The San Andreas Fault is one of the most fascinating geological features in the world. It has been – and still is – a major concern for inhabitants who live anywhere near it. It has gained widespread attention, among laypersons as well as scientists. For seismologists around the world, fe...
He took us into Backcountry of the BLM Wilderness East of Palm Desert. We took a loop trail in the Jeep and then went to Painted Canyon to see the effects the San Andreas fault on the landscape. The scenery was spectacular and something we never would hav...
If a large earthquake ruptures the San Andreas fault,the death toll could approach 2,000, and the shaking could lead to damage in every city in Southern California — from Palm Springs to San Luis Obispo, seismologist Lucy Jones has said. What does the San Andreas Fault do? The San Andre...
A profile of the strain accumulation rate along a line trending N50°E across the subparallel Elsinore, San Jacinto, and San Andreas faults near Palm Springs, California, has been constructed from trilateration surveys in the 1973-81 interval. The strain accumulation is principally right-lateral ...
We studied a paleoseismic trench excavated in 2017 across the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault and herein provide the first detailed record of ground-breaking earthquakes on this important fault in Southern California. The trench exposed an ~40-m-wide fault zone cutting through alluvial san...
A recent trip to Palm Springs had us walking around in the desert with a smartphone and a tablet trying to match picture to real evidence so we could find and experience the San Andreas Fault. For the most part, it was pretty unremarkable. Photographs showed us the fault going straight thr...
Noun1.San Andreas Fault- a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes Calif.,California,Golden State,CA- a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes ...
Fumal, T. E., Rymer, M. J. & Seitz, G. G. Timing of large earthquakes since A.D. 800 on the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas fault zone at Thousand Palms Oasis, near Palm Springs, California.Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.92, 2841–2860 (2002). ...
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The San Andreas Fault sits at the region where the North American Plate is sliding past the Pacific Plate, a boundary known as a strike-slip fault. It is actually a network of fault systems that snakes from the Salton Sea in the Mojave Desert to the Mendocino Coast in the north. The re...