: Swarm of aftershocks pulses through Northern California in wake of huge 7.0 quake A major earthquake that sent reverberations through Northern California could mark the beginning of an active period ...

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 ... to some of the biggest names in IT, spanning the full range of products and services from hardware ...