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The most infamous of these, the San Andreas fault line, runs through the San Francisco peninsula and was responsible for an estimated 7.7 magnitude earthquake that leveled San Francisco in 1906.

A fault map of the southern part of the State shows the three parallel faults — the Elsinore fault furthest west, the San Jacinto fault about 20-30 miles to the east, and the main San Andreas ...

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All times on the map are Pacific time. The New York Times A minor, 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Though less of a household name than the San Andreas fault, the Hayward fault poses a significant risk, the agency said in a 2018 report.

It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest’s Cascadia subduction zone and California’s San Andreas Fault system meet. The quake itself occurred on the Mendocino fault zone.