Scientists performed experiments along California’s San Andreas Fault, an area famous for its earthquakes. Highly sensitive electrical devices are placed about one kilometer below ground in two di fferent places. The devices were able to measure even small changes in air pressure o n the Earth’...
The risks associated with green swans fall into two categories. The first is the physical risk, namely the natural disaster that does the damage. For example, the San Andreas fault, which could open up and cut California in half. Every type of business and millions of people would be affect...
The transform fault boundaries are when there is a fault along a plate boundary where the motion in existence is predominately horizontal. The transform fault is distinguished from the typical strike-slip faults; this occurs because the sense of movement is in the opposite direction; it is a sp...
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