The kind of fault you may be contemplating about is a transform fault which occurs like all earth quakes when the Earth's tectonic plates move as sea currents change there appearance.
A transform fault is the force of two surfaces rubbing across each other creating huge earth quakes like the ones of 1906 and 1989 in San Andreas.
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A normal one.
transform boundary
transform boundary
it is a normal fault.
the Hayward fault is a "transform" fault. :)
a compression force would cause a normal fault. i rember by the name compress "press" together
It is a strike-slip of transform fault.
thrust or reverse fault,
Everybody's fault except the javanese.
sliding
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