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  1. The San Andreas Fault is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate. San Francisco, Sacramento and the Sierra Nevada are on the North American Plate. And despite San Francisco's ...
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  3. sciencetimes.com

    The San Andreas fault line is one of the largest faults in the world that runs over 800 miles across the North American plate. So, which cities were likely to experience huge earthquakes when The Big
  4. Jun 27, 2024Located in extreme western North America, the San Andreas Fault stretches from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California, United States, and even extends into the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco. This major fracture of the Earth's crust is classified as a right lateral (dextral) strike-slip fault, meaning that the ...
  5. calgeographic.com

    Wesnousky, Steven G. 2005. "The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary." Journal of Structural Geology 27: 1505-1512. The History of the San Andreas Fault and Basin and Range - Open Geology online textbook
  6. geologyscience.com

    Sep 7, 2023The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault that runs approximately 800 miles through California, separating the Pacific Plate from the North American Plate. It was first observed by Europeans in 1769, but its geological significance became clear in the early 20th century, particularly after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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  8. researchgate.net

    Map showing the plate tectonic setting of western North America (simplified from Drummond (1981) and Simkin et al. (2006)), location of the California Channel Islands, and other localities ...
  9. A region of California. There are mountains along the western coast of California extending from the Klamath Mountains in the north -- Oregon border region -- to the southwestern section of the Sierra Nevada -- Southern California. The San Andreas Fault system divides this region along a north/south axis. The range is approximately 550 miles long.
  10. - Sand Andreas fault: boundary between North America and Pacific plates - Los Angeles and San Francisco located on opposite sides of the fault Movement of San Andreas fault in 1906 - caused major earthquake - earthquakes not understood at the time - scientific investigations led to identification of fault and new understandings of earthquakes
  11. Curlie directory for category Regional: North America: United States: California. California is the most populous state in the U.S. and the third largest in land area. ... Regional North America United States California . 34,090. ... Education 66 Employment 13 Government 1,320 Guides and Directorie­s ...

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