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Fresh surface fractures (black arrows) along Brawley Fault Zone and across Ralph Road in response to the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake; view to the north. Information and translations of fault line in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on … { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, fault line synonyms, fault line pronunciation, fault line translation, English dictionary definition of fault line. The major seismic hazards in the region are from large earthquakes occurring along regional faults that are located miles away from the geothermal field, such as the San Andreas and Healdsburg-Rodgers Creek faults. Fault rupture movements can cause significant damage to structures built directly across a fault line. Red lines indicate active fault traces (after Imaizumi et al. 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The fault is the horizontal line through the center, with the blue arrows representing frictional forces that keep the sides of the fault locked. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971063', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, var mapping_houseslot_b = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([963, 0], []).addSize([0, 0], [300, 250]).build(); iasLog("criterion : cdo_tc = resp"); This dynamic earth: the story of plate tectonics; 1996; USGS Unnumbered Series; GIP; Kious, W. Jacquelyne; Tilling, Robert I. Quaternary fault map of the Basin and Range and Rio Grande Rift provinces, Western United States; 1982; OFR; 82-579; Nakata, John K.; Wentworth, C. M.; Machette, Michael N. 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