Sentence examples for fault slide from inspiring English sources

Also, the so-called intraplate quake is the largest ever measured for a fault zone for which the two sides of the fault slide horizontally past each other, a la the San Andreas fault, rather than having one side of the fault shoved beneath its neighbor.

The fault slides and catches, builds up pressure and then releases that pressure along smaller adjacent faults.

Figure 6 shows temperature anomalies of 3 Myr after shearing and fault sliding were initiated.

These events have involved shallow, low rupture velocity fault sliding that radiates relatively low short-period seismic wave energy.

The most important factors affecting FPIRB are the static stress in the pillar and the dynamic stress induced by fault slides.

The gray broken line represents the BDT depth Fig. 6 Temperature anomaly produced by shear and frictional heating versus depth and distance from the fault for models a W1E, b D1E and c W30E after 3 Myr of fault sliding.

To understand the effects of far-field loading and material properties on the deformation of the lower crust on a geological time scale, we assume steady fault sliding on the fault in the upper crust and ductile flow for the lower crust.

Equation 2 represents a rate- and state-dependent friction, where V *, τ * s, and Δτ s are an arbitrary reference slip velocity on the frictional surface, the strength of a fault sliding with a velocity of V *, and the differential fault strength measured from τ * s, respectively.

State lawmakers banned the construction of buildings astride faults after the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, when homes on top of the San Fernando fault were split in half when one side of the fault slid past the other.

They reasoned that such clay-rich faults slide aseismically, whereas the faults with lower clay contents produce microseismic events.

They are both normal faults, sliding one block of the Earth's crust away from another block during an earthquake.