Next spring, scientists from the US Geological Survey will go where no one has gone before: 2.2 miles into the San Andreas Fault. SAFOD, the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth project, will ...
A region of the infamous San Andreas Fault could produce an earthquake any day now, scientists suspect. The San Andreas Fault, which is the border section between two huge tectonic plates beneath ...
What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...
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A little-known fault caused the East Bay's earthquake swarm. Here's what it's capable of
On Sunday morning, the East Bay experienced an earthquake swarm: what one scientist called a unique pattern or "staccato" of ...
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, but one consistent earthquake in California—which rumbles every 22 years—provides valuable data for finding warning signs of an impending quake. This ...
Monday’s magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered four miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles was modest but packed quite a jolt. Although no major damage was reported, experts say the temblor was in the ...
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 ...
The geometric structure of rocks where earthquakes occur could play a key role in determining their location and strength, researchers have found. A study, carried out by geologists at Brown ...
A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault known for being eerily similar to California’s notorious San Andreas fault.
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