Messing around on Google Earth recently I noticed a number of striations in the Eastern Pacific. These appear in an East-West orientation and seem to start on the North and South American continental shelves, and extend for roughly half the Pacific Ocean. For example one of these striations start in Santa Rosa Island off California and ends at Hawaii. These striations also appear to be roughly equally spaced at 8 degree intervals. The North and South American striations are angled with respect to each other and seem to converge at roughly Tahiti.

What causes these? I'm a fascinated novice.

**EDIT**

Some images to make things clearer (North Pole is top left):

Note the regularly spaced East-West parallel striations starting from the Equator and stepping north. In fact the striation on the Equator covers the entire Pacific.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LVJJZ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LVJJZ.jpg)

Here a closer shot also shows fainter striations fanning out from Los Angeles:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCBk8.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCBk8.jpg)