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What is the average rate of displacement along the San Andreas fault?
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The average amount of diplacement along the San Andreas Fault is 2 to 5 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) per year.
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How many earthquakes occur along the San Andreas fault each year?
AnswerAccording to the USGS, the plates along the San Andrea fault move about 1.7in per year.
What is the relative movement along the San Andreas Fault?
The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault (also known as a strike-flip fault). It is where two plates are sliding past each other in opposite directions.
What is a slip in geology?
A type of fault caused by two plates slidding along each other, like the San Andreas fault.
The San Andreas fault is in California true or false?
The San Andreas Fault is in California
Moment magnitude estimates the amount of energy an earthquake releases and is derived from the amount of displacement along a n?
Fault
Is California going to be underwater in 2015?
No the time-scales for that sort of displacement along the San Andreas fault are on the order of millions of years not decades.
What is the offset that occurs along a fault?
displacement
What occur along a fault?
Earthquakes occur along a fault. Near the San Andreas fault lots of earthquakes occur.
What happens along a fault beneath earths surface when earthquakes happen?
If the fault is responsible for the earthquake, there will be movement (displacement) along the fault.
What happens along a fault beneath Earths surface when an earthquake occurs.?
If the fault is responsible for the earthquake, there will be movement (displacement) along the fault.
What is happening to the plates along the san Andreas fault?
they are making earthquakes
Where does transform boundaries occur?
Along the San Andreas Fault line.
How many earthquakes occur along the San Andreas fault each year?
AnswerAccording to the USGS, the plates along the San Andrea fault move about 1.7in per year.
What is the relative movement along the San Andreas Fault?
The San Andreas Fault is a transform fault (also known as a strike-flip fault). It is where two plates are sliding past each other in opposite directions.
What happens alonge a fault beneath earths surface when an earthquake happens?
If the fault is responsible for the earthquake, there will be movement (displacement) along the fault.
What major geologic fault begins in Southern California and continues northwest along the coast?
The San Andreas Fault
Where does transform plate boundary occur?
Along the San Andreas Fault line.
