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The San Andreas Fault: Facts about the crack in California's crust that could unleash the 'Big One'

The San Andreas Fault is California's longest and most famous fault. At this fracture zone, two plates of Earth's crust move past each other. It stretches from the Salton Sea in Southern California to ...
OPB

Cascadia earthquake could trigger seismic activity on San Andreas Fault, OSU study suggests

The threat of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone has hung over the Pacific Northwest for decades. Seismologists and emergency managers say “The Big One” could be one of the ...
The New York Times

One ‘Really Big One’ After Another

The disaster caused by a predicted large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could be compounded by shaking along the San Andreas fault in California, scientists warned. By Sarah Scoles In the world’s ...
The Spokesman-Review

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

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, ...
Los Angeles Times

West Coast’s two monster faults could trigger back-to-back earthquakes, new research suggests

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. New research suggests the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...
The Washington Post

Myanmar just had ‘the big one.’ It should be a wake-up call for California.

For more than a century, stress was mounting across a section of an 800-mile-long crack in Myanmar. Known as the Sagaing Fault, the crack ran between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which ...