Abstract
IF it were only for its connexion with the Californian earthquake of 1906, the San Andreas rift would be one of the most interesting fault-systems known. The movements that were the cause of that earthquake took place in the northern half of the rift, from San Juan on the south, with three submarine interruptions, to near Cape Mendocino on the north, a total length of about 270 miles. The rift, however, is known to extend more than 300 miles south of San Juan, as far as the desert regions of southern California.
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D., C. The San Andreas Rift. Nature 119, 834 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119834a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119834a0
