A specific type of reverse fault, called a thrust fault, has a shallower angle and can push older rock layers above younger ones, creating significant geological formations. Strike-slip faults ...

There are three kinds of faults: strike-slip, normal and thrust (reverse) faults, said Nicholas van der Elst, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades ...

The team also found that a magnitude 6.5 quake could occur every 100 to 150 years. Thrust, or reverse, faults are features in the Earth’s crust that occur when a massive slab of rock moves up ...

Unlike the familiar quakes that strike sideways along the San Andreas fault, these shallow quakes all appear to have struck on what scientists call a reverse or thrust fault, where one block of ...

All three earthquakes have been thrust faults, otherwise known as reverse faults. Thrust faults form due to horizontal compressive stresses and so cause shortening of the crust. Here one block or ...

Preliminary data suggest Friday night’s 5.1 magnitude earthquake near La Habra occurred on the Puente Hills thrust fault, which stretches from the San Gabriel Valley to downtown Los Angeles and ...

In a report on the earthquake and its causes, the USGS said the rupture occurred on either a near-vertical reverse fault or a shallowly dipping thrust fault. At the latitude of the earthquake ...

Investigators are refining simulations of a Sudanese Boeing 707-330 freighter crash in order to determine whether a serious fault ... loss-of-thrust failure, or a rapid activation of reverse ...