California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location ...

San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that spans a length of roughly 800 miles ... (relatively southeast as measured at the fault) under the influence of plate tectonics.

New research suggests that strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common along the well-known San Andreas Fault, California, possibly occurs also on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

The San Andreas Fault (red lines) and the other plate boundaries (green lines). Color contours indicate the presumed fault slip distribution of the 1700 Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.

The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American ...

San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault forms the main strand of the plate boundary, running from the Gulf of California (Baja California, Mexico) north to the region of Cape Mendocino.

The San Jacinto Fault zone in Southern California is not actually a plate boundary but rather serves as the stress release point between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate as they ...

The San Andreas fault zone is an 800-mile boundary between the Pacific tectonic plate to the west and the North American plate to the east. Here, the plates grind past each other horizontally at a ...

Motion at the San Andreas boundary is referred to as “strike-slip,” which means that the two plates are moving horizontally past each other. The motion between the two plates in California is further ...

The San Andreas is the main plate boundary between the mammoth Pacific and North American plates, and is a key dividing line moving southwestern California — encompassing cities including Half ...

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was the last quake greater than magnitude seven to occur on the San Andreas Fault system. The inexorable motions of plate tectonics mean that every year, strands ...

So if the San Andreas Fault had cut the Garlock Fault, it should have offset the Garlock Fault by a whopping 150 miles ... have long inspired furious debate among plate tectonics researchers, ...