san andreas fault

English Thesaurus

1. a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift,
definition	:	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (noun.object)

part meronym	:	ca, calif., california, golden state,
definition	:	a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes (noun.location)