This was the first time that the fault scarp of a trench-type earthquake ... the ridge across the fault precisely measuring the topography using acoustic transponder and pressure gauge.

Jeff Lonn, a geologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte ... he was seeing something that looked like a "fault scarp" in the Bitterroot. "It came as a real surprise to me ...

The taller the fault scarp from a single earthquake ... Below Video: Ashley Streig, a geology professor at Portland State University, explains how lakebed sediment was displaced in an earthquake ...

"We suspected this fault was present due to an offset land surface (scarp) that we were able to see in high-resolution topography data," Nicolas Harrichhausen, a geology researcher at the ...

A major fault located in Utah, USA, called the Wasatch Fault, is worrying scientists. It could cause larger earthquakes in ...

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an airborne laser-mapping tool that creates detailed maps of surface topography. A faint "moletrack" visible in the lidar turned out to be a fault scarp, where a fault moves the ground surface ...

These images are from a 2004 paper by Mosher et al. titled Near-surface geology and sediment-failure geohazards of the central Scotian Slope. The first image (below) is a map showing the study ...

The trail crosses the eastern-most end of Lute Ridge after 0.65 mile. Lute Ridge is a two-mile-long fault scarp composed of unconsolidated alluvial sand, gravel, and boulders that are being pushed ...

In it, the U.S. Geological Survey geologist is hoping to find evidence of a fault line ... All of that topography was made by the faults that lie underneath them,” Anderson says.