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fault plane

[′fȯlt ‚plān]

(geology)

A planar fault surface.

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class="MsoNormalAn earth tremor is an involuntary quivering movement that occurs after the main shock of an earthquakevibrations caused by rocks breaking under stress against an underground surface refers to as a fault plane.

Explainer: Earth tremors and earthquakes

In the main brecciated zone, calcite crystals up to tens of centimeters in width fill up the macroporosity in the vicinity of the fault plane (Figures 2(f) and 2(g)).

Understanding Fluid Flow during Tectonic Reactivation: An Example from the Flamborough Head Chalk Outcrop (UK)

At the fault plane, there are 6 asperities, which indicates that the earthquake is composed of at least 6 subevents.

Estimation of the Wenchuan Earthquake Rupture Sequence Utilizing Teleseismic Records and Coseismic Displacements

According to Benard (2002) [7], synsedimentary faults are characterized by filled fault planes (fault traces filled with correlative deposits) and do not cut all the formations of a stratigraphic succession, whereas postsedimentary faults display opposite characteristics to the former.

Genesis of Clastic Dykes and Soft-Sediment Deformation Structures in the Mamfe Basin, South-West Region, Cameroon: Field Geology Approach

It is dependent on an elastic parameter of the medium and the slip-weakening rate W only, and it is not affected by the strength of the fault plane, rate of increase of loading stress, or by the exact shape of the loading stress distribution along the fault.

Rupture, waves and earthquakes

Such an external process has obscured any signal of the fault plane which should be located in depth at the central part of the studied trench.

Paleoseismological evidence of Holocene activity of the Los Tollos Fault (Murcia, SE Spain): a lately formed Quaternary tectonic feature of the Eastern Betic Shear Zone

The center point of the pipeline (it in the fault plane) is not changed along with the diameter-thick ratio.

Finite element analysis of wrinkling of buried pressure pipeline under strike-slip fault

Limited evidence exists for kinematic analysis of the movement on the thrust fault plane: north-south oriented chatter marks in the New Glen Brook area and slickenlines and crystal fibre lineations oriented 090-100[degrees] in the Goose Cove Brook area (Fig.

Basement-cover relations in the southeastern Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia, Canada

Fault plane solution of the 1914 earthquake indicates normal faulting with a dip of 35[degrees] and a mean displacement of 1.6 m.

A new empirical relation between surface wave magnitude and rupture length for Turkey earthquakes

Because all of the stopes along the 900 orebody cross fault were mined out between 3500 and 3050 level, the natural confinement that the orebody provided to the fault plane was removed.

Performance of dynamic support system in highly burst-prone ground conditions at vale's copper cliff mine: a case study: an example of how a well-designed ground support system can withstand repetitive seismic events while allowing mining to proceed safely in troublesome areas

Fault plane solutions were determined from the waveforms recorded with broad-band seismographs and accelerographs in Slovenia, NE Italy, and Austria using the polarities and amplitudes of the first arrival of longitudinal and transversal waves (Table 1).

Analysis of the impact of fault mechanism radiation patterns on macroseismic fields in the epicentral area of 1998 and 2004 Krn mountains earthquakes (NW Slovenia)

Aftershocks are formed as the crust around the displaced fault plane adjusts to the effects of the main shock." Sa ato pa, surambao kining maong termino.