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This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...

California, which sits on the earthquake-prone “Ring of Fire,” which encompasses the land masses that border the Pacific Ocean, is also home to the San Andreas fault. This fault represents the ...

Now, the bulge of material trapped between these same two plates is being ejected towards the east, thanks in part to the Sagaing fault. As far as faults are concerned, the San Andreas Fault in ...