but is generally considered to be a magnitude 8 (+/-) event on the plate boundary fault, which is the San Andreas Fault. "The stress on this fault builds up with time since the last major earthquake.

Los Angeles is located south of a giant a bend in the San Andreas fault where the plate boundary clearly changes direction. "If you see it from the air, it's amazing," says Jones. "It's so bizarre ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ... takeaway is that the subduction zone plate boundary contains much more foliated, damaged ...