When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...

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 ...

In earthquake country, the meandering paths of quake faults easily get seared into memory in the same way as a California freeway map. An earthquake fault is a fracture in the ground between two ...

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, ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For more than a month, the Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes, rattling windows and raising fears across California.

A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred about 2.5 miles south Julian, California, at 10:08 a.m. April 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Noticeable shaking could be felt across the Southern ...

Released in 2015, the movie San Andreas exploded onto screens as a massive disaster spectacle focused on California’s famous San Andreas Fault. Directed by Brad Peyton, the film featured a ...

The quakes come as California sees the effects of an atmospheric river that has caused flash flooding, rescues, and ...