Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state’s collective ...

They emphasized the need to model faults in three dimensions, as fault width influences earthquake behavior, energy distribution, and how we interpret ancient seismic events. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world ...

The temblor was detected near Julian, California. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's ...

Also well-known in L.A. is the Newport-Inglewood fault, which unleashed the 1933 Long Beach earthquake—the deadliest temblor in Southern California's modern history.