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...
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Giamatti. Its plot centers on a massive earthquake caused by the San Andreas Fault, devastating the West Coast of the United States. Principal photography...
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Cascadia subduction zone (redirect from Cascadia fault zone)
is moving in a northwest direction) in other locations such as the San Andreas Fault in central and southern California. Tectonic processes active in the...
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Union City, Fremont, and San Jose. The Hayward Fault is parallel to the San Andreas Fault, which lies offshore and through the San Francisco Peninsula. To...
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number of such faults are found on land, although these are generally better-known, such as the San Andreas Fault and North Anatolian Fault. Transform boundaries...
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The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) was a research project that began in 2002 aimed at collecting geological data about the San Andreas Fault...
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (redirect from 1989 san francisco earthquake)
approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa...
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Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, with the San Andreas Fault as its northern border. The highest peak in the range is Mount San Antonio, commonly...
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earthquake originated along the Mojave segment of the San Andreas Fault near Wrightwood, but other faults have been suggested as the cause. Several studies...
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to: San Andreas, California, an unincorporated town San Andreas Fault, a geologic fault that runs through California San Andreas Lake, a lake near San Francisco...
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1857 Fort Tejon earthquake (category San Emigdio Mountains)
estimated moment magnitude of 7.9, it ruptured the southern part of the San Andreas Fault for a length of about 225 miles (350 km), between Parkfield and Wrightwood...
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The Calaveras Fault is a major branch of the San Andreas Fault System that is located in northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Activity on...
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Transverse Ranges (section Faults)
segment extends from the San Andreas fault eastward to the Colorado Desert. The central and eastern segments (near the San Andreas fault) have the highest elevations...
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California. It is situated directly on the San Andreas Fault, which is named after the valley it is in. After discovering San Francisco Bay from Sweeney Ridge on...
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Parkfield earthquake (redirect from Parkfield-San Bernardino Earthquake)
California, United States. The San Andreas fault runs through this town, and six successive magnitude 6 earthquakes occurred on the fault at unusually regular intervals...
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and high on the lists of American disasters. The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that forms part of the tectonic boundary between the...
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around the fault zone. The project will lead to a better understanding of the processes that control the behavior of the San Andreas fault, and it is...
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New Madrid Seismic Zone (redirect from New Madrid Fault Line)
indicated that the faults were moving at no more than 0.2 mm (0.008 in.) per year. This contrasts to the rate of slip on the San Andreas Fault, which averages...
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using geodesy. The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) consisted of a main borehole that cut across the active San Andreas Fault at a depth of approximately...
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million years ago, and then later exposed by uplift activity along the San Andreas Fault. The Tataviam people were living here when the Spanish arrived and...
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SJFZ is a component of the larger San Andreas transform system and is considered to be the most seismically active fault zone in the area. Together they...
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Brawley Seismic Zone (redirect from Brawley Fault Zone)
Brawley fault zone, is a predominantly extensional tectonic zone that connects the southern terminus of the San Andreas Fault with the Imperial Fault in Southern...
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Aseismic creep (redirect from Aseismic fault creep)
examples of aseismic slip include faults in California (e.g. Calaveras Fault, Hayward Fault, and San Andreas Fault). Aseismic creep accommodates far-field...
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Carrizo Plain (category Valleys of San Luis Obispo County, California)
occurred along the San Andreas Fault. Although Wallace Creek is not the only creek that has been offset by the San Andreas Fault, it is the most spectacular...
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Earthquake cycle (section Dynamic fault modeling)
faults. Depending on the size of the earthquake, an earthquake cycle can last decades, centuries, or longer. The Parkfield portion of the San Andreas...
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the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California...
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formed about eleven million years ago by tectonic activity along the San Andreas Fault, and are still actively rising. Many local rivers originate in the...
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California. After formation, the volcanic field was split by a fault in the San Andreas Fault Zone, and over the last 23 million years, the two halves of...
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1812 Ventura earthquake (category History of San Bernardino County, California)
have been related. The San Andreas is the "master fault" of California, it is the main plate boundary in the San Andreas Fault System, consisting of other...
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