Along the remote coast where the San Andreas Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, earthquakes too small for humans to ...
Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...
It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...
What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...
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, ...
Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...
The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and scraping past one another. Over the eons, this activity has regularly caused major ...
Last Monday, April 14, an earthquake caught many people’s attention in Southern California. It was centered near the town of Julian about 35 miles inland from San Diego and triggered the USGS ...