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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.
The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) through the U.S. state of California. [1] It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate .
Cameron's Line is an Ordovician suture fault in the northeast United States that formed as part of the continental collision known as the Taconic orogeny around 450 million years ago.
Seismic faults of Washington (state) (4 P) Pages in category "Seismic faults of the United States" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Fault lines are fractures between blocks of rock in the Earth’s crust, the layer closest to the surface. These lines allow tectonic plates to move and earthquakes occur when two plates slide ...
Suturing of one continental block onto another usually occurs because a subduction zone exists beneath one of the blocks. [4] The subduction zone consumes the oceanic crust connected to the other block. [4] After the oceanic crust is consumed, the two blocks meet and the subducting oceanic crust pulls the attached continental block under the ...
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.