Explore: Surface Fault Ruptures

Earth's surface, but did not cause surface rupture, because it was a blind thrust earthquake. Surface ruptures commonly occur on pre-existing faults. Only

associated with extensive surface fault ruptures that damaged numerous homes, commercial buildings, and other structures. Surface rupture is the most easily

to surface fault ruptures or fault creep. The act restricts construction of buildings designed for human occupancy across potentially active faults. Since

energy and release it in fault ruptures. Rocks hotter than about 300 °C (572 °F) flow in response to stress; they do not rupture in earthquakes. The maximum

earthquakes, surface breaks are common. Fault ruptures in large earthquakes can extend for more than 100 km (62 mi). When a fault ruptures unilaterally

earthquakes. Faults may also displace slowly, by aseismic creep. A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A fault trace or

new fault, or, most commonly of all, a slip on an existing fault. A tectonic earthquake begins by an initial rupture at a point on the fault surface, a

indicated normal faulting along a northeast–southwest striking fault. The extent of surface ruptures associated with the M7.8 and M7.7 earthquakes have been

not rupture along the East Anatolian Fault; it ruptured a perpendicular strike-slip fault. The 1971 Bingöl earthquake produced surface ruptures along

along surface ruptures. When the location of these offsets were plotted on a map, he noted that they made a near perfect line on top of the fault he previously