The Unseen Power Beneath Our Feet Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of incredible power. The Earth’s crust is a dynamic ...

Ray Isle explores the distinctive character of some of California’s best wines at stops along a destructive fault line.There’s not much better in life, as far as I’ve discovered, than sitting outside ...

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.

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean, about 47 miles west of Petrolia, on the San Andreas fault that spans 800 miles from Cape Mendocino in the north to the Salton Sea in the south. This region ...

As far as faults are concerned, the San Andreas Fault in the US is a benchmark ... It is necessary to talk about a "site effect" to explain why this event was felt with such intensity 1,000 ...

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.