San Andreas Fault

[latourguide]

To reiterate for the nonresidents and visitors, yes earthquakes are a concern and something to prepare for with strict structural building codes, safety precautions and measures to take!

Earthquakes are part of life here and have helped form our beautiful scenery, mostly along or near coastal mid and southern California!

[thewizardqt]

where is it located?im scared of this happening if the fault line breaks up the 1/4of california will be gone.

[latourguide]

@thewizardqt The first part of the vid is along interstate 5 less than one hour drive north of Los Angeles, then continues a few miles north through Frazier Park. If the fault slips it may be just sectional as a small earthquake, or a moderate 'quake registering 5 to 6 on the Richter scale, or "the big one" at around 8 on the scale. Even with the worst case scenario...the damage being severe with many buildings and you'd loose your balance and fall down if in the area, there's no separation!

[sharanjack]

nice road trip to past

[latourguide]

@sharanjack Thanks for the comment which I agree since this is one of my favorite places to drive and hike around, a beautiful place formed by the uplifting of the earth. I especially wanted to review this vid after seeing the news about the earthquake along the east coast and hearing a prominent seismologist discussing the difference here with the visible surface fault features. The plate's movements causes the buckling, like wrinkles in a blanket, revealing layers of the past!

[Mrleafsfan71]

so is the pacific plate on the left of the road and the north american plate on the right of the road

[latourguide]

@Mrleafsfan71 The first part of the video along I-5 to the left is literally on the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate on the right, notice how the hillside goes down (like the tip of the iceberg and so much more) with the smooth portion of land to the right of and beside the road which is landfill in the crevasse including beneath the road in some places. The second part of the video shows the fault to the left side of the road, eerily more prominent with crevasse dips and ridges

[666Vredesbyrd]

nice road trip ;-))

[ORANGEWOODFBS]

my cabin is up there

[latourguide]

@ORANGEWOODFBS I hope to have a cabin up there also, that's a really awesome place!!! I don't fear the danger so much if the fault slips now with earthquake preparedness and seismic construction methods, as long as the property doesn't straddle the fault line for the offset separation potential as evidenced in the past. With this kind of fault and the landfill within it, the structures and roads would "float" on their isolated base construction. Just stay clear of the big rigs on I-5!

[clydeburkey]

nice drive ...is the car you in a ford focus?

[jennifrier]

go to Palmdale Ca you can see the fault from the 14 freeway there is also a mountain where you can go run that's sitting right on the fault

[joseph0487]

really? I live in san diego and it scares me to imagine it.

[loco4vicodin1]

@joseph0487The San Andres fault doesn't run through San Diego, that's why Diego don't really get big ass earthquakes. The biggest is 6.5, and that's just the after shock of the Baja quake. However Diego does got fault lines, but when you feel em they're like 3s 4s 5s including ones you can't even really feel. SD don't got buildings falling big ass cracks on the concrete no North ridge or San Francisco type shit. I dont know if it could happen, but statistically i doubt it would.

[SnowVixen89]

I'm coming to southern California soon. I'm actually going to encounter the San Andreas fault for the very first time! I can't wait to touch it!

[latourguide]

Touch it with you feet as you hike thru it as I have, an awesome feeling to straddle the edge of the earth in one of the few places to actually see a major fault at the surface. I just flew in a plane passing along the mountains near San Bernadino just west of the I-215 and I-15 I could clearly see the fault going eastbound, then on a return flight once again, clearly visable from the air! You can also see this by going to Google Earth or Google Maps, satellite view.

[SnowVixen89]

Awsome!

[loco4vicodin1]

@latourguide Beautiful beautiful video

[latourguide]

@loco4vicodin1 Thanks for the nice comment! Strangely I go hiking up there. :)

[MrBitchen]

Geological time is not the same scale as the hours and minutes we think of as time. Saying that we're "due for the 'Big One'" is saying it on our terms of time. It could be thousands of years away. Pressure builds-up, but sometimes is relieved by smaller quakes. The more smaller quakes we have along the fault, the more pressure is relieved, and the less likely the fault will rupture in that one great lurch we are all fearing.

[KCRC2009]

We Are Overdue For A Major Quake Here In The New Madrid Fault Area In NE Arkansas And SE Missouri.

[Streaky1986]

I live in Bend and even here in the Cascade Mountains, there have been tiny seismic disturbances, the strongest I felt was on July 3rd i think...

[amgv8400]

You are correct Latourguide, we are due for the "Big One" I live up in the northern california (bay area) and we have been having alot of earthquakes that range 1.0-3.8 in the past few months.

[latourguide]

Beware!! The fault rupture is long overdue and 3/24 and 3/25 the lower end of the fault had nearby fragment fault earthquakes leading local seismologists to speculate about the impending "big one" earthquake set off as a result! 3/25/09

[ExopoliticalIdealist]

@latourguide ha this statement practically correlates to what is happening right now.

[amgv8400]

Great video, I drove by there last year in July on I-5. First thing came to mind I was riding along the San Andreas....