Sentences with phrase «happen along faults»
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.
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Large earthquakes happen mostly along faults where tectonic plates meet as they move over the planet's surface.
Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, studied 1126 quakes that happened along the Sumatran fault, where the Eurasian plate slides below the Indo - Australian plate, between 1976 and 2008.
Accident reconstruction professionals heavily rely on eyewitness testimonies along with police and medical reports to piece together what happened, why and who was at fault.