NASA 3D View of the San Andreas Fault!
Posted By Richard Ault On June 25, 2009 @ 2:18 pm In SF in Pictures, San Francisco, Science | Comments Disabled
From Nov. last year, but posted recently as a NASA image of the day we bring you a killer 3D view of the San Andreas Fault [1] running up the peninsula and out to see north of Pacifica. This project is about mapping which parts of the fault are creeping past each other with little “stickiness,” and which parts appear to be locked together—places where pent-up stress may be released suddenly in a major earthquake.
San Andreas Fault Satellite Imagery
To read more about NASA’s mission to map the San Andreas and related faults with radar imagery, please read Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country [2].
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[1] 3D view of the San Andreas Fault: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39018
[2] Scientists Search for a Pulse in Skies Above Earthquake Country: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2190
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