San Andreas Fault Recent Activity 2024

San Andreas Fault Recent Activity 2024. The southern san andreas fault in california is in a seismic drought, going more than 300 years without a major earthquake. The san andreas fault marks the boundary where the north american tectonic plate and the pacific plate grind past each other.

California’s san andreas fault has been quiet for far too long and is overdue for a major earthquake, a leading geoscientist has announced. Southern california’s last big one was in 1857, when an earthquake with a magnitude of roughly 7.9 ruptured 225 miles of fault on the san andreas, between.