Strike-slip faults involve horizontal movement, with little to no vertical displacement. In these faults, the blocks of rock slide past each other laterally due to shearing forces.

About 14% of magnitude 6.7 or greater strike-slip earthquakes since 2000 have been supershear. That's 50% more than previously thought. Supershear earthquakes occur when a fault ruptures faster ...

A relatively large dip-slip displacement was discovered at the site. The Futagawa strike-slip fault is a vertical break in the ground tracing a line southwest originating from Mount Aso.

To researchers at Kyoto University, the clip wasn’t just a jaw-dropping scene—it was an opportunity to study a strike-slip fault using visual data. Geologists analyzed the brief video frame-by ...

Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-Slip Fault Systems Alison B. Till, Sarah M. Roeske, James C. Sample, and David A. Foster (editors) Geological Society of America Special Paper 434 ...

Major strike-slip faults (about 1,000 kilometers in length) are notorious generators of large magnitude earthquakes, especially when the focal depth is shallow. When they traverse on land, they ...

"Originating along the Sagaing Fault, a 1,400-km-long [870-mile] dextral strike-slip boundary separating the Burma Microplate and Sunda Plate, the earthquake propagated a supershear rupture over ...

A study suggests that earthquakes on strike-slip faults can cause tsunamis in shallow bays even without an undersea landslide. Large tsunamis are generally attributed to earthquakes on normal and ...

Can we compare the Myanmar fault with the American one? 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.