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A fault in which blocks of rock slip sideways past each other; also known as tear faults, strike-slip faults, or, when especially large, transcurrent faults.
Industry:Natural environment
The time rate of change of velocity of a reference point during an earthquake. Commonly expressed in percentage of gravity.
Industry:Natural environment
The record from an accelerograph showing ground acceleration as a function of time.
Industry:Natural environment
A compact, rugged instrument that records the signal from an accelerometer.
Industry:Natural environment
An instrument used to measure acceleration. Used to measure the response of the ground or a structure to shaking in an earthquake.
Industry:Natural environment
The probability of social or economic consequences due to a hazard that is a realistic basis for determining design requirements or taking certain social or economic actions.
Industry:Natural environment
A fault along which displacement has occurred in recent geologic time or along which earthquake foci are located. Active faults are assumed to be capable of producing earthquakes.
Industry:Natural environment
Loosely compacted sand, gravel, and silt deposited by streams in relatively recent geologic time.
Industry:Natural environment
The increase in surface ground motion at certain frequencies in unconsolidated sediments relative to the motion in solid rock.
Industry:Natural environment
