Dr Corral suspects that extending cracking into the third dimension dissipates the energy faster and stops the fault spreading.
Although a traveling wave by a PTG or PTN fault spreads to both sides, it is mostly disturbed by branches connected to the faulted pole.
In the process, the faults developed progressively from the basement to the top cover, the faults spread upward in the profile at embryonic stage, and then converged toward the PDZ on the plane at R shears development stage.
Towards the south, the formation of these domal/folded features with thrust faults spread over a length of ~ 27 km along E W direction (Figs. 5, 7) indicates a zone of recent compressional uplift with probable linkage to the regional tectonics.
"At this point, BP is likely to take its chances and hope the allocation of fault is spread more equally among all the defendants".
The Midwest Detroit may be the epicenter of the American automobile industry, but its fault lines spread into Michigan and western Ohio, where many small businesses supply parts and services to Detroit's Big Three automakers.
Once the power grid is subjected to large disturbances, the fault can spread easily, which challenges the security and stability of the power grid [2].
If the interrupting capacity is insufficient to effectively clear faults, the impact of faults may spread to wider areas, jeopardizing the security of the whole power system.
At least nine more tremors measuring up to 6.3 on the Richter scale followed it on Tuesday along the same fault line, spreading further panic.
As cracks were appearing in Medscape's plan, so, too, were fault lines spreading through the plans of WebMD and Healtheon.
