San Andreas Fault reaches highest stress level in millennium, study warns

Potential for significant casualties and infrastructure damage if a major earthquake occurs along the San Andreas Fault.

Beneath California's cities and coastlines, the Earth has been keeping a slow, patient account — and a new study from the University of Hawai'i suggests that account is now fuller than it has been in a thousand years. Researchers have found that stress along the San Andreas Fault has reached historically unprecedented levels, the product of tectonic forces that have been quietly accumulating since the last great rupture. This is not a prophecy of imminent disaster, but it is a reminder that the ground beneath human civilization operates on its own timeline — one that does not pause for the 40

San Andreas Fault reaches highest stress level in millennium, study warns

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