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Subduction zone (continental collision) Active: 1505 Lo Mustang ... California, United States: Normal fault: Active: 1872 Lone Pine (M7.4–8.3) Skyros-Edremit Fault zone
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
Globally most fault zones are located on divergent plate boundaries on oceanic crust. This means that they are located around mid-ocean ridges and trend perpendicular to them. The term fracture zone is used almost exclusively for features on oceanic crust; similar structures on continental crust are instead termed transform or strike slip faults.
The Balcones Fault Zone [8] is a demarcation line for certain ecological systems and for species distributions, e.g., the California fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) is the only species of palm tree native to the continental United States west of the Balcones Fault. [9]
What are the fault lines under New York and New Jersey? ... and eastern U.S. is considered a stable continental region that is far away from the plate boundaries where tectonic plates move ...
The prediction is based on research done by dozens of scientists and engineers using seismic studies, historical geological data and new information to identify nearly 500 additional fault lines ...
Map depicting the extent of the Ramapo Fault System in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. [1]
A full fault rupture, estimated to be around a 7.5 magnitude, could kill between 3,000 and 18,000 people, according to US Geological Survey and Southern California Earthquake Center.