fault-scarp

This is about seventy miles long and only eight or ten miles wide, with mountains rising abruptly on each side two or three thousand feet, evidently a fault-scarp.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

When the throw is considerable -- and in one place it reaches from 18 to 20 feet -- the fault-scarp forms a terrace, which from a distance has the appearance of a railway embankment (Fig. 47).

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

The Japanese earthquake is distinguished from others by its extraordinary fault-scarp and the very numerous shocks that followed it.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

In the fault-scarp formed in 1894 in Eastern Greece, a similar shift took place, though to what extent is unknown.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

Not far from the axes of the outer groups of curves there are probably transverse faults, approximately parallel to the great fault-scarp and the main branch of the meizoseismal band, and distant from them about

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

The Japanese earthquake of 1891, however, placed the reality of such movements beyond doubt, and revealed the existence of a fault-scarp, with a height in one place of 18 or 20 feet, and a length of at least 40, if not of 70, miles.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

It was at first supposed that this earthquake occurred without preparation of any kind; but a closer analysis of the records shows that during the previous two years there was a very decided increase in the seismic activity of the district, and also that the distribution of the epicentres marked out the future fault-scarp, and at the same time exhibited a tendency to comparative uniformity over the whole fault-region.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

The whole region, indeed, was evidently subjected to intense stresses, and the depression on the north-east side of the fault-scarp can hardly fail to have been accompanied by other movements, especially along a fault running near the western margin of the main branch of the meizoseismal area.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

This constant diminution in the depth of the foci shows that the great slip was followed by a sudden increase of stress upwards as well as laterally, and explains why that slip did not leave any perceptible trace, either as fault-scarp or fissure, at the surface.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

It will be seen that they follow roughly the course of the meizoseismal area southwards to the Sea of Isé, and that to the south-east they continue for several miles the short branch of the meizoseismal area which surrounds the southern end of the fault-scarp.

A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899