The North American plate and the pacific plates slide past each other. They push and pull on the crust with enormous force, causing an earthquake.
The San Andreas fault is where it occured.
No, the San Andreas Fault does not have any volcanoes along its path.
Earthquakes occur along a fault. Near the San Andreas fault lots of earthquakes occur.
The average amount of diplacement along the San Andreas Fault is 2 to 5 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) per year.
San Andreas is a place, a location. Locations and places do not 'happen'.
AnswerAccording to the USGS, the plates along the San Andrea fault move about 1.7in per year.
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.
they are making earthquakes
Along the San Andreas Fault line.
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.
No, the San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip fault, not a normal fault.