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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. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate .
- 1,200 km (750 mi)
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.
3 de may. de 2024 · San Andreas Fault, major fracture of the Earth’s crust in extreme western North America. The fault trends northwestward for more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California, U.S., passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San.
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Scientists project the San Andreas fault line could cause a devastating earthquake in California by 2030. This fault has caused some of the biggest earthquakes in California with a magnitude. Most of California’s population lives and works on the west side of the fault.
22 de nov. de 2021 · San Andreas Fault. San Andreas Fault is a major continental transform boundary that is situated in the extreme western part of the continent of North America and forms the border between two principal tectonic plates: the North American Plate on the eastern side and the Pacific Plate on the western side. Since the Pacific Plate ...
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6 de jul. de 2019 · Qué es la temida falla de San Andrés (y por qué preocupa tanto en California) - BBC News Mundo. Redacción * BBC News Mundo. 6 julio 2019. Actualizado 7 febrero 2023. Getty Images. La falla de...
La falla de San Andrés (en inglés: San Andreas Fault) es una falla transformante continental que discurre por unos 1300 km a través del estado de California, en Estados Unidos y Baja California, en México.
