In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

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A large scale landform found along a conservative plate boundary is a fault line. One of the most active fault lines in the world is the San Andreas fault line in California, USA.