The San Andreas Fragment
At the end of spring this year, a movie of the same name with Dwayne Johnson in the title role will appear on the big screens of the cinemas. However, today we will not talk about the film, but about a real break called San Andreas.
At the same time we clarify that for the game Grand Theft Auto this break also has nothing to do. In general, it is worth noting that such transform faults, most often, are at the bottom of the ocean. San Andreas, not just an exception to the rules, but also one of the most vivid examples of the phenomenon, when one plate is in contact with the other. In our case, we are talking about a fault between the North American and Pacific plates. Its total length is about 1300 kilometers. Consider San Andreas can be excellent from a bird's eye view. It looks very impressive and unambiguous. Its line stretches across all of California, along the Pacific coast. There are often earthquakes. The most serious ones date back to 1906 in San Francisco and around Loma Prieta Mountain in 1989.
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