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What kind of fault is the San Andreas fault?

April 26, 2017earth fault Geology Mathematics san andreas sciences

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What kind of fault is the San Andreas fault?

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• Have students Identify the fault movements in the recent Loma Prieta, California earthquake. • Have students research the fault histories and recent theories concerning the Northridge, California Earthquake, the New Madrid, Missouri , and the Anchorage, Alaska fault zones.

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The San Andreas fault is a predominantly right lateral strike-slip fault. No, it is not going to fall of into the Pacific Ocean because the predominant movement on transform and strike-slip faults is horizontal, not vertical. In 5 million years or so, everything west of the San Andreas fault will have moved farther north relative to the North American plate. http://www.scotese.com/future.htm http://www.scotese.com/future1.htm http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext.… http://csep10.phys.utk.

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It’s a Transform Boundary (One Slice of land is going up, the other is going down). We aren’t going to fall off and sink, but instead it is more likely That Los Angeles will be next to San Fransisco in about 10,000 years.