The san andreas fault?

3 comments

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   Bubbavet on June 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   You might want to revise your material a little bit. The San Andreas Fault was identified in 1895 by Professor Andrew Lawson who named it for a small lake that was created at the end of the fault area. The Fault is identified as a right lateral slip type fault meaning the two plates slide past each other during a quake condition. The (Earth) plates you referenced are called the tectonic plates. The western plate is called the Pacific plate and the eastern plate is called the mainland or continental plate. The Fault separates these two plates.

   Using what you have I would probably suggest you rewrite it like this:

   The two (earth) plates moved past each other and created the fault line. Hope this helps a little.

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   Jesus on June 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   ….do you even know what correct english is? I hope this is a joke because you obviously can’t spell worth shit! In my opinion, let someone with more than half a brain write your presentation.

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   George I on June 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm

   i’d rather put my money on Peter Kay (a fat bloke from northern England – look him up) seducing Angelina Jolie than you giving an even vaguely coherent presentation on this but here goes…

   it did not begin in 1857, this has been there for millions of years. it is a conservative margin between the Pacific plate and the North American plate. the two plates are moving past one another, with the border between them known as a ‘fault’. friction causes locking along the fault until a critical level is met, leading to the pressure being released as sections of the crust move suddenly. it is this movement that causes an earthquake (that’s when the ground shakes).

   this happened in 1906 on the San Andreas fault with an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Moment Magnitude scale