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Title: TECTONIC CREEP
Caption: Slow, continual movement along the San Andreas fault has split this concrete drainage ditch at Almaden Vineyards south of Hollister, California. For scale, there is a person's shoe and blue pant leg in the upper-left corner of the image. (James A. Sugar/NGS Image Collection)
Keywords: earthquakes, earthquake damage, destruction, San Andreas Fault, strike-slip faults