| has gloss | eng: The Monta Vista Fault is a potentially active geologic fault, i.e., a fault capable of generating destructive earthquakes, in Santa Clara County, California, USA. It is a relatively short fault that runs between and generally parallel to the much longer San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault zones, trending northwest along the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the Coast Range Geomorphic Province. The most recent activity was estimated to had been approximately 700,000 years ago. However, a recent magnitude 2.6 earthquake has been attributed to this fault. |
