Stress accumulating in the southern San Andreas fault. (Burkhard et. al., J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 2026) It's called ...

The National Science Foundation funded work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could change the way we conceptualize oceanic transform faults. The Gofar fault ...

Scientists have warned that last year’s Ridgecrest quakes in Southern California have increased the risk of a major San Andreas Fault earthquake. The quakes, warn catastrophe modeling company Temblor, ...

A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years.

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are in a “critically loaded” state, with stress levels that ...

The San Andreas Fault, long embedded in California’s public imagination, has once again drawn scientific attention after new ...

The middle section of the San Andreas Fault may have the capacity to host larger earthquakes than previously believed. Between the towns of Parkfield and Hollister, the famous California fault ...

The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in ...

A study of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, published in Science, found that seemingly “simple” faults can behave in surprisingly complex ways. Small differences in how parts of a fault move over time may ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the zone ...

A new twist on the San Andreas fault could shake up southern Californians preparing for the Big One. The southern San Andreas isn’t vertical in most places, as previously thought. Instead, it twists ...

It's impossible to know when the San Andreas Fault will erupt with its next big earthquake — a temblor that could impact the nearly 13 million people who live in the Los Angeles metro area — but it ...