Each type of fault line represents a different kind of stress—tension, compression, or shear—acting on the Earth’s crust.

California is home to hundreds of faults. This partly explains why the state sees so many earthquakes. They can range wildly in size and shape. A fault is a fracture zone between two large blocks ...

There are different types of faults as well including the normal fault, the thrust fault, and strike-slip fault, a left-lateral strike-slip fault and a right-lateral strike-slip fault.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – How do earthquakes happen? WATE 6 Storm Team’s Matt Hinkin breaks it down. Most earthquakes are caused built up stress along faults, fractures in the earth’s crust.

Faults and Failures. Faults can damage equipment and facilities, drive up costs due to lost production time, and lead to employee injuries, and even fatalities. The four types of faults include: ...

The Cascadia and Mount Angel Faults are two different types of faults. Crustal faults quakes are caused by moving rocks in the shallow part of the earth's crust.

There's a few different types of faults in there that have earthquakes. They all seem sort of capable of this magnitude high 3s. Maybe into the 4s and 5s; ...