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La falla de San Andrés (en inglés: San Andreas Fault) es una falla transformante continental que discurre por unos 1300 km a través del estado de California, en Estados Unidos y Baja California, en México.
The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate .
The San Andreas Fault is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in two from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. San Diego, Los Angeles and Big Sur are on the Pacific Plate.
3 de may. de 2024 · San Andreas Fault, major fracture of the Earth’s crust in extreme western North America. The fault trends northwestward for more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California, U.S., passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San.
10 de abr. de 2024 · The part of the San Andreas Fault located near Parkfield, California, offers scientists who study earthquakes a unique opportunity: Just north of Parkfield, two major plates creep against one...
18 de may. de 2021 · The southern San Andreas fault system (California, USA) provides an excellent natural laboratory for studying the controls on vertical crustal motions related to strike-slip deformation.
22 de nov. de 2021 · San Andreas Fault is a major continental transform boundary that is situated in the extreme western part of the continent of North America and forms the border between two principal tectonic plates: the North American Plate on the eastern side and the Pacific Plate on the western side.
