San Andreas Fault

Topic

San Andreas Fault

Instructions

Watch “How the Earth was made S1 E1 — San Andreas” posted by WorldHistory (2017). Then write a two-full-pages summary and it must include a minimum of 15 fun facts about the San Andreas fault. Your two-page paper must include 1 inch margins, 12 point font that is easily read, and 1.5 inch spacing between lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKYkIgm55QI&list=PLUdmvSwF8eoUyW75KEbHj4FUhBY80NeN1

Answer preview

There are several facts about the San Andreas Fault that have been highlighted by the documentary “How the Earth was made”. First, the documentary provides that the San Andreas Fault is 800 mile-long through California. The San Andreas Fault creates the tectonic frontier found amid the North American Plate and Pacific Plate. There have been 13 earthquakes that have arisen around the San Andreas Fault, the shake out that happened resulted to loss of lives in Los Angeles, and the earthquake ignited fires that caused destruction of property that amounted to millions of money in 1906.

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