This movement is known as ... At the heart of the San Andreas Fault’s seismic activity lies the relentless motion of tectonic plates. The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are ...

The Julian earthquake is worth closer examination not for its size or damage (there was very little), but for a demonstration ...

California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the risk of earthquakes hitting San Diego County specifically lies on the fact ...

The earthquakes are a result of the Northern Pacific and North American plates rubbing ... racing by feeling a small movement come from the ground. The San Andreas Fault can even be seen during ...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego at 10:08 a.m. Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's ...

Movement along the San Andreas Fault was to blame. The North American and Pacific tectonic plates had moved past each other by more than 15 feet — compared to an annual average of two inches.

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults—some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's collective consciousness.

To understand the importance of this movement ... same two plates is being ejected towards the east, thanks in part to the Sagaing fault. As far as faults are concerned, the San Andreas Fault ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A boundary where the plates slide past one another without ... An example of this type of boundary is the San Andreas fault, California.