It happens by two boundaries pushing past each other which goes through California.
San Andreas is a place, a location. Locations and places do not 'happen'.
The San Andreas fault is where it occured.
The San Andreas fault!The San Andreas Fault
Yes San Andreas has had an earthquake in fact it has been a lot of them San Andreas even has a fault line named after it (The San Andreas fault line is actually a visible crack in the ground) and a lot of earth quakes happen upon a fault line.
No, the San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, not a normal fault.
I think you will ind that it is the San Andreas Fault line.
There are many faults in California. The two most significant faults are the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Fault.
The San Andreas Fault
No. As a transform fault, the San Andreas Fault cannot produce volcanism.
The largest geographical fault in California is the San Andres fault. This large fault is responsible for the largest quakes to hit the state. The San Jacinto, Elsinore, and Imperial are smaller parallel faults to the San Andres.
The San Andreas fault line.
The most studied transform fault in the world is the San Andreas Fault.