Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun san_andreas_fault

1 sense of san andreas fault

Sense 1
San Andreas Fault -- (a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes)
       INSTANCE OF=> fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break -- ((geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust")