A Few Facts About the San Andreas Fault

• On April 18, 1906, the San Francisco earthquake moved this fenceline along the San Andreas faultline. Three hundred miles of the faultline was affected.

• The San Andreas fault is 810 miles long.

• The fault was first discovered by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895.

• All land west of the Pacific plate is moving northwest, while all the land east of the fault is moving southwest.