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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 ...
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 Range. Faults in the upper left are part of the Eastern California Shear Zone, connecting northward with the Walker Lane region. Faults extend deeper than shown.
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 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...
The San Felipe Fault Zone (also known as the Agua Caliente or Murrieta Hot Springs Fault zone) is an active Quaternary fault zone made up of continuous right-lateral fault strands]. [1] It is a part of the San Andreas Fault system and it is located in the western Salton Trough spanning three counties: Imperial , Riverside , and San Diego county ...
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.
The Maacama Fault is a right lateral-moving (dextral) geologic fault located in the Coast Ranges of northwestern California.It is considered to be the northernmost segment of the Hayward Fault subsystem of the San Andreas Fault zone.
The San Andreas Fault (SAF) system is a network of active right-lateral strike-slip faults that form a portion of a complex and diffuse transform type plate boundary. The zone of deformation between the Pacific and North American plates extends east into the Basin and Range Province of Eastern California and western Nevada.