By:

Terri Amers
Carrie Black
Erika Mero
Ashley O’Hare
Ashley Stern
The San Andreas Fault
system is located in the
state of California.
A Fault is a deep crack in the
earth’s crust, most of them
are found between two
tectonic plate boundaries.
San Andreas Fault was
named after San Andreas
Lake by geologist A.C.
Lawson in 1895
 Tectonic plates are what make up the earth’s crust
where the oceans and continents rest.
 The name of the tectonic plate that sits on the east side
of the San Andreas Fault Line is the North American
Plate and on the west side is the Pacific Plate.
 The fault begins in Gulf of
California, and travels north
through Baja, past the Salton
Sea, all the way up to San
Francisco and exit’s the bay
where it continues to run
along the coast until it ends
near Eureka, California.

 The entire San Andreas fault

system is more than 800
miles long and extends to
depths of at least 10 miles
within the Earth.
 Northern Segment
 Creeping Segment
 Parkfield Segment
 Central Segment
 Southern Segment
 The Northern segment of the San Andreas fault
extends from Shelter Cove to south of the San
Francisco Bay area.
 This portion of the San Andreas fault extends from San
Juan Bautista, near Monterey, to the short Parkfield
segment deep in the Coast Ranges.
 This part of he fault
is at the center of the
San Andreas fault.
Hardly 30 kilometers
long, this segment is
special because it
has its own set of
magnitude-6
earthquakes that
don't involve the
neighboring
segments.
 This Segment is
defined by the great
rupture of 9 January
1857, a magnitude-8
earthquake that
broke open the
ground for about 350
kilometers from the
hamlet of Cholame
near Parkfield to
Cajon Pass near San
Bernardino.
 From Cajon Pass, this segment of the San Andreas
fault runs about 300 kilometers to its end on the
shores of the Salton Sea
 The San Andreas Fault is
a right lateral strike-slip
fault.
 What does this mean? It
means that the left side
of the fault is moving
northward towards
Alaska while the right
side is sliding southward
toward Mexico.
 Disasters
 Earthquakes
 Landslide
 Flashfloods
 Fires
 Tsunamis
 Result from Disasters
 Property Damage
 Property Loss
 Injury
 Death
 The Great Earthquake
of 1906.
 San Francisco
Earthquake of 1989
(also known as the
“World Series”
Earthquake
 1994 Northridge Quake
 1992Landers
Earthquake
 1857- Fort Tejon Quake
 1899- San Jacinto Fault Quake-6.7 magnitude
 1933- Long Beach Earthquake-6.3 magnitude
 1986- North Palm Springs Quake-6.1 magnitude
 1992- Lander’s Quake-7.3 magnitude
 1994- Northridge Quake-6.7 magnitude
 1999- Hector Mine Quake-7.1 magnitude
 There is no way to predict when or the exact place the
earthquakes will hit.
 It is unprepared for building on the fault
 The central section runs northwest direction from
Monterey county to Hollister.
 This section exhibits a phenomenon called a seismic
creep, where the fault slips slowly without causing
earthquakes.
 Streets crossing the fault in Hollister show major offset
and several houses sitting on top of the fault are
noticeably twisted or uneven.
The earthquakes are inevitable and unpredictable
along the Fault Line. Scientists continue to research
ways to predict when and where the earthquakes will
hit. Because the earth near the San Andreas Fault is
not stable, we must prepare ourselves for possible
disasters.
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