The San Andreas Fault is the line between the Pacific Plate (which is oceanic) and the North American Plate (which is a land or continental plate), and it’s a transform boundary.

The San Andreas Fault, a notorious tectonic boundary known for producing devastating earthquakes, is showing signs that many experts believe warrant serious attention.

Map showing the area of the San Andreas Fault that the researchers studied. Rebecca Dzombak. In their research, the team looked at historical records of earthquakes in the region stretching back ...

Even though the San Andreas fault, the main boundary fault between the Pacific and the North American plates, is the most studied fault in the world, scientists are only slowly unearthing its ...

The San Andreas fault, which triggered the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the deadly fires that followed, runs from the Southern California desert to northern California and marks the boundary ...

The most well-known examples is the San Andreas Fault in California. Each type of fault line represents a different kind of stress—tension, compression, or shear—acting on the Earth’s crust.

Scientists studying the San Andreas fault in California will soon be able to monitor seismic activity from deep inside the Earth's crust so they can identify patterns that might foreshadow a major ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. ... Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.

Large sections of southern California are slowly rising or sinking, a groundbreaking new study shows. Researchers have observed for the first time that, along portions of the San Andreas fault, lan… ...

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. To the east is the North American ...