san andreas fault in English
noun
1
a fault line that extends for about 600 miles (965 km) through the length of coastal California. Seismic activity is common along its course, caused by friction between two crustal plates sliding past each other along the line of the fault.
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1. Are you saying you think the whole San Andreas fault might go off?
2. A Point of View registers diurnal, geologic, and mechanized time in this section of the ever-progressing San Andreas Fault
3. The Chuckwalla Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, rise like an island from a vast sea of sand and rock; within the walls of this "rock fortress" are a variety of landforms, textures, and colors