The History of the San Andreas Fault

"We talked about it a lot. It was a thing, maybe if a nuclear bomb went off there, it was going to set off the giant earthquake," he says. "The San Andreas fault looms large in my and I think during that period of time, during the 1970s, there was a lot of interest in geologic stuff" The Dead Sea is 1400 feet below sea level; California's Death Valley is 282 feet lower.