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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.
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]
- 1,200 km (750 mi)
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.
15 de abr. de 2024 · The fault as a whole spans roughly 1,200 km, from Cape Mendocino to the Mexico border. On April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8; this was a result of the San Andreas Fault slipping along a section 270 miles (430 km) long.
22 de nov. de 2021 · San Andreas fault drawn on map. The San Andreas Fault is divided into three principal fault segments: Northern, Central, and Southern segments each of which possesses distinct characteristics with different degrees of earthquake risk.
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5 de abr. de 2010 · April 05, 2010. • 3 min read. The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that jolted northern Mexico and Southern California yesterday afternoon was the first big earthquake to occur on this particular fault...
The inset shows these plates to be the Cocos plate and the North American plate. Note that the dark blue line does not run further up the coast. There the Pacific plate and the North American plate are passing side-by-side. The San Andreas Fault is a well known example of this side-by-side type of motion, called strike-slip.
