As lake quail is a dammed river and lies directly over the San Andrea fault and transform boundary with the North American plate on the northward side and the pacific plate on the southern side and a stream rises in the Pine Valley Mountains and flows to the southeasterly direction.
The pacific plate is moving in the northwest direction due to the seafloor spreading from the eastern pacific rise. while the North America is being pushed to the southwest due to the spreading of the seafloor in the mid-Atlantic ridge.
