About an hour and a half away. Last Summer I was at a music show on the second story of a building and all of a sudden things started to shake. I thought a truck had crashed into us and I couldn't understand why the jolt was taking so long to stop. A few of my friends and I ran downstairs to see what people were doing, but no one on the street even noticed! It wasn't until the next day that news of the earthquake was confirmed in the paper.

Oh yes...I can tell where the deeply buried San Andreas is by the lines of Palm oases on the hills just on the other side of Interstate 10. There is stored water approximately over the fault and the palms live on this water. These fault indicators, the palm oases, are surrounded by desert sands, they are easy to spot from a distance.

I live about 5 miles from the San Andreas. However, there is a web of many tiny subsidiary faults. These faults move frequently. Whenever I feel a tremor, I go to the USGS web site to the "Did you Feel It?" page and report what I felt. The shake maps on that site are cool. The San Andreas in my area is about 60 feet under. Quakes happen weekly. We are about 150 years overdue for the 'Big one" along this portion of the San Andreas. With luck, the stored tension will be released by a series of small quakes, rather than one giant release of tension.

Southern illinois border .
few years ago years moved.
It is predicted a bigger one will strike.

Ours is about 5 minutes east of me on the Wasatch Front mountains. We are WAY over due for a very large earthquake here. The fault is always moving a tiny bit, but nothing major here in recorded human history here. That is quite a long time.

The nearest fault is the San Andreas, and it's about five miles to the west of where I live. It last moved significantly in 1989, but I feel little quakes all the time, about three days ago to be exact. I know the fault's location by the geology to the south, where a clear line is visible from several high points.

near Lisbon. 1755

The nearest earthquake fault to my home is approximately 15 miles. Annually there are small seismic events along this fault but that last major earthquake (>6 on Richter scale) was in 1935.

Helena sits on an earthquake fault. It last moved less than a month ago. We have frequent earthquakes in Montana, but they are rarely felt because of our low population and the low intensity of the quakes.

Under the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal. It last moved when Shell pumped waste into the ground and lubricated it (aprox 1975)

The nearest is about 10 miles, and it moves frequently - it's pretty "slippery."

Then, of course, 20 miles to the west is the San Andreas fault, which last moved in '69.

The newspaper prints seismic maps with history of movement weekly.

The County Ofc. of Emergency Services has the info, too.

New Madrid in southern Missouri around the turn of the century. Largest recorded quake in the US. Cause d the Mississippi river to change course.

Go to the USGS web site. They have shake maps, instant messages about current quakes, all kinds of interesting information about earthquakes...and much more

Has anyone come across a database/map of fault lines in at least the US?

I live in California. Ha.

For those who also live in CA and want to know more, Point Reyes has a lot of information as well as an interpretive center.

We;re surrounded by faults, but the last that did real damage were in the early 1950s, when Tehachapi and Bakersfield were affected.

The Tehapachi fault is withing to miles of here. It's last major movement was in the 1950s.

1. Local government offices
2. Local university seismic chappies
3. Google it

NY state/ Connecticut. Three years ago? We're in a geologically stable region, but the fault line is there and semi-active. I might be off on my facts: Ramapo fault affects NJ, so I was wrong on that, and its last effects were felt in 1927, way off.

I was referring to this in my answer: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/NYQuake_2002/20020420_nyquake.html

I read a paper daily (or used to) and that stuck in my head as the last one of significance.