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The San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is 965 km long and is caused by the Northern
Pacific plate sliding north-eastwards past the North American plate at a
rate of about 1 cm per year. Water is pumped into old mines along the
fault to help the rocks slide over each other more easily.