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The initial analysis of the earthquake suggests the quake wasn't caused by one plate thrusting beneath another, but by so-called strike-slip faulting, a mechanism where fault systems slide side-to-side when two tectonic plates butt heads.
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The initial analysis of the earthquake suggests the quake wasn't caused by one plate thrusting beneath another, but by so-called strike-slip faulting, a mechanism where fault systems slide side-to-side when two tectonic plates butt heads.
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While strike-slip faults are relatively shallow, a subduction fault is deeper and can release a lot more energy.
Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011
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While strike-slip faults are relatively shallow, a subduction fault is deeper and can release a lot more energy.
Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011
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“And,” Reggie continued, “the seismic wave patterns suggest a strike-slip event.”
Rogue Wave Boyd Morrison 2010
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But, also, we cannot forget that Haiti is part of that Caribbean islands that are - can be subjected to just about any type of earthquakes - from the strike-slip, which was the earthquake that hit Haiti, from subduction earthquakes, which can actually produce larger magnitudes of earthquakes.
Students Test Housing Materials Against Simulated Earthquake 2010
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This area is characterized as a strike-slip fault where the Caribbean plate moves eastward with respect to the North America plate.
Maps of Earthquake and Aftershocks in Haiti | Universe Today 2010
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Geologically, what happened last week was well understood, a strike-slip movement along the North Anatolian Fault, which runs right through the densely populated industrial heart of northern Turkey.
The Big One 2008
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The final major type of fault is the strike-slip or transform fault.
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The kinds of stresses and strains that build up in faults like the lateral fault of the San Andreas — what are called strike-slip faults — are invisible.
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