While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles).

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

A magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck Parkfield in Monterey County Wednesday afternoon.The quake hit at 3:56 p.m. and was ...

A fault map of the southern part of the State shows the three parallel faults — the Elsinore fault furthest west, the San Jacinto fault about 20-30 miles to the east, and the main San Andreas ...

The quake's epicenter was recorded 2.49 miles south of Julian, in San Diego County. According to the USGS map, ... which is a branch of the larger San Andreas Fault system.

The famed San Andreas Fault in California is nearly identical to the one that caused last week’s destructive tremor in Myanmar, and is also overdue for an earthquake.

The fault's location makes it dangerous, and it's far more active than the better-known San Andreas fault that runs through southern California.

While California's 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state.

While California’s 750-mile-long San Andreas Fault is notorious, experts believe a smaller fault line possesses a greater threat to lives and property in the southern part of the state.

Despite its rural location, the southern San Andreas fault is considered quite dangerous, mostly because of its massive size and capability to bring strong, destructive shaking to a huge swath of ...