A 2008 U.S. Geological Survey report warned that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault would cause more than 1,800 deaths, 50,000 injuries, $200 billion in damage and severe ...

The southern part of the San Andreas fault is "locked, loaded and ready to roll," according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center. Jordan issued the warning ...

Remote sections along California’s massive San Andreas ... fault line that causes “very simple geometry and behavior” Malagnini wrote in the study. South of Parkfield, the fault is locked ...

a fault is considered locked and stress will build until it is released by an earthquake. This study estimates how much creep occurs on each section of the San Andreas Fault system in Northern ...

Of course, the reiteration of the seismic hazard to Californians will be nothing surprising, but what is new is the warning that the southern portion of the fault "looks like it's locked ...

“The San Andreas fault is locked, loaded and ready to roll ... when the southern portion of the fault was struck by a 7.9 shaker all the way back in 1857. Since then the tectonic plates that ...

That's how Tom Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, describes the current state of the San Andreas fault. At yesterday's National Earthquake Conference in Long Beach ...

South of Parkfield, the fault is locked, meaning the two plates do not move against one another. North of Parkfield, the San Andreas fault moves freely, with the plates creeping against one ...

His team of researchers studied the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault and found that quakes ... While the faultline is locked in the south of Parkfield, it moves freely in the north ...

Parkfield in California is no stranger to an earthquake – it sits on the San ... a part of the fault where plates can move against each other ("creeping") and a part where they can’t ("locked").

The southern part of the San Andreas fault is "locked, loaded and ready to roll," according to Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center. Jordan issued the warning ...