Stress on San Andreas Fault reaches highest levels in 1,000 years as scientists await next ‘major rupture’

The San Andreas Fault and San Jacinto Fault Zone have reached their highest stress levels in 1,000 years, according to a ...

San Andreas Fault stress hits 1,000-year high in Southern California

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are in a “critically loaded” state, with stress levels that ...

San Andreas Fault stress hits 1,000-year high, raising quake risk

Scientists say the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are more stressed than at any time in 1,000 years, raising questions ...
IFLScience

The San Andreas Fault Is Under More Stress Than Ever Before

Case in point: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which killed thousands of people, destroyed more than 80 percent of the ...
Forbes

Cascadia Megaquake Could Trigger Earthquake On The San Andreas Fault

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...
Live Science

Link between Cascadia and San Andreas Fault earthquakes discovered 30 years after lost vessel stumbled across key data

A "Big One" on the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest might trigger a similarly serious earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault, new research suggests. The findings are based on ...
Scientific American

New Clues Suggest San Andreas and Cascadia Faults May Produce Synchronized Earthquakes

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

West Coast’s two monster faults could trigger back-to-back earthquakes, new research suggests

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. New research suggests the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...
Phys.org

The next 'Big One' on the San Andreas fault might not be the earthquake we expect, researchers say

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...
Los Angeles Times

The next ‘Big One’ on the San Andreas fault might not be the earthquake we expect, researchers say

A new report studied a massive earthquake that ruptured in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar on March 28 — on a fault known for being eerily similar to California’s notorious San Andreas fault.
Rolling Stone

20 Years Ago, ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ Perfectly Re-Created Nineties Los Angeles

The camera finally settles behind CJ’s shoulders. We’re in an alley with a small bike leaning against a brick wall, maybe somewhere between Dre’s Compton and Snoop’s Long Beach. Samuel L. Jackson ...
Inverse

20 Years Ago, Rockstar Made The Most Influential Open-World Game Of All-Time

It’s hard to believe that in three short years, Rockstar Games popularized and perfected the open-world video game. In 2001, Grand Theft Auto III successfully translated the top-down chaos of the ...