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Illustrations
A 3D block diagram showing a cross-section of geologic layers being split by a fault. The block on the right side of the diagram is being pushed up along an incline over the block on the left.

Reverse fault
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Shallow-depth location and geometry of the Piedmont Reverse splay of the Hayward Fault, Oakland, California
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Earthquakes generated from bedding plane-parallel reverse faults above an active wedge thrust, Seattle fault zone
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Three diagrams showing types of faults. Strike-slip is shown with the blocks of crust moving parallel to each other. The normal fault is shown with a fault at an angle and the overhanging block sliding downward. The thrust fault is shown with the same angle of the fault but the overhanging block is sliding upwards.

Fault Types
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Thrust Fault
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Normal Fault
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gray relief map of western U.S. with red, yellow, and blue faults

Fault sections being used in the creation of the 2023 U.S. Seismic Hazard Maps
Presentations and Events

PubTalk 5/2019 - Rodgers Creek Fault
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Recent reverse faulting in the Transverse Ranges, California
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Chapter 6: Chronology of displacement on the San Andreas fault in central California: Evidence from reversed positions of exotic rock bodies near Parkfield, California
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Using a modified time-reverse imaging technique to locate low-frequency earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault near Cholame, California
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Triggered reverse fault and earthquake due to crustal unloading, northwest Transverse Ranges, California
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PubTalk 8/2006 — Hidden Faults Under Silicon Valley
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Field observations and logs from the Rose Hip trench exposure across a north-facing scarp within the Seattle Fault Zone, southern Bainbridge Island, Washington
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Paleoseismic study of the XEOLXELEK–Elk Lake fault: A newly identified Holocene fault in thenorthern Cascadia forearc near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Fault displacement hazard for strike-slip faults
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Fault activity in the San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, USA: Insights from landscape morphometrics, erosion rates, and fault-slip rates
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Chronology of displacement on the San Andreas fault in central California; evidence from reversed positions of exotic rock bodies near Parkfield, California
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The Evergreen basin and the role of the Silver Creek fault in the San Andreas fault system, San Francisco Bay region, California
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Late Quaternary slip rates on the Sierra Madre fault zone and paleoseismic evidence on the size and frequency of past ruptures
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Late Quaternary slip rate of the Central Sierra Madre fault, southern California: Implications for slip partitioning and earthquake hazard
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Quaternary reelfoot fault deformation in the Obion River Valley, Tennessee, USA
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Energy constraints on kinematic models of oblique faulting: Loma Prieta versus Parkfield-Coalinga
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Neogene contraction between the San Andreas fault and the Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay region, California
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The southern Whidbey Island fault: An active structure in the Puget Lowland, Washington
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Geodetic measurements of horizontal strain near the White Wolf fault, Kern County, California, 1926-1993
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Structural superposition in fault systems bounding Santa Clara Valley, California
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New evidence on the state of stress of the San Andreas fault system
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Large-scale splay faults on a strike-slip fault system: The Yakima Folds, Washington State
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Prehistoric ruptures of the Gurvan Bulag fault, Gobi Altay, Mongolia
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