What you are referring to is a plate boundary. A plate boundary is an area where two tectonic plates are either moving away, moving towards, or moving along each other. San Andreas fault is a plate boundary because the fault is located over two tectonic plates that are moving along each other.
The Pacific and North American plates slide past each other along the San Andreas fault. They push and pull on the crust with enormous force. The crust breaks, forming many other faults, shown in Figure 18.
Because California straddles the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates at a point where one plate is moving north relative to the other. This has led to the formation of a large transform fault system which geologist Andrew Lawson named the San Andreas fault after a lake within a valley which was formed by the motion of the fault.
The San Andreas Fault received its name from Andrew Lawson after the 1906 earthquake. He named it for San Andreas Lake, a (now) man-modified sag pond in San Mateo county through which the fault passes.
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The San Andreas Fault is in California
The largest and most famous earthquake fault in California is the San Andreas fault. It is 800 km long. It is significant because it runs through a heavily populated area (Los Angeles) and it is likely to do very serious damage some day. The San Andreas fault is a transform fault.
The San Andreas Fault is a transform plate boundary.
The San Andreas Fault
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no, the san Andreas fault is a strike-slip or lateral fault
The San Andreas fault is where it occured.
The San Andreas fault!The San Andreas Fault
The most noteworthy is the San Andreas fault.
There are many faults in California. The two most significant faults are the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Fault.
The most studied transform fault in the world is the San Andreas Fault.
No. It is a transform fault.
Strike-Slip fault is the most common fault type in the San Andreas fault system.
No. As a transform fault, the San Andreas Fault cannot produce volcanism.
San Andreas Fault
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.
I think you will ind that it is the San Andreas Fault line.