San Andreas a fault with mystique

Whittier Daily News | June 26, 2005| | Copyright

The Golden Gate Bridge. The Hollywood sign. The San Andreas Fault.

Maybe it's not the geologic feature a state would embrace as a cultural icon, but the 800-mile- long boundary where the Pacific tectonic plate and the North American plate grind together is easily the most famous earthquake fault in the world.

"It's the longest. It's the fastest moving. It's the plate boundary. It created the biggest (California) earthquake,' said Lucy Jones, a geologist with Caltech in Pasadena. "All of that plays into its mystique.'

In the relatively short American history of California, it has produced two ...

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