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Name of the fault where the San Francisco 1906 occurred?
The San Andreas fault is where it occured.
What is a fault makes California an area of high risk for earthquakes?
Andreas fault.
Where do a lot of earthquakes occur?
Most earthquakes occur on active fault lines such as the San Andreas fault in California. Most fault lines are under water but some come above water, such as the San Andreas fault in San Francisco and the fault line in Iceland. The San Andreas fault caused the great fire in San Francisco.
The probability of an earthquake high in Parkfield San Andreas fault?
Because there were lots of big earthquakes in the past at Parkfield
Where in North America east of the San Andreas fault is the area that has seen earthquakes as large as the largest recorded on the San Andreas fault in historic time?
The New Madrid fault in Missouri.
Why does earthquakes occur in California?
it is because of the fault line that is called San Andreas fault
Are there earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the san Andreas fault?
The San Andreas fault produces earthquakes, but not volcanic activity.
What is the san ------- fault causes many earthquakes?
I think you will ind that it is the San Andreas Fault line.
Fault that makes California an area of high risk for earthquakes?
The San Andreas fault
What occur along a fault?
Earthquakes occur along a fault. Near the San Andreas fault lots of earthquakes occur.
What active fault zone generate earthquakes?
The San Andreas Fault
A fault which known as devastating earthquakes in California?
San Andreas fault
Name of the fault where the San Francisco 1906 occurred?
The San Andreas fault is where it occured.
Why do earthquakes occur the San Andrea's fault?
Earthquakes occur along the San Andreas Fault because of the tectonic plates. When the plates slip or shift, an earthquake happens.
Why do earthquakes take place near the la area?
Because it is close to the San Andreas fault
What is a fault makes California an area of high risk for earthquakes?
Andreas fault.
Why does Florida have less earthquakes than California?
California has more earthquakes then Florida, because California sits along the San Andreas Fault line. ( )-improvement, actually California sits on a series of many fault lines, the San Andreas only being one of them. San Andreas runs most of the length of the coast of California and is well known because it has a hard "kink" near LA which causes more violent earthquakes when it shifts, and can actually be seen in the topography of some areas of California from overhead.These fault lines are also a part of the "ring of fire" which causes the majority of the earthquakes and volcanoes along the West Coast of N America, Japan, and many of the Island chains of the Pacific.
