Some strike-slip faults are also found in the area.
Geologically speaking, the line serves as a huge dextral strike-slip fault.
The 1980 earthquake was the result of movement along the northwest to southeast trending strike-slip fault.
Much of the eastern movement is due to major strike-slip faults.
Movement on a strike-slip fault is horizontal to the surface of the ground.
The 1692 event is thought to have occurred on one of these strike-slip faults.
In a strike-slip fault, the blocks of rock move in opposite horizontal directions.
Many of the lakes are bounded by normal or strike-slip faults.
'From what we've seen they're all strike-slip faults,' she replied quietly.
Transform faults are the only type of strike-slip fault that can be classified as a plate boundary.