Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant: The WikiBook/San Andreas
Fault According to public domain material from the US Geological
Survey, posted at a website in the dot-gov domain, the San
Andreas fault includes "several branching faults...[which] share
the movement of the crustal plates ... [t]he fault zone is
marked by distinctive landforms that include long straight
escarpments, narrow ridges, and small undrained ponds formed by
the settling of small blocks within the zone. Many stream
channels characteristically jog sharply to the right where they
cross the fault...[b]locks on opposite sides of the San Andreas
fault move horizontally. If a person stood on one side of the
fault and looked across it, the block on the opposite side would
appear to have moved to the right. Geologists refer to this type
fault displacement as right-lateral strike-slip." Source: Sandra
S. Schulz and Robert E. Wallace It is believed that
"[d]isplacement from earthquakes and creep is at least 350 miles
along the San Andreas fault since