Earthquake fault types

collapse earthquakes. There are three main types of geological fault that may cause an earthquake: normal, reverse (thrust) and strike-slip. Normal faults occur...

makes earthquakes. Faulting occurs when shear stress on a rock overcomes the forces which hold it together. The fracture itself is called a fault plane...

later. According to the USGS, the earthquake in the High Atlas region had a unique fault pattern. It involved a steep fault line slanting northwest or a shallow...

years later Nojima Fault (A fault that was responsible for the Great Hanshin earthquake) ISC (2015), ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009)...

causing faults to form along the collision area. The Main Frontal Thrust is the main fault that handles this movement. Throughout history, earthquakes along...

oblique-thrust faulting along the Philippine Trench. The Philippine Sea Plate moved towards the west-northwest compared to the Sunda Plate. The earthquake's impact...

The 1668 North Anatolia earthquake was a very powerful earthquake that struck northcentral Anatolia in the Ottoman Empire (today Turkey) on August 17...

which is an old granite range with faults that likely caused the earthquake. The area also has the Humboldt Fault Zone, which acts as the eastern boundary...

recorded fault movements to have been associated with an earthquake. According to Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the earthquake shifted...

Satake, Kenji; Shishikura, Masanobu (2011). "Fault models of the 1703 Genroku and 1923 Taisho Kanto earthquakes inferred from coastal movements in the southern...

was destroyed by the earthquake and fires that came later. The city is on the San Andreas Fault, which slid, causing the earthquake. Many people looted...

local time Lombok earthquakes (Mw : 6.4 aftershock, 2 dead) 19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake (Mw  6.9 new earthquake, different fault.) On August 5, 2018...

(30 ft) along the Longmen Shan Fault. This fault is about 240 km (149 mi) long and 20 km (12 mi) deep. The earthquake made the ground on the surface move...

Transform or fault boundaries. Here plates grind past each other along transform faults. Earthquakes and volcanoes often occur along the fault. Conservative...

folds, faults, and mountain-building; See Earth science for details. Volcanology – volcanoes on land or under the ocean Seismology – earthquakes and strong...

(5 mi) from the town of Mineral, Virginia. The earthquake was along the Spotsylvania Fault, an ancient fault line that now sits in the middle of the North...

other, creating faults. This area has been geologically active for a very long time, since the end of the Pliocene era. Earthquakes and tsunamis happen...

States Geological Survey explained that these earthquakes happened because of a shallow thrust fault. The fault moved east to west with a dip either north...

Alaska 2018-11-30 17:35:37 (UTC)". earthquake.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-30. "The Latest: Scientists describe fault where quake happened". AP NEWS. 2018-11-30...

The 1999 İzmit earthquake was an approximately 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck northwestern Turkey on August 17, 1999. It happened at around 3:01...