Sesar San Andreas
Sesar San Andreas adalah pergeseran sesar di California, Amerika Serikat, yang memiliki panjang 1.300 km. Patahan ini membentuk batas tektonik antara Lempeng Pasifik dan Lempeng Amerika Utara.
Sesar San Andreas di Dataran Carrizo.
Patahan San Andreas pertama kali ditemukan di California Utara oleh profesor geologi Berkeley Andrew Lawson tahun 1895. Setelah gempa bumi San Francisco 1906, Lawson menemukan bahwa Sesar San Andreas membentang hingga ke California Selatan.
Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai San Andreas Fault.
- The Parkfield Experiment Diarsipkan 2004-09-22 di Wayback Machine.
- San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth Diarsipkan 2004-04-01 di Wayback Machine.
- Southern California Earthquake Data Center: San Andreas Fault Diarsipkan 2007-05-18 di Wayback Machine.
- USGS: The San Andreas Fault
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) study indicating that an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater is "overdue." Diarsipkan 2007-03-02 di Wayback Machine.
- Source for the Carrizo Plain images (USGS)
- "Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country" Diarsipkan 2012-07-20 di Wayback Machine. at JPL
- Latest Earthquakes (USGS)
- The Day California Cracks at BusinessWeek online (09/19/05)
- Google Maps Satellite View on Geology.com
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