San Andreas Fault
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The San Andreas Fault is a tear fault. The fault is over 1 000 km long. Most of it runs through California, USA. The city of San Francisco lies directly over it.
The city San Francisco is on the North American plate and the city Los Angeles is on the Pacific plate. The people in California often have to survive earthquakes because the two plates move.They have to be well prepared for earthquakes.
The San Andreas fault was discovered by professor Andrew Lawson in 1895
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