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Thrust fault: Active: 2008 Sichuan (M8.0) Lost River Fault: Idaho, United States: Normal: Active: 1983 Borah Peak (M6.9) Lusatian Fault: Germany: Thrust fault: Macquarie Fault Zone >400: South Pacific Ocean: Fault (geology)#Strike-slip faults: Active: 1989 Maquarie Isl. (8.2), 2008 Macquarie Island earthquake (M7.1) Mae Chan Fault: 120 ...
A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A fault trace or fault line is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault. [3] [4] A fault zone is a cluster of parallel faults.
Three earthquakes in a 30 minutes period. Minor damages in households. Many people spent the night out in the street. [6] 2021-01-23 Granada, Andalusia: 4.2 M w IV 1 Minor damage/Part of an earthquake swarm [7] [8] 2016-01-25: Alboran Sea: 6.3 M w: VI 1 30+ Moderate damage [9] 2011-05-11: Lorca, Murcia: 5.1 M w: VIII 9 403 Damage to a ...
Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. Earthquakes occur when two plates suddenly slip past each other, setting off seismic waves that ...
These lines allow tectonic plates to move and earthquakes occur when two plates slide past each other. The Ramapo Fault System is the longest in the northeastern U.S., stretching from Pennsylvania ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
A multi-year study published in 2018 suggests a connection between the Elsinore fault and other fault lines farther south, in Mexico: "...observations of the Yuha Desert and Salton Trough suggest that the 2010 M7.2 El Mayor ‐ Cucapah earthquake rupture, the Laguna Salada fault in Baja California, Mexico, and the Elsinore fault in California ...
The Valencia Trough consists of extended continental crust. At the deepest point the Mohorovičić discontinuity ("Moho") is only 8 km deep, whereas under the mainland it is 32 km down. Beneath the Balearics the depth rises back to 23–25 km. Other points under the Valencia Trough axis have a Moho at 15 to 10 km down.