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How faults produce earthquakes?
Faults DO NOT produce earthquakes, faults are produced by earthquakes. This means that earthquake loci are centered on and along faults. The energy released by an earthquake is the stress energy built up as a result of plate tectonic forces.
What does faults mean?
Normal faults are when you have hanging walls that slide down relative to and below the footwall. Dip-slip faults are normal faults.
What are the huge rips in the ground called after an earthquake?
Faults
What two factors do geologists consider when determining earthquake risk for a region?
By locating where faults are active and where past earthquake have occurred.
Why do geologists collect data on friction along the sides of faults?
Geologists collect data on friction along the side of faults so that they can predict how much pressure is applied on the faults so they can predict how strong the earthquake is.
How does the earthquake data confirm that the fracture zones are Transform faults as opposed to transcurrent faults?
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What is something produced by movements of faults around the lithosphere?
Earthquake
What is the measurement of an earthquake's strength based on seismic waves and movements along faults?
An earthquake's magnitude is a measure of its strength.
When does an earthquake occur along a fault?
plates of the earth crash into each other along faults causing an earthquake
Why not all movement along faults produce earthquakes?
Faults DO NOT produce earthquakes, faults are produced by earthquakes. This means that earthquake loci are centered on and along faults. The energy released by an earthquake is the strain energy built up as a result of plate tectonic forces. Some faults move easily and thus no strain energy builds up.
Why do faults in the earth cause earthquake?
Because the earth's plates shift
What faults were involved in the Haiti earthquake?
a new fault line that was undetected had no name
