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Active fault. An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the future. Geologists commonly consider faults to be active if there has been movement observed or evidence of seismic activity during the last 10,000 years. [1]
This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important [clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity. [clarification needed] It is not intended to list every notable fault, but only major fault zones.
Fault (geology) Satellite image of a fault in the Taklamakan Desert. The two colorful ridges (at bottom left and top right) used to form a single continuous line, but have been split apart by movement along the fault. In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant ...
Pages in category "Active faults". The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Active fault.
Northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras, at 03:54 CET (UTC+1) on 26 November 2019. [ 8 ][ 9 ] The earthquake lasted at least 50 seconds and was felt in Albania's capital Tirana, and in places as far away as Bari, Taranto and Belgrade, [ 10 ] 370 kilometres ...
Bik'at Hayarden A 2003 satellite image of the region showing the Jordan Rift Valley. The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley (Hebrew: בִּקְעָת הַיַרְדֵּן Bīqʿāt haYardēn, Arabic: الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr), [citation needed] also called the Syro-African Depression, [dubious – discuss] is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank.
Map of the Matano Fault, Sulawesi from Daryono et al. 2021. The Matano fault is a major active WNW-ESE trending left lateral strike-slip fault on the island of Sulawesi.It extends for about 190 km from near the southern end of the Palu-Koro Fault in the west, to Kolono Bay on the east coast of the island.
293. Casualties. 75,000–82,000 [3] A devastating earthquake occurred on 28 December 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The epicentre was in the Strait of Messina which separates Sicily from the Italian mainland.