One of the key factors in preparing for the “Big One,” the next massive earthquake in California, is estimating “slip rate,” the speed at which one side of the San Andreas Fault is moving past the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State University researchers using a new laser-imaging technique hope to draw new maps of the San Andreas fault that could help scientists better predict earthquakes in ...

An effort to map offshore portions of the San Andreas fault could help scientists better understand past earthquakes -- and the potential for future ones. For the first time, scientists are using ...

According to the USGS, the real threat comes from smaller (about magnitude 7) earthquakes occurring on the Hayward fault, the Peninsula segment of the San Andreas ... in on the map below and ...

Main image, a map of Los Angeles. Inset, an image showing earthquake tremors. The Puente Hills thrust fault system may be more dangerous to LA than the San Andreas fault. Main image, a map of Los ...

Part of the San Andreas Fault in ... Figure A is a map of the Mission Creek strand, Banning strand, Garnet Hill strand, and the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone. The slip rate of the fault strands ...

If you live near, say, California’s San Andreas ... used a 2018 map from the U.S. Geological Survey that determined regional earthquake risk levels “based on seismicity and fault-slip rates ...

Scientists found the fault could produce a quake of a magnitude comparable to one from the San Andreas fault ... “Rather than one line in the map, we could see a rupture [series] that could ...

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

The model itself is highly complicated, but a color-coded map that was generated with ... “Everyone is aware how earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault work. We don’t understand how all ...

As seismologists review available data, they often revise the earthquake's reported magnitude and update shake-severity maps ... both occurred along the San Andreas fault, said Robert Skoumal ...