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The great San Francisco earthquake happened in 1906 and not in 1902. The type of stress was a strike-slip stress.
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What type of stress causes an earthquake?
shifting of the earth's crust causes earthquakes
What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
What stress causes rocks to pull apart?
The type of stress that causes rocks to pull apart is a tension stress. It is the major type of stress found in divergent plate boundaries.
What is the amount of ground displacement in an earthquake?
It depends on the intensity of the earthquake and the type of slippage that caused it.
What type of wave is not characteristic as an earthquake?
It is about 30
What type of stress on the plates caused the Japan's earthquake in sendai 2011?
It is called tectonic stress.
What type of stress causes an earthquake?
shifting of the earth's crust causes earthquakes
What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
What type of stress caused the earthquake in Chile on the 27th of February 2010?
Compressive stress at a convergent plate boundary. For more information, please see the related questions.
What type of earthquake was the japan earthquake of 2010?
It was a 9.0 level earthquake
Name and describe the type of tectonic stress that forms folded mountains?
The tectonic plates that collide vertical to one opposit end of the other so that the can crash making an earthquake this is done to global warming but really it is earthquake causing global warming
What type of earthquake was the 1556 shaanxi earthquake?
The type were the earth moves and shacks the ground.
What is the onset type of an earthquake?
rapid onset type
What type of stress is placed on fold?
Compressional Stress
What is an earthquake that occurs in the ocean?
A seaquake is a type of earthquake that occurs under the seafloor.
IS earthquake an rock move in soul silver?
no, earthquake is a ground type attack.
Which type of stress produces most crustal deformation?
tension is the type of stress that causes the crust to become thinner.
