San Andreas Fault

CalTran’s Gleason MegaBridge Debacle: San Andreas fault lies .7 miles off-shore, fault branch runs directly through the construction site

Climate, Coastal Issues, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News / December 3, 2020

GLEASON BEACH DEBACLE BY CalTrans Dear Editor: We wish to correct a substantive mistake and a mistaken impression contained in the article about the “Gleason Beach CalTrans Realignment” by Rosanna Xia, published in the LA Times, November 27th, 2020. The substantive mistake concerned the reason for the 28’ altitude of this immense bridge over a …

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Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San Andreas Fault

Climate, News / January 9, 2023

“Some regions in the Salinas basin were lifting at about 1.5 centimeters per year, a little over half an inch. This uplift was a first indication that fluid pressures are out of balance in parts of the San Ardo oil field.” Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San …

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