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BUCKLED ROCK

Where the San Andreas Fault
cuts across the Carrizo Plain
north of Los Angeles, its
relentless creep has distorted
the rocks into a puckered
seam. Stream beds on either
side no longer line up.

STATS AND FACTS

EARTHQUAKE IDENTIFICATION
The San Andreas The catastrophic Geology professor
Fault is one of the San Francisco Andrew Lawson
longest transform earthquake of first identified
faults on land. It is 1906 had a the fault in 1895.
divided into three magnitude of 8.3.
major segments.
The plates are moving
MOVING PLATES slowly by about 2 in
(5 cm) every year.
cm 3 5 7
CREATED
in 1 2 3
ABOUT
28

MILLION
YEARS AGO

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