Science news articles about 'strike slip faults'

... they obliquely meet the Hosgri Fault. Focal mechanisms indicate that this feature is a vertical strike-slip fault. Geophysical characterization of the Hosgri Fault zone: High-resolution marine ...

... sites, however, the Parkfield area is a strike/slip fault, where the Pacific plate is moving ... tremors "are not relieving a lot of stress or making the fault less hazardous, they just indicate a changes ...

... how young basins along strike-slip faults, such as the Salton Sea, evolve through time." ... Baskin, from the USGS, used geophysical methods to image the faults beneath the Salton Sea. This study offers ...

... that the brittle layer of the Earth's crust subsides when the African and the Arabian plate pass each other along a strike-slip fault. Due to the lateral displacement, the Earth's crust ...

... fault zones. Nemser and Cowan report new field evidence of downdip segmentation within ... behave aseisimically. Downdip segmentation of strike-slip faults may be common at a variety of scales; this result ...

... three subparallel left-lateral strike-slip faults (with horizontal motion) in Guatemala and forms ... mica clocks in jadeitite found on the northern side of the fault to 70 million years. Finally, plate ...

... New Zealand – motion that created the strike-slip faults on the South Island. "These fluids certainly ... water makes quakes possible on such steep faults. "The fluid pressure is rising through the upper ...