Given the question: Information: - The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal). The fault divides into three segments, each with different characteristics and a different degree of earthquake risk, the most significant being the southern segment, which passes within about 35 miles (56km) of Los Angeles. - The Maacama Fault is a right lateral - moving ( dextral ) geologic fault located in the Coast Ranges of northwestern California . It is considered to be the northernmost segment of the Hayward Fault subsystem of the San Andreas Fault zone . Creep along the Maacama is about 8 mm per year , consistent with the steady movement along the rest of the Hayward Fault system . It is also capable of producing large earthquakes . The Maacama Fault runs just east of Ukiah and just west of Willits . - California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. - The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Russia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. It extends eastward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia. The plate includes both continental and oceanic crust. The interior of the main continental landmass includes an extensive granitic core called a craton. Along most of the edges of this craton are fragments of crustal material called terranes, accreted to the craton by tectonic actions over the long span of geologic time. It is thought that much of North America west of the Rocky Mountains is composed of such terranes. - The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'maacama fault' exhibits the relationship of 'continent'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - antarctica - asia - australia - north america
The answer is:
north america