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San Andreas is a transform fault, also known as a 'strike-slip' fault. These generally do not cause as much damage as a subduction zone event, also known as di
by monkburger 2y ago
San Andreas is a transform fault, also known as a 'strike-slip' fault.
These generally do not cause as much damage as a subduction zone event, also known as dip-slip. An example of this type of event (dip-slip) would be the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, or the violent 1700 Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake.
Personally, Cascadia is /more/ dangerous than any strike-slip earthquakes like SA. We have sedimentation records of massive Cascadia tsunamis going back to about ~900CE.