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The San Andreas Fault line ... Parkfield sits right at a transitional segment of the fault line that causes “very simple ...

Recent earthquakes that have shaken California may be a result of a Southern California fault line considered even more dangerous than the San Andreas ... could one day cause a huge earthquake ...

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North ...

This sudden jerk creates an 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.

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

Some would clarify the claim by saying that after the "Big One," California west of the San Andreas fault would suffer a ... an earthquake would cause the state to sink into the ocean.

This section of the fault has had very little slippage ... magnitude-7.6 or greater on the southern San Andreas would kill thousands of people and cause many billions of dollars in damages ...