San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, aerial view from 8,500 feet altitude. By Ikluft (own work) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. The overall death toll is estimated at 1,800.

The San Andreas Fault is about 746 miles (1,200 km) long and about 10 miles (16 km) deep. While the San Andreas is a giant fault that is even visible from space, if you zoom in, you'll see a ...

Scientist knew almost immediately that the Ridgecrest quakes were not on the San Andreas fault. But understanding how those temblors might impact the 730-mile monster capable of producing “The ...

The San Andreas fault runs 800 miles up the backbone of California and marks the boundary where two major tectonic plates meet. The fault itself is divided into northern, ...

Southern California’s section of the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded and ready to roll,” a leading earthquake scientist said Wednesday at the National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach.

This segment of the San Andreas Fault, in Palmdale, California, lies about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Los Angeles. The image was captured from the Space Shuttle Endeavor on Feb. 11, 2000. SAN ...

SACRAMENTO, California — There are countless fault lines on the West Coast of the United States and movement along two of the longest known faults can be catastrophic. The Cascadia Subduction ...

The San Andreas Fault slipped by as much as 20 feet in this earthquake. Although ground-shaking damage was severe in many places along the nearly 310-mile fault rupture, ...

The San Andreas Fault is the border section between two massive tectonic plates under the surface of the Earth—the Pacific and North American plates.. It stretches almost 800 miles through ...

But the San Andreas Fault has about 150 miles (241 km) of slip between either side, meaning that volcanic rocks in Pinnacles National Park match those much farther south, in Los Angeles County.

Red Jeep Tour of the San Andreas Fault in Palm Springs. Departing from parking lot in East Palm Springs all loaded into a bright red jeep, we tumbled along the paved road until it ended in dirt.