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San Andreas is a transform fault with two plates sliding past each other. There is also a large bend in the fault (around the LA area). Basically, since these are large rocky plates and not water or something else slippery, they get stuck and tension builds up. When that tension is released as the plates slip, you get an earthquake. The bend makes it more difficult for the plates to slide past each other, which creates more tension, which is why there is such potential for the "big one."
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What makes people live in earthquake areas?
Low cost of housing, near to where they work, they did not know they were living on a underground fault line, good farming area, can not afford to move to another location, earthquakes rarely occur and when they do strike are rarely big enough to cause damage.
Where does a fault form?
A fault-block mountain forms where the edges of two plates come together to create a fault. When one plate pushes up over the other one, the upper one can continue up until it is high enough to create a fault-block mountain.
Does New York have bad earthquakes?
Earthquake are caused by the shifting of earth's plates. Where these plates meet is called a fault. Since there are only 7 major plates that create the earth, there are not many faults. In order for a city to experience an earthquake they must be close to a fault line. And since, New York City is not, they do not experience earth quakes.
How does a Neutral grounding resistor work?
it uses for alternator protection purpose; when fault occures in alternator it resists that fault current to gound . srikanth, kaenataka .
What landforms do earthquakes form?
lEarthquakes cannot have impacts on climate or weather. Earthquakes are quick, infinitesimally small blippy events over geologic time. There may be an area of regular earthquakes that over millions of years can possibly impact those things, but in general, they do not. Faulting may be caused either tensional or compressional forces exerted on rocks either laterally or vertically. The throw on a fault is the amount of offset across the fault. To describe the orientation of the fault, we geologists use the angles strike and dip. Strike is the orientation of the fault's intersection with Earth's surface with reference to north. Dip is the angle that the fault plane makes with Earth's surface measured perpendicular to strike. That's information for you, but don't really concern yourself with it. It takes about half of a semester for college students to begin to understand, because they're counter-intuitive, and require some good compass skills. There are four basic types of faults. The normal fault doesn't mean "normal" as in "most common." What is normal about them is that their movement tends to follow the gravitational pull on the fault blocks involved. The fault plane on the normal fault is generally very steep. In a normal fault the two involved blocks are (by gravity) pulling away from one another causing, one of the fault blocks to slip upward (the hanging wall0 and the other downward (the footwall) with respect to the fault plane (it is hard to determine whether both or just one block has moved without good analysis of local strata). The exposed upward block forms a cliff-like feature known as a fault scarp. A scarp may range from a few to hundreds of meters in height and their length may continue for 300 or more kilometers (around 200 miles). The reverse fault is a normal fault, except the general movement of the fault blocks is toward each other, not away from each other. This forms a thrust fault type expression/landform on the surface with material overlaying other material. This can be seen because older layers may be sitting on top of younger layers, which by the Law of Superposition and Original Horizontality, can't happen. The most famous reverse fault known in the United States may be the Hebgen Lake, or Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake of 1959. The most well known and well studied fault is the transform/transcurrent (strike-slip) fault known as the San Andreas fault of California. This fault marks the margin line between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. Movement on a strike-strip fault is generally horizontal. On the surface, scarps form as hills crossing the fault zone are torn apart by movement over time. Actually anything crossing this fault zone is either slowly torn apart, or offset. Rivers crossing the fault line are called offset streams and are classic signatures of fault activity along the San Andreas and other transform fault zones. These faults can be very long - the San Andreas is nearly 600 miles long, from just north of the Sea of Cortez to north of San Francisco. Finally, we have thrust faults. In the 1994 Northridge, California event, a deep thrust fault located about 18 km under the city of Los Angeles produced an earthquake that registered a magnitude of 6.7. When thrust faults are exposed on the surface, overburden material lies over the main block. They are normally associated with areas of folded surfaces and or mountaineous regions. The dip angles of thrust faults are normally not as steep as a normal fault/reverse fault. Chief Mountain, in Montana is a good example of a thrust mountain studied by us geologists. Grabens (sometimes called rift valleys) are the subsidence of the land between two normal faults. These can be hundreds of miles in length. Some well known grabben valleys are the Red Sea Basin, the Alamosa Valley of Colorado, The Rift Valley of East Africa, the the mid-region of Arizona. Horsts, are the relatively rare opposites of grabbens. A horst (sometimes called block mountains) is an uprisings of a fault block with scarps on either side. I will add the caveat of a fifth type of fault. Often the slip on a fault is not perfectly dip slip or strike slip. We call such faults oblique slip, when they're too far off from being described adequately by the other terms. Obviously, all of these things take place of long periods of time. You won't have 100m of horizontal or vertical offset at one time (if you did, it would mean that there was something seriously wrong with the Earth). As soon as any surface is available, the forces of erosion will begin to work on them, and given enough time, can turn horsts, or reverse faults, and so on into regular rounded features that no one outside of geologists like myself would probably ever take any notice of. A study of outcrop bedrock geology will often show not just that faulting occurred, but you can actually walk up and lay your cheek right against the fault plane - that'
How do sunamis work?
its spelled tsunamis, and they are commonly caused by underwater earthquakes that cause massive waves.
What makes people live in earthquake areas?
Low cost of housing, near to where they work, they did not know they were living on a underground fault line, good farming area, can not afford to move to another location, earthquakes rarely occur and when they do strike are rarely big enough to cause damage.
When was We Can Work It Out - Andreas Johnson song - created?
We Can Work It Out - Andreas Johnson song - was created in 2010.
Can you play San Andreas PS2 in PS1?
No GTA San Andreas will not work in a PS1
2001 ford f-350 transmission wont shift?
Check VSS or wiring to it could cause fault .does speedometer work?
What would cause taillights and front marker lights to not work when fuses are good and all other lights work on a 97 Tahoe?
I'm thinkin' the headlight switch is at fault.
If an employee dies on the job is this covered under Workmens Compensation?
It would depend on the cause of death. If the employer is at fault then yes.
How can you contact Andreas hippe inc who does remodeling in Florida?
Andreas hippe inc--owner Andreas hippe, can be contacted at 386-532-7284 . he does remodeling in central fl and surrounding countys. his specialty is flooring and complete remodel of bath and kitchen. stone work, marble, granite, woods, he can also be googled at Andreas hippe or Andreas hippe inc. he is on myspace for info under Andreas hippe. his work is craftmanship at finest.
How does a standby earth fault relay work?
As per my openion standby earth fault relay work on zero impedance measurement, when earth fault occures than zero
Will San Andreas work on PS3?
No it is a PS2 game and will not work on a PS3 that is not backwards compatable
Who was a flemish doctor known for his work in anatomy?
Andreas Vesalius
How does Bolivia cope with their earthquakes and volcanoes?
They work together!
