Explain to them that earth scientists distinguish between two types of strike-slip faults, based on the relative movement of one side of the fault with respect to the other. So long as they stand ...

This massive strike-slip fault system ... Over millions of years, tectonic forces caused horizontal movement along the fault, tearing the suture zone apart and scattering its fragments across ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude ... similar to those found at a strike-slip fault like Califonia's San Andreas Fault. Though the materials are ...

The movement of the tectonic plates builds ... Anatolian fault or the Dead Sea Transform fault. These are both “strike-slip faults”, which means they accommodate some motion of plates moving ...

This, combined with a sharp movement of the crust northwards ... the seabed in a zone some distance from Palu where the strike-slip fault splits into diverging tracks. Dramatic video shows ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be ... similar to those found at a strike-slip fault like Califonia's San Andreas Fault. Though the materials are different, the ...