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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?
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What causes earthquakes what areas in North America are more prone to earthquake activity?
Earthquakes are caused by the shifting of the Earth's plates usually at transform boundaries. California is a major earthquake area in NA because of the San Andreas fault line.
How many earthquakes occurred because of san Andreas fault?
7 earthquakes, one earthquake about every 20 years
What is a fault makes California an area of high risk for earthquakes?
Andreas fault.
Where in north America is San Andreas Fault?
The San Andreas fault runs approximately north-south along the west coast of the United States and Mexico. California and Baja California are both deeply affected by this fault, which is relatively active and produces small earthquakes pretty consistently.
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.
On or near which coast of North America do most earthquakes occurr?
The California coast! The San Andreas Fault Line.
Are there earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the san Andreas fault?
The San Andreas fault produces earthquakes, but not volcanic activity.
What types of natural hazards occurs along the San Andreas Fault?
Earthquakes.
Fault that makes California an area of high risk for earthquakes?
The San 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.
What states the sections of active faults that have had a few earthquakes that are likely to be sited of strong earthquakes?
the san andreas fault
What causes earthquakes what areas in North America are more prone to earthquake activity?
Earthquakes are caused by the shifting of the Earth's plates usually at transform boundaries. California is a major earthquake area in NA because of the San Andreas fault line.
What is the san ------- fault causes many earthquakes?
I think you will ind that it is the San Andreas Fault line.
What active fault zone generate earthquakes?
The San Andreas Fault
What is happening to the plates along the san Andreas fault?
they are making earthquakes
A fault which known as devastating earthquakes in California?
San Andreas fault
What natural disaster does the San Andreas fault cause?
Earthquake
