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  • Thumbnail for Fault (geology)
    In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass...
    33 KB (3,698 words) - 02:05, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Madrid seismic zone
    Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of...
    32 KB (3,787 words) - 05:38, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seattle Fault
    The Seattle Fault is a zone of multiple shallow east–west thrust faults that cross the Puget Sound Lowland and through Seattle (in the U.S. state of Washington)...
    35 KB (3,384 words) - 20:33, 10 November 2024
  • NE‐trending faults Karioi Fault Wahianoa Fault Snowgrass Fault Shawcroft Road Fault Moawhango Fault This most northerly of the cross faults extends 24 km...
    12 KB (1,013 words) - 18:57, 29 July 2024
  • No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow...
    43 KB (5,309 words) - 15:41, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hayward Fault Zone
    The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The fault was first named in the...
    55 KB (6,715 words) - 18:48, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for San Andreas Fault
    The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state...
    41 KB (4,304 words) - 04:04, 14 November 2024
  • either by dislocation glide or cross-slip. Lower SFE materials display wider stacking faults and have more difficulties for cross-slip. The SFE modifies the...
    9 KB (1,228 words) - 13:26, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Highland Boundary Fault
    Where rivers cross the fault, they often pass through gorges, and the associated waterfalls can be a barrier to salmon migration. The fault is believed...
    15 KB (1,566 words) - 10:04, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ramapo Fault
    The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. Spanning more than 185 miles (298 km)...
    18 KB (2,264 words) - 17:57, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fault tree analysis
    Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a type of failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is examined. This analysis method is mainly used in safety...
    33 KB (4,004 words) - 18:56, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moab Fault
    The Moab Fault, near Moab, Utah, United States, is an extensional fault that runs approximately NW-SE, passing to the west of the Arches National Park...
    16 KB (1,910 words) - 15:49, 8 September 2024
  • The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American coming-of-age romance film directed by Josh Boone from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber...
    76 KB (6,502 words) - 11:18, 17 November 2024
  • Teletsunamis can cross ocean basins to devastate areas far from the original earthquake. The term megathrust refers to an extremely large thrust fault, typically...
    21 KB (2,216 words) - 01:01, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cross-cutting relationships
    (1830). There are several basic types of cross-cutting relationships: Structural relationships may be faults or fractures cutting through an older rock...
    5 KB (633 words) - 17:46, 5 September 2024
  • types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults. Many faults may have acted as both normal faults at one time and...
    71 KB (758 words) - 16:35, 1 September 2024
  • 2010 Canterbury earthquake (category Seismic faults of New Zealand)
    proposed a four-fault model consisting of a 6.5 Mw quake on the Charing Cross fault, followed by a 7.0 Mw quake on the Greendale Fault, and a 6.2 Mw quake...
    106 KB (9,222 words) - 02:27, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Puget Sound faults
    Island Fault (SWIF) Rogers Belt (Mount Vernon Fault/Granite Falls Fault Zone) Cherry Creek Fault Zone Rattlesnake Mountain Fault Zone Seattle Fault Tacoma...
    178 KB (20,732 words) - 17:30, 10 November 2024
  • types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults. Many faults may have acted as both normal faults at one time and...
    30 KB (660 words) - 16:41, 1 September 2024
  • the Dent Fault at its southeastern end. Rocks of Ordovician and Silurian age outcrop between the two main strands of the fault, forming the Cross Fell inlier...
    1 KB (142 words) - 02:42, 4 October 2019
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