The Unseen Power Beneath Our Feet Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of incredible power. The Earth’s crust is a dynamic ...

The San Andreas fault line caused destruction and distinction in California. Ray Isle offers an itinerary to explore the ...

The earthquakes are a result of the Northern Pacific and North American plates rubbing ... racing by feeling a small movement come from the ground. The San Andreas Fault can even be seen during ...

Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is ...

Movement along the San Andreas Fault was to blame. The North American and Pacific tectonic plates had moved past each other by more than 15 feet — compared to an annual average of two inches.

To understand the importance of this movement ... 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 ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic ... Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.

The second hit in the Pacific Ocean, about 47 miles west of Petrolia, on the San Andreas fault that ... result from the constant movement of tectonic plates, which are massive, solid slabs of ...

A boundary where the plates slide past one another without ... An example of this type of boundary is the San Andreas fault, California.