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Plaque showing location of San Andreas Fault in San Mateo County. The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate. Traditionally ...
Simplified fault map of southern California The faults of Southern California viewed to the southeast, as modeled by the Southern California Earthquake Center. Highlighted in purple are the San Andreas Fault (left) and Santa Monica Bay complex (right). The foreground is in the Santa Barbara Channel, the east-trending zone marks the Transverse ...
The San Andreas fault system and other large faults in California - different segments of the fault display different behavior: Date: 4 December 2009, 11:11 (UTC) Source: San_Andreas_Fault_Map.gif; Author: San_Andreas_Fault_Map.gif: USGS; derivative work: Luigi Chiesa (talk)
The most famous fault in the U.S. is San Andreas. ... but stated that while “some of the detailed findings are specific to the behavior of the San Andreas in the Parkfield region, ...
Earthquakes are common on the West Coast, with multiple plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault making geologic activity more likely. They are rarer on the East Coast, but they do happen ...
An interactive Times map illustrates the risk. ... The San Andreas fault has quakes more frequently; it ruptures on average, in a very rough sense, every century or so. In Southern California, the ...
The San Jacinto Fault Zone and the San Andreas Fault (SAF) accommodate up to 80% of the slip rate between the North American and Pacific plates.The extreme southern portion of the SAF has experienced two moderate events in historical times, while the SJFZ is one of California's most active fault zones and has repeatedly produced both moderate and large events.
A signpost in front of the Parkfield Cafe offers information and directions to various places, including the nearby San Andreas Fault which runs under the small population town of Parkfield on ...