when did this particular fualt last move
Move away from a fault line.
It's a earthquake where two plates move sideways from eachother for example the San Andreas Fault is a strike-slip 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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Normal faults
A normal fault moves because it is under tension. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall due to the pulling apart of the Earth's crust, creating space and tension that cause the fault to move.
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Normal faults move because of tension, which causes the hanging wall to move downward relative to the footwall. This type of faulting occurs in areas where the Earth's crust is being pulled apart, and can create features such as rift valleys and horst-and-graben structures.
normal faults move from tension while the hanging wall goes up
A reverse fault moves because it is under compression. In a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall due to compressional forces in the Earth's crust. This type of fault is associated with convergent plate boundaries where tectonic plates collide.
Tension, friction and heat increase.
Tensional boundary is the meeting zone of two tectonic plates at a normal fault; the plates move apart
Where two plates move away from each other tension forces create many normal faults.
Tension creates normal faults, where the hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall. This type of fault is common in divergent boundary settings when tectonic plates move away from each other, causing extension and the rocks to be pulled apart.
In a reverse fault, compression (plates crashing together) causes the hanging wall to move up. In a normal fault, tension ( plates pulling apart) causes the footwall to push up.
the answer is an earthquake because the plates move so suddenly it makes the earth shake so therefore it would be called an earthquake!