Sentences with phrase «built along the fault»
For decades, geologists have stated that there will be a very large earthquake in the state because there is a lot of stress building along the fault lines.
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On the other hand, if the two plates were stuck together by friction, strain would build up in the rocks and the upper plate would bend down along the outer edge and thicken inland, humping upward until the rocks along the fault failed.
Friction along the fault locks the plates together until enough strain builds up to cause the plates to slip, unleashing an earthquake.
They then put the two pieces together under pressure, simulating the static friction that builds up along a fault line.
Most typical earthquakes happen along faults that have built - in brakes: motion stops once the stress is relieved between the two chunks of earth that are trying to move past each other.
As new technology allows, or as poverty demands, rich and poor alike have pushed into soggy floodplains or drought - ridden deserts, built on impossibly steep slopes, and created vast, fragile cities along fault lines that tremble with alarming frequency.
Nobody ever built anything worthwhile without failing somewhere along the way, and constant autopsies over what went wrong and whose fault it was will simply demoralise everyone.