SAN ANDREAS: The Fault That Could Redraw America

California is moving. Most years, that movement is measured in millimeters. During a major San Andreas rupture, sections of the ground could shift by meters in less than two minutes. This documentary follows the forces that shaped western North America—from the breakup of Pangaea and the birth of the San Andreas Fault to fault locking, rupture propagation, Cajon Pass, Walker Lane, and a modeled M7.8 disaster across Southern California. What happens to highways, water lines, power corridors, hospitals, and communities when the fault finally moves? And could today’s scattered fault systems eventually redraw the western edge of the continent? This video presents published research and modeled scenarios—not an earthquake prediction. A single earthquake would not split the United States into separate continents. The thumbnail is a dramatized visualization of deep-time continental change. #SanAndreas #Earthquake #California #Geology #NaturalDisaster