[ETL]

I've always been told that the western side of the San Andreas fault belonged to the pacific plate, while the east is part of the continental plate. That sounds pretty deep and long to me.

Not nearly as deep as a subduction zone plate interaction, where one plate is being driven under another. In the case of SA, the 2 plates are merely sliding past each other.

[tophat9000]

well I’m not sure if it’s technically part of the one San Andreas fault...faults are like rivers with tributaries that forms a whole system

And i belive the main California fault ..system ..runs north out of San Francisco Bay into the ocean and south down the middle of the Gulf of California between Baja and mainland Mexico it to.the ocean

it why you have two long bays San Francisco Bay and Gulf of California at both ends of the fault.. they are the points the fault go off in to the ocean