In the 70 years before the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas Fault unleashed three earthquakes bigger than magnitude-6 in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Little was known about the San Andreas fault before a massive earthquake struck San Francisco in 1906. But that changed when a team of scientists mapped the fault and produced a report that gave ...

The San Andreas Fault, this scar visible from space, stretches across California for over 1,200 kilometers (about 745 miles). It separates two tectonic plates sliding against each other, shaping ...

San Francisco's big 1906 earthquake was third of a series on San Andreas Fault Date: February 12, 2014 Source: University of Oregon Summary: Geologists have uncovered geologic evidence that ...

A new high-resolution map of a poorly known section of the northern San Andreas Fault reveals signs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and may hold some clues as to how the fault could rupture ...

In 1906, a giant San Andreas Fault earthquake carved a trench through Portola Valley, now a small California village of million-dollar homes tucked in the hills above Stanford University. More ...

Today, visitors to the Earthquake Trail inside Point Reyes National Seashore can see how far the two fences moved from each other on the San Andreas fault line.

More than 100 people, including San Francisco’s leaders and most loyal larks, gathered downtown before sunrise Friday for the annual ceremony commemorating the 1906 morning when a 7.9-magnitude ...

In 1906, a giant San Andreas Fault earthquake carved a trench through Portola Valley, now a small California village of million-dollar homes tucked in the hills above Stanford University. More ...

In this April 18, 1906 photo, the Hibernia Bank building is in ruins following the massive earthquake that devastated the San Francisco area that was caused by a rupture in the San Andreas fault.

A stock photo shows a sing marking the San Andreas Fault. A region of the fault line in California may be about to produce an earthquake, scientists predicted. GaryKavanagh/Getty The last quake in ...

California's rock-and-roll reputation was set more than a century ago, when a devastating earthquake flattened San Francisco in 1906. Afterward, the northern San Andreas Fault, the state's massive ...