Seismic waves are released when rock moves along a fault. These waves are the ones that cause earthquakes.
Energy is released and earthquakes happen.
If the fault is responsible for the earthquake, there will be movement (displacement) along the fault.
fault breccia
That's called an earthquake.
Faults are breaks in the crust where the crust has moved. The types of dip-slip faults are normal and reverse faults. In both of these, the movement is along the slope of the fault. Sudden movements along these faults can produce fault scarps. Layers of rock being misaligned is evidence of fault movement. Fault creep is caused by slow movement along the fault.In a normal fault, the plates are moving away from each other. This is due to tension. When the fault moves, the footwall rises relative to the hanging wall. Normal faults occur at divergent boundaries, such as ocean ridges. Normal faults can produce fault-block mountains.In a reverse fault, the plates are moving towards each other. This is due to compression. Here, the footwall falls relative to the hanging wall. A thrust fault is a special type of reverse fault, where the angle is shallow. Reverse faults occur at convergent boundaries, like subduction zones.A strike-slip fault is where the two plates move horizontally past each other. The force between them is called shearing. This type of fault is often called a transform fault, because they occur at transform boundaries.
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a normal fault
A normal fault occurs when rock is pulled apart, causing one block of rock to move downward relative to the other. This displacement is due to tensional forces acting on the earth's crust, causing the hanging wall to drop relative to the footwall along the fault plane.
This is described as a normal fault.
This is described as a normal fault.
A fracture in rock along which movement occurs is called a fault. faults are caused by stress in the Earth's crust, and can result in earthquakes when the stored energy is released through movement along the fault plane.
This is described as a normal fault.
This is described as a normal fault.
Along a fault, rock layers can become displaced, offset, or tilted. This is due to the movement of the Earth's crust along the fault line, resulting in different rock layers being shifted relative to each other.
This kind of fault is called a normal fault and is usually a sign of crustal extension.
This is described as a normal fault.
A reverse fault occurs when rock above the fault moves upward at the fault line. This type of fault is associated with compressional stress where the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. Reverse faults are common in regions undergoing compression, such as convergent plate boundaries.