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Yes, for instance the San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault and the famous San Fransisco earthquake happened on it. However in a pure transform fault movement, there is little or no vertical displacement and in some instances transform faults may move by a process of slow creep causing only minor earthquake swarms instead of big jolts.
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∙ 12y agoIt changes it because when the plates push together it might a sort of shaking and when the plates collide they either go up or down pushing on earths crust making a earthquake.
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∙ 9y agoNo. In a transform fault, the two fault blocks slide horizontally against one another. In a normal fault the two fault blocks pull apart and the top block (hanging wall) slides downward.
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How can scientists map hidden faults?
By studying how the earth's crust reacts to earthquakes, volcanoes, or underground explosions and the like.
What do scientists hope to learn by collecting information about friction along faults?
Predicting when earthquakes will happen and when volcanoes will erupt
Tectonic plates forming a transform boundary may move only a few centimeters each year can even this small movement affect people and communities living near a transform boundary?
When tectonic plates slide past each other, the movement may cause earthquakes, which might injure people or damage property in a community.
Tensional forces cause what kind of fault?
In the extreme tension forces can cause local vulcanism. At a local level it may create fault block mountains. Over larger landscapes, it creates Rift Valleys such as the giant one in East Africa today.
What happens when a fault moves suddenly?
Faults are breaks in the crust where the crust has moved. The types of dip-slip faults are normal and reverse faults. In both of these, the movement is along the slope of the fault. Sudden movements along these faults can produce fault scarps. Layers of rock being misaligned is evidence of fault movement. Fault creep is caused by slow movement along the fault.In a normal fault, the plates are moving away from each other. This is due to tension. When the fault moves, the footwall rises relative to the hanging wall. Normal faults occur at divergent boundaries, such as ocean ridges. Normal faults can produce fault-block mountains.In a reverse fault, the plates are moving towards each other. This is due to compression. Here, the footwall falls relative to the hanging wall. A thrust fault is a special type of reverse fault, where the angle is shallow. Reverse faults occur at convergent boundaries, like subduction zones.A strike-slip fault is where the two plates move horizontally past each other. The force between them is called shearing. This type of fault is often called a transform fault, because they occur at transform boundaries.
What type of fault causes earthquakes?
Subduction Zones and Transform faults can produce Earthquakes.
Which kind of boundary is seen in earthquakes that are normal faults?
Transform boundaries are seen in earthquakes that are caused by normal faults. Some types of faults are listric or ring faults.
What are the 3 different types of rock movement in earthquakes?
Normal faults, reverse faults, and last but not least transform faults.
What faults are found at transform fault boundaries?
Faults are found at transform boundaries like at the San andrais fault
What are the actions of the faults?
Faults can create cracks in the earth and cause earthquakes.
What did grove Gilbert discover about earthquakes?
He saw that faults were a major cause cause of earthquakes
All faults will cause earthquakes?
It all depends on how big the fault is, bigger ones will cause bigger earthquakes, while smaller, or small ones may cause no earthquake at all.
What force can cause strike-slip faults?
transform
What force can cause strike slip faults?
transform
What can transform boundary form?
i trying to figure that out
What do transform boundries cause?
Cause and make are the same thing and transform makes earthquakes and the eruption of a volcano.
Where do earthquakes occur mostly at?
yo momma hahahahahahah jk it's in faults and transform boundries.
