Andrew Cowper Lawson ( July 25 , 1861 – June 16 , 1952 ) was a Scots-Canadian geologist who became professor of geology at the University of California , Berkeley . He was the editor and co-author of the 1908 report on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which became known as the " Lawson Report " . He was also the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault in 1895 , and after the 1906 quake , the first to delineate the entire length of the San Andreas Fault which previously had been noted only in the San Francisco Bay Area . He also named the Franciscan Complex
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Andrew Lawson