downthrow

Both of these faults and others in the area downthrow to the east.

Examples in the Yorkshire Dales lie on the downthrow side (north) of the Mid Craven Fault.

One of the world's deepest graben with over 1000 metres of downthrow is the Mount Unzen volcanic complex in southern Japan.

They terminate against a short ENE-WSW aligned fault with a northerly downthrow at the northern end of the parish.

The Great Standish or St Catherine's Fault has a downthrow to the east and passes under St. Catherine's Church at Ince.

The Great Pemberton Fault is a downthrow and passes Pemberton, Orrell and to the west of Shevington.

Most significantly, the structure of many rifts examined by seismic methods has been shown to be asymmetric with most of the downthrow occurring along a major boundary listric fault on one side of the rift.

It was reactivated as a normal fault in the Carboniferous with a downthrow to the northwest and again reactivated as a reverse fault during Late Carboniferous inversion associated with the Variscan Orogeny.

Ground rupture was observed in the form of a series of small vertical faults, with downthrow to the west, offsetting part of National Highway 22 between Sumdo and Kaurik, with displacements up to 50 cm.