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, ...

Seafloor cores record underwater avalanches of mud and sand, known as turbidity currents, as stacked layers called turbidites ...

Two of the most dangerous fault systems on the U.S. West Coast may be more connected than scientists once thought. New ...

If you live in Southern California, there is an ever-present fear about the inevitable “Big One,” the quake that seismologists say is coming, it’s just a matter of time. You're reading the Essential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released in 2015, the movie San Andreas exploded onto screens as a massive disaster spectacle focused on California’s famous San ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

A San Andreas fault mystery: The ‘slow-moving disaster’ in area where the Big One is feared Oct. 31, 2018 7:18 PM PT California Advertisement ...