Who was San Andreas of the fault?

Answer 1

Its a fracture in the Earth's crust.

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.

The presence of the San Andreas fault was brought dramatically to world attention on April 18, 1906, when sudden displacement along the fault produced the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. This earthquake, however, was but one of many that have resulted from episodic displacement along the fault throughout its life of about 15-20 million years.

Answer 2

San Andreas stood on top of a mountain overlooking the valley below and he dropped a small pebble and dislodged a HUGE bolder. The boulder fell from the mountain top to the valley below and caused a great riff in the ground, and as legend goes handed down for generations, everyone said that it was San Andreas Fault. His family had to move from California to Arizonia, and now they are blamed for the Grand Canyon also.

Answer 3

I love how you phrased your question.
i went to my old standby, wikipedia and found this:
The fault was first identified in Northern California by U.C. Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895, and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas. Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, it was Lawson who also discovered that the San Andreas Fault stretched well southward into Southern California.

and then i found this:
Settled by Mexicans in 1848 and named after the Catholic parish St. Andrew, the town (san andreas) has been a noted mining camp since early days.


hope it was useful....

Answer 4

San Andreas was a Spanish explorer.He was born in 1356 and died in 1407.He was determined to find the USA,he had heard the legends of old.He set off on this epic voyage and failed to find this famed land.So it was his "fault" that we had to wait until 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He never lost the name....San Andreas of the Fault.

Answer 5

The fault was named for the lake of the same name. The lake was named after another one of the zillion saints whose names the early Spanish priests bestowed on everything that they saw to replace whatever original names the previous godless people had called them.

Answer 6

It's the name of a valley.

Answer 7

its not a person
it is a geographical feature in California

Answer 8

I DONT NO

Answer 9

WHAT ???