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Stress map of California and nearby regions, showing the Eastern California Shear Zone. Map by the USGS. The San Andreas Fault, at least the current, modern one, has not been the only transform boundary that has existed in this location. In the southern section, there have been at least two previous iterations (Powell and Weldon, 1992).
The San Andreas Fault Zone is not the only active transform plate boundary with U. S. National Park Service sites. Southeast of Florida, the Caribbean Plate is sliding east-northeast about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) per year relative to the North American Plate. Both plates are capped by oceanic crust.
Where Is It? The figure below shows the general location of the San Andreas fault and several other major faults in California. The San Andreas fault system and other large faults in California: different segments of the fault display different behavior.
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The San Andreas fault is the primary feature of the system and the longest fault in California that can cause powerful earthquakes—as big as magnitude 8. A large part of the region’s population lives within 50 miles of the San Andreas fault and could be exposed to very strong levels of ground shaking in a major earthquake.
The San Andreas Fault isn’t the only fault in California, most people don’t realize. In the Bay Area alone there are 6 other major fault lines. Calaveras, Hayward, Concord-Green Valley, Greenville, Rodgers Creek, and Gregorio. 124 votes, 25 comments. 3M subscribers in the MapPorn community. High quality images of maps.
11 de mar. de 2015 · The San Andreas Fault is about 800 miles long (1,287 kilometers), ... Map of the modern San Andreas Fault in relation to the greater plate-tectonic setting of western North America.
