San Andreas Fault

For years, people who live in inland California say that one day they’ll have beachfront property when the “Big One” hits. Is that so far from the truth? The problem is, no matter how much equipment and advanced technology geologists and seismologists use to track plate activity, they can only…

The state of California has been dubbed “earthquake country” thanks to an infamous 800–mile–long crack otherwise known as the San Andreas Fault that travels along the state from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north. Earthquakes occur daily in California because there are thousands of…