Pattern of the Mesoscopic Thrust Faults in the Eastern Part of the...

Geolines;  January 1, 2006 ;     644 words ...Polish Western Outer Carpathians are a stack of nappes...research. In the Polish Outer Carpathians the folding and thrusting...next event, the previous thrust faults and related folds were...strikes of the regional thrust faults are directed WNW-ESE and...The studied ...

Cutting mountains down to size. (geological analysis of Himalaya...

The Economist (US);  September 3, 1988 ;     595 words ......of roughly parallel fractures called thrust faults have divided it into a series of wedges...which seem to spoil that story. Unlike thrust faults, which move the lower parts of the...younger, higher material downwards. Thrust faults are found where the crust is shortening...

Study Examines Calif. Faults

AP Online;  February 28, 2001 ;     590 words ......assumed Southern California's blind thrust faults weren't capable of producing earthquakes...earthquake detection threshold is for blind thrust faults,'' said William Lettis, an earthquake...important lesson.'' By definition, blind thrust faults remain buried and do not break the...

Hidden earthquake faults identified

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 2, 2000 ;     545 words ......and 1971 Sylmar quakes. Called blind thrust faults, they are not clearly visible on the...concrete evidence that we have large thrust faults in the offshore region here," said...slides horizontally past the other. Thrust faults, where one side moves over the other...

Seismology: Ominous Forecasts for Los Angeles

The Washington Post;  January 31, 1994 ;     259 words ......that point. In the resulting inclined "thrust" faults, the top layer of crust is poised to...lower wedge-shaped formation. Such thrust faults have caused numerous memorable quakes...was an anomalous lull"; or that the thrust faults "might sometimes break all at once...

Seismological Society of America Scientists Find Northridge Lessons Not...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  April 15, 2004 ;     571 words ......Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thrust faults remain a threat to southern California...implemented or applied to other known thrust faults. This was one of the major take-home...near-fault ground motions associated with thrust faults, including strong, long-period rupture...

Science: Update

The Independent - London;  July 24, 1998 ;     445 words ......under Los Angeles. Previous studies have suggested that "thrust faults" in Southern California pose the greatest seismic hazard...team at San Diego State University suggests that the main thrust faults account for less than half of the observed contraction. Significant...

2 new fault lines found off California coast

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 1, 2000 ;     383 words ......and 1971 Sylmar quakes. Called blind thrust faults, they are not clearly visible on the...concrete evidence that we have large thrust faults in the offshore region here," said...slides horizontally past the other. Thrust faults, where one side moves over the other...

Mongolian quake lessons for Los Angeles. (earthquakes on two separate but...

Science News;  August 10, 1996 ;     331 words ......side. Each region also has so-called thrust faults on the southern edge of its mountain...fault. At the same time, a string of thrust faults, measuring 50 km long, sprang into...Mongolian earthquake as an indication that thrust faults along the San Gabriel Mountains could...

Major fault identified under L.A. Scientists say potentially devastating...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 5, 1999 ;     310 words ......east of downtown. Asked how many blind thrust faults might lie beneath Los Angeles, experts...deep. It is "the poster child of blind thrust faults underneath Los Angeles," he said. The...today's issue of the journal Science. Thrust faults exist elsewhere and have long been...

Ground Cracks Worry Quake Probers

The Washington Post;  December 5, 1989 ;     513 words ......one or more of the southwest-dipping thrust faults," which are difficult to study because...report by the U.S. Geological Survey. Thrust faults have drawn much attention since one...Angeles and two previously undetected thrust faults were discovered under that city. The...

Dozens of Uncharted Faults Could Cause Similar Havoc

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 18, 1994 ;     408 words ......possible the danger posed by a complex web of deeply buried thrust faults underlying the Los Angeles basin. Dozens of such faults underlie...side, several seismologists said. Any of the other short thrust faults hidden under the basin could produce the same kind of strong...

Preliminary Results of Analogue Modelling of the Palaeogene and Neogene...

Geolines;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......evolution of the Western Outer Carpathians. The arcuate Outer...The Polish Western Outer Carpathians, which compose the northernmost part of the Outer Carpathians, is a north-verging...Neogene, when the Outer Carpathians was an accretionary...the Polish Western ...

MASSIVE HIDDEN FAULT THREATENS DOWNTOWN.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  March 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ......region.'' Stress is mounting Blind thrust faults are the result of the motion of the...clearly visible from ground level, blind thrust faults rarely extend to the surface. Rather...slipping along horizontal planes, blind thrust faults suddenly rise, creating a destructive...

Tides may trigger earthquakes in coastal areas, study finds.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 22, 2004 ;     628 words ......Japan focused on a specific type of fault. The team looked at thrust faults, where the earth on one side of the fault is pushed over...side of the fault slides past the other side, rather than thrust faults. But Vidale believes tides could just as easily affect strike-sl...