Where is the San Andreas fault line? And under how many States does it run?

Answer 1

Drive Interstate Highway 5 from just south of Gilroy California to L.A. and you'll be right on the fault line. The fault also extends into the Pacific where it meets the bottom of the ocean north of San Fransisco. All of these places are of course in California.

Answer 2

The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometres) through western and southern California in the United States. The fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault, marks a transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

Answer 3

Hi: the San Andreas fault line runs under all of California and down into the southern Pacific ocean between the Baja peninsula and up in to Mexico.

Answer 4

From Wikipedia:

The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometres) through western and southern California in the United States.

The fault runs in California, the site said that it goes offshore briefly before returning to land.

A bit hard to explain, look at this site, it will answer your question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault

Answer 5

The San Andreas fault line runs basically along the west coast of North America, beginning basically in northern mexico all the way to the San Francisco Bay area and northward, it basically runs mainly through california.

Answer 6

The San Andreas fault forms a continuous narrow break in the Earth's crust that extends from northern California southward to Cajon Pass near San Bernardino. Southeastward from Cajon Pass several branching faults, including the San Jacinto and Banning faults, share the movement of the crustal plates. In this stretch of the fault zone, the name "San Andreas" generally is applied to the northeastern most branch.

Answer 7

its only in Calif. It is the principal fault of an intricate network of faults extending more than 600 mi (965 km) from NW California to the Gulf of California. The San Andreas fault, a strike-slip fault, also extends vertically at least 20 mi (30 km) into the earth.

Aint calif a great place to live??? i love it

Answer 8

THe san andreas fault line is a line of like earthquaks! it runs all through cali and i think thats the only state! look it up on the internet to learn more.

Answer 9

Just California. Then it goes out to sea.

Here's a pic:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/01/images/san_andreas_fault.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/01/09_quakes.shtml&h=348&w=289&sz=35&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=IglymbDGqsVJkM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsan%2Bandreas%2Bfault%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Answer 10

california. 1.