These faults help accommodate the motion and geometry of Earth’s tectonic plates, cracking at the edges as the different pieces of rocky crust slip past each other.

What is more, this blind fracture turned out to be a "strike-slip" fault, in which the blocks of crust move sideways relative to one another. "This is - as far as I know - the first well-documented ...

Mar. 18, 2021 — Glaciers in Southeast Alaska have been melting since the end of the Little Ice Age, many of which are in close proximity to strike-slip faults. When these glaciers melt, the land ...

The Denali Fault is also known as a "strike slip" fault: ... This can either cause a downward compression, known as a negative flower structure, ...

Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake on the fault, yet geoscientists ...

Yes, it's the same type of strike-slip fault. You could also compare the Sagaing fault to the Turkish fault involved in the 2023 earthquake. They are all moving at a rate of more than one ...