{"id":50425,"date":"2019-10-30T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ingenio.lanthemes.com\/en\/?p=50425"},"modified":"2021-05-03T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T07:40:59","slug":"san-andreas-fault-length-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingeoexpert.com\/en\/2019\/10\/30\/san-andreas-fault-length-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"San Andreas fault: length and earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Andreas fault travels 1300 km through the California state and Lower California in Mexico. It is one of the most famous faults due to its very active seismic activity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Faults are one of the main causes of earth movement. California is a specially affected area for this type of geographical accident, having more than one hundred localized faults. San Andreas fault is formed by a set of tectonic segments, the central area shifts 25 mm per year on average and in some of the end zones up to 30 mm per year.<\/span><\/p>\n

This place belongs to the Ring of fire of the Pacific which travels by land the coast of different countries around the Pacific and Indic Ocean and where you can find most of the more active areas seismically and volcanically.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is the San Andreas fault?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are in continuous movement since millions of years ago. Two of these tectonic plates are in the California state, giving birth to the San Andreas fault. It is a break in the earth’s crust that crosses up until the golf of California and that has some ramifications that form smaller faults.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to scientists, the movement of the tectonic plates will provoke that the peninsula of Lower California slowly shifts to the north and in 50000 years It will separate from Mexico and become on an island.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earthquake of the San Andrea fault<\/b><\/h2>\n

The west of the United States of America is a zone with a lot of seismic activity and the state of California is one of the most affected by earthquakes. In April of 1906 a shift of the tectonic plates originated an earthquake among the most fateful of history. With an intensity of 8 degrees in the Richter scale, the San Andreas earthquake had its epicenter near San Francisco and an 8 degrees intensity in the Richter scale that caused 3000 casualties and a completely ruined city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, the San Andreas fault has had a noteworthy seismic activity:<\/span><\/p>\n