i live in California, San diego. and the san andreas fault is right here. do u think we will be hit by a massive earthquake sooner or later? with all the destruction going on, its a strong possibility right?
San Andreas Fault – can California specifically Los Angeles slip into the ocean if big earthquick hits?
I read the goverment has already names for those bays they going to be created in the LA and San Francisco area . Should be Bay of Prosperity and Bay of Harmony.
I have three kids and live in LA. I am little worry, could this really happen? Scientist on TV aid there is not space in the ocean for us to slip into?
What is the truth?
Thank you
I have a cousin living there and it makes me nervous. I get worried about him.
San Andreas Fault is so dangerous and Cali is way overdue for an earthquake.
I am in NYC and we don’t get earthquakes here. I have been in an earthquake once in my life and this was in Azerbaijan. (google it)
Aren’t you guys afraid? How can you live in Cali?
(and no I am not dissing cali, Im sure its beautiful)
Santa Monica Curve
San Antonio Line
San Andreas Fault
San Jose Split
the san andreas fault in california is an exsample of a normal fault or strike slip
plz help me its a hard Question for meh
Let’s say a 8.5 earthquake hits in So Cal., as a result of the San Andreas fault.
a. Which counties will be majorly affected?
b. Will buildings, parking structures and freeways collapse? (how effective are the strict codes for buildings).
c. Will there be a big gaping hole under the ground?
d.Will a part of the West Coast split off?
e. how many people do you think will die?
and should i get a dog so it can warn me before hand?
I live along the coast of Los Angeles, California and I was wondering…We all know that the San Andreas fault has unleashed devastating earthquakes on cities such as San Francisco, but I’ve never seen anything recording on what it has done to Los Angeles. If a "big one" were to occur now, how badly would Los Angeles be affected?
there were a whole bunch of earthquakes in San Diego county and Mexico. Its on the San Andreas fault and has been active lately with alot of earthquakes.
an average movement of about 5m(16ft) along the san andreas fault was associated with the devastating 1906 san fransanciso earthquake that killed people and destroyed properties. assuming that all displacement along the fault was produced by earth motions of this magnitude, how often must such earthquakes have occurred in order to account for the total displacement?
-What type of motion does the San Andreas fault have?
oThrust
oNormal
oLeft Lateral
oRight lateral
Speaking of the San Andreas Fault, what is the general direction is the land mass moving in the Southwest corner of the US? Is it probable that it will slide off into the ocean? Is that an unlikely event, and why or why not?
a Many earthquakes occur along the San Andreas fault
b the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate are locked in dynamic equilibrium
c the subduction zone is the boundary at which the crustal plates are drifting apart
d the age of the bedrock increases as distance from the fault increases
The San Andreas Fault line divides the ___________ plate from the ________ plate ?
Which four statements are true regarding the San Andreas Fault?
A. The San Andreas Fault is located in California.
B. Some segments of the fault have a slow, gradual movement resulting in little noticeable seismic activity.
C. Stick-slip motion along the fault produces the largest earthquakes.
D. Movement along the fault is occurring at a rate of about 1 or 2 inches a day.
E. The earthquake activity around Parkfield has been very regular since the mid 1800’s.
the San Andreas Fault is going to go off big time? I mean fifteen years ago the heads of the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena, CA and the heads of the Seismographic Institute said that there will probably not be a major earthquake during our lifetimes. Six weeks later the L.A. Times had an article stating that the selfsame heads of these places bought up over a million acres of desert east of Palm Springs at 25 cents an acre. Do you believe this?
Okay this summer, my family and I were in Las Vegas and we decided to go to Los Angeles. So we drove there on Interstate 15 to Interstate 10. My question is, Did we cross over the San Andreas fault? If we did could we see it like you can in other parts of California. I fell asleep in the middle of California so I couldn’t remember.
And by bigger I mean stronger earthquakes, or volcano eruptions from active volcanos. Along the San Andreas fault line, could this mean a bigger quake?
I was watching Fox news and it said that there were 25 (or some number like that) earthquakes in California in the past two months.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/
Recent earthquakes
By the way, I haven’t been keeping track to earthquakes as much as I used to..I was unsure if all of the quakes in Cali were common or not (like if this sort of thing happens all the time).
okay, so i’ve been reading up on earthquakes since the one on Tuesday, and its starting to get to me.
What Sections of the san andreas fault are expected to erupt?
and what will it be like?
One day Billy Bob was living a normal life in his home in New York City, New York. It was a white house in urban New York City. He had just come home from work and was looking forward to a quiet evening. His work was being a construction worker building houses for people. He was watching Sports Center when suddenly he felt the ground shake. He didn’t think it was anything because earthquakes did not happen in New York City. He knew that there were no fault lines to cause earthquakes in New York City. Then the shaking became more violent. Then things were falling over in his house. He went outside and looked at everything outside falling down. He quickly went into his crawlspace and waited until the earthquake was over. The earthquake went on for three hours. When he went outside to check on what happened he found everything to be toppled over, except for his house. His house was just recently all by himself built so that was probably why his house was the only building standing because he was a good construction builder..
He watched the channel 5 news and found out that approximately 292 buildings had been destroyed. The earthquake was a 4.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. It was not a big earthquake. He then began helping rebuild the city because he was a construction worker who built houses. He knew that it would take about a half a year to rebuild all of the damage that was caused by the earthquake. Something that nobody could figure out was why the earthquake happened. There were no fault lines near New York to cause the earthquake. The place earthquakes would make sense would be California because the San Andreas Fault is there. How could an earthquake occur without any fault lines for the earthquake to occur? That’s what all of the meteorologist were wondering after the earthquake happened. The city was rebuilt in about 66 months.
About 2 weeks after the city was rebuilt Billy Bob was outside building a house in Junee. He was building a very large house in a very large neighborhood. He saw on the weather that it was about 83 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature with the humidity was unbearable. After he was done he went home. When he was about to go inside he noticed that it felt a lot colder. Then the temperature was rapidly dropping. He looked at the barometer in his house and it said it was 21 degrees Fahrenheit. He quickly shut all of the doors and windows so no cold air would come into the house. On the news it said that everywhere in the US the weather was rapidly dropping. None of the meteorologists could figure out why the weather was dropping so rapidly or why it was dropping at all. He went to bed a few hours later. The next day when he looked what the temperature was, he found out that it was negative 150 degrees Fahrenheit. He made sure to stay inside and keep the heat up as high as possible so he would not freeze to death inside his home. Nobody could figure out why the weather was so cold. But then about a week later the weather was back in the 80’s. All of the meteorologists were wondering why the weather was so messed up.
The weather stayed the same for the next 5 months. Everyone in New York and the US was getting back to their normal lives. But then the meteorologists were predicting bad storms. They were predicting an extremely bad thunderstorm. Everyone started to rush into stores and get supplies for when they were going to leave New York City before worse storms happen. A lot of things get broken and stolen in stores. People also fight to get supplies and a lot of people get injured in the stores. It was like the store had been destroyed because of all of the damage to everything inside the stores. Fortunately Billy Bob gotets out of New York and into Chicago. But other people weren’t so lucky. About half of the people in New York City escaped New York. The streets were empty because of the people that left. About 5 days after some people left he got into Chicago he heard on the news it said that a much larger earthquake had just happened in New York. It was estimated that 3,500 buildings were destroyed in the massive earthquake. The magnitude of this earthquake was 10.0. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded. They showed pictures of how New York City looked like. It was just destroyedin ruins because of how big the earthquake that happened was. There is also a fire still going on in New York City that doesn’t look like it will stop soon. Then as the meteorologists predicted an extremely bad thunderstorm started and there was even more damage to everything. New York City was in ruins. And if that wasn’t enough there are tidal waves crashing into New York City from the side of New York City adding to all of the damage that had already happened..it.
Billy Bob decided that he would stay in Chicago until he is absolutely sure the storms have ended. But he wasn’t sure that the storms would end. The fire and the tidal waves and the thunderstorm lasted for about 3 days
The fault was a normal fault formed by the crust being pulled apart, due to the pull of a divergent plate boundary. The cold weather happened when global warming causes large areas of the Greenland and Iceland ice shelves to break off and melt, diluting the Atlantic Ocean with large amounts of fresh water. This slows the Gulf Stream causing a rapid cooling of the Northern Hemisphere. Since plates are always moving they rub against each other in some places sink beneath each other in others, or spread apart from each other (like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge).
After all of that New York City looked like a warzone from all of the damage. Billy Bob hopeds that the storms have ended for good because he is tired of all of the stress of the storms. Billy Bob knows that he will probably not move into New York again because New York City is dilapidated. After about a year of staying in Chicago he was convinced that the storms had caused too much damagestopped for good and went back to New York Citydecided he would never go back to New York City. None of the buildings were still standing
The city was in ruins. It would probably take years and years to rebuild back to what it used to be before the storms. Billy Bob found a job as a construction worker who built houses in Chicago.. He decided to just go back to Chicago and live there for the rest of his life because it would be impossible to live with everything in ruins. In the end meteorologists figured out that the earthquakes happened because of a fault line they found running through New York. The reason nobody knew about the fault was because that it just formed about 5 years ago and just now started to have an earthquake there.
At such places the motion isn’t smooth–the plates are stuck together at the edges but the rest of each plate is continuing to move, so the rocks along the edges are distorted. As the motion continues, the strain builds up to the point where the rock cannot withstand any more bending. With a lurch, the rock breaks and the two sides move. An earthquake is the shaking that radiates out from the breaking rock. Billy Bob went on to live the rest of his life in peaceiece in Chicago where he lived for the rest of this life.
I have heard much talk about a future California earthquake (San Andreas Fault) that is supposed to be the biggest, most devastating one yet. It is predicted to take place in my lifetime. There was a special on tv, but I didn’t get to see it and I don’t remember what it was called.
Does anyone know of a site or program that has a big description of the estimated/supposed year the earthquake will happen, damage, etc?
and if it did crack then what would happen to LA and Hollywood and San Diego and San Fransico? lol Would everybody just sink and die? If people know the san andreas fault line will crack someday during a big earth quake then why do people in these places?
I bet someday in the far future in hundreds of years all that land will sink after a big earthquake and it will become a very famous for people to explore underwater cities.
If, for millions of years, the west side of the San Andreas fault has been moving northwesterly to the east side, should not the mountainous coastal land mass south of where the fault enters the sea (at Daly City) have formed a peninsula by now? (PS: for whoever answers this question, I will appreciate
your looking at my Geology question # 2, relative to the Alburqueque rift valley also). Thanks.
I was wondering if the San Andreas fault line is visible from above and can you take helicopters tours over the site.
The large area of high hazard in the valley east of San Fernando is due to the large, northward dipping thrust fault that was the source of the 1971 quake. Why is the region of hazard here broader than the region around the San Andreas fault near Palmdale?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
A red line that’s appeared on the right Map that shows North America and it also reaches up to Alaska. What does it mean?
I know it’s the san andreas fault but why is it marked with the red line?
any other time I’ve looked there never been anything like that there.
If a bomb were to be dropped in the San Andreas Fault, would the result be a massive earthquake?
Like a 7.5 is 300 years past due, ect. Can the USGS predict an earthquake and if so has anyone heard of one suposed to be happening in the san andreas fault?
Can anyone tell me the reason to start the california earthquake in April 18,1906 ???
e.g. plate movement or other resonable reason.
is it relate to the San Andreas fault zone? California is located at North. America plate, is the plate stretching or squeezing or twisting??
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.I know we can’t predict the future, but estimate..I live in Southern California, and rumor has it, the San Andreas fault is long over due, particularly the Southern part of it’s 800 mile scar. Lately, I have been having dreams of this catastrophate Quake occuring.
*catasthropic.spell check..
For geography, i have to create a information bootklet about earthquakes, the San Andreas Fault, the Bay Area of San Francisco and other link to them.
I just don’t understand What is the reason behind to knowing an earthquake will arise by the San Andreas Fault?
Or if i’m completely wrong, can someone explain more about this whole thing? Thankyou.
