the Salton Sea in the south. This region ...

"Our new model of the Hayward and Calaveras faults ... Johnson thriller "San Andreas," that a major quake on the San Andreas fault could result in cities crashing to the ground, tsunami waves ...