Movement along the fault causes earthquakes; several thousand occur annually, although only a few are of moderate or higher magnitude.
AnswerAccording to the USGS, the plates along the San Andrea fault move about 1.7in per year.
The San Andreas Fault
Earthquake
Earthquakes are very common along transform boundaries. An example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas fault in California.
Because it is close to the San Andreas fault
Earthquakes occur along a fault. Near the San Andreas fault lots of earthquakes occur.
Earthquakes.
they are making earthquakes
earthquakes along the San Andreas fault in California
AnswerAccording to the USGS, the plates along the San Andrea fault move about 1.7in per year.
The San Andreas fault produces earthquakes, but not volcanic activity.
Earthquakes occur along the San Andreas Fault because of the tectonic plates. When the plates slip or shift, an earthquake happens.
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.
I think you will ind that it is the San Andreas Fault line.
The San Andreas fault
The San Andreas Fault
San Andreas fault