But the fault went quiet, and the next large temblor didn’t arrive until 2004. Think of the fence line looking like this except that gap was about 10 feet. The seemingly predictable pattern fascinated geologists, who flocked to the area in the 1980s and ’90s in hopes of capturing one of the quakes as it happened. The fault line runs north to south and there is a famous spot where a fence crossed this line and was split in half during the 1906 earthquake near San Francisco. Over the past 164 years, the Central Coast town in southern Monterey County has experienced a record of seven roughly magnitude-6.0 earthquakes. It gained the distinction because it lies on top of a unique part of the San Andreas Fault that consistently produces a strong temblor every couple decades. Because the fault runs along heavily populated regions of the state, it is often a topic of discussion, as a major earthquake there could be a very serious problem for California. The “Earthquake Capital of the World,” tiny Parkfield, California, didn’t earn the title by having the biggest or even the most earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault is a major geologic fault that runs along the coast of Northern California, veering inland as it approaches Southern California. Here’s why New San Andreas study to look at how a creeping fault affects the places where we live California has an earthquake early warning system.
The town marks a transition zone where the fault goes from creeping (the two sides continuously sliding freely without major earthquakes) to. We begin our tour of the southern San Andreas Fault at the remote town of Parkfield, a world-famous place in the realm of seismology. Life on the San Andreas: Tiny Parkfield is unshaken as ‘Earthquake Capital of the World’ This California town is one of the most studied earthquake locations on Earth. San Andreas Fault, Part 1: Parkfield, Cholame & Annette, California.
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