San Andreas, showing stream offset. San Andreas – Carrizo plain.

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San Andreas, showing stream offset

San Andreas – Carrizo plain

San Andreas (aerial, showing geology differences across fault)

San Andreas road cut

San Andreas roadside (ex/ near Gorman)

Tectonic map

San Andreas Map

Mono Craters

SAF at I-55 at Cajon Pass

San Andreas Fault Development

GPS study of the Southern San Andreas Fault

San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)

San Andreas Fault Segments

San Francisco area fault map

Fires burning in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

1906 SF damage

Cool photo of EQ damage from 1906 SAF EQ

Marina District following 1989 EQ (this is mine)

Nimitz Freeway collapse during 1989 Loma Prieta EQ

Parkfield past earthquakes

Van Norman Dam collapse (1971)

I-5 LA collapse (1971)

LA I-5 collapse (1994)

San Gabriel Mountains

Salton Sea, relative to SAF

Southern California faults

Southern California Faults

Anatolian Fault

Alpine Fault

Denali Fault

Dead Sea Fault

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