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San Andreas Lake is a reservoir adjacent to the San Francisco Peninsula cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in San Mateo County, California. It is situated directly on the San Andreas Fault , which is named after the valley it is in. [ 1 ]
The reservoirs are located in the rift valley created by the San Andreas Fault just to the west of the cities of San Mateo and Hillsborough, and I-280. The lakes are part of the San Mateo Creek watershed. Crystal Springs Regional Trail runs along the reservoir.
San Andreas Lake. Bean Hollow Lake ; Bear Gulch Reservoir ; Big Lagoon ; Central Lake ; Crocker Lake; Reservoir de los Frijoles (1663965, 1663967) Knuedler Lake ...
The 800-mile San Andreas Fault is one of the largest fault lines in the world. A meeting of the North American and Pacific tectonic plates, this transform fault (where two tectonic plates move ...
San Andreas Lake: San Andreas Dam: San Mateo Creek tributary: San Mateo: City and County of San Francisco: 1870: Earth: 107: 33: 19,027: 23,470 San Antonio Reservoir: James H. Turner Dam: San Antonio Creek: Alameda: City and County of San Francisco: 1964: Earth: 193: 59: 50,500: 62,300 San Antonio Reservoir: San Antonio Dam: San Antonio Creek ...
The Franciscan Complex or Franciscan Assemblage is a geologic term for a late Mesozoic terrane of heterogeneous rocks found throughout the California Coast Ranges, and particularly on the San Francisco Peninsula. It was named by geologist Andrew Lawson, who also named the San Andreas Fault that defines the western extent of the assemblage. [1]
A National Science Foundation funded project called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) near Parkfield, California, involved drilling through the fault from 2004 to 2007. The aim was to collect core samples and make direct geophysical and geochemical observations to better understand fault behavior at depth.
The last big earthquake in this area on the San Andreas caused one part of the fault to move past the other by 12 to 14 feet, making it a likely magnitude 7.3 or 7.4 earthquake.