Questions concerning earthquakes and faults.?
for tomorrows quiz on this section, which i kinda dont get. but my teacher gave us a sheet as to what to sorta expect and what we should know, and !@#$% me, i took home the wrong textbook and my teacher never gave us the code for it online.
if you can help, id be grateful since its the first quiz of the quarter.
1. What force causes rocks to move above a normal fault surface and what directions do the rocks move?
2. How do compression forces make rocks move along a reverse fault?
3. Why is it easier to predict where an earthquake will occur it is to predict when it will occur?
It is easier to predict where an earthquake will occur than when it will occur because earthquakes are almost always on plate boundaries, but they occur fairly randomly. In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves down, and in a reverse fault, the hanging wall moves up. I would think of a normal fault as being pulled apart, and a reverse fault as being pushed together.
Your questions are slightly oddly worded, so I hope that helped a bit.
Super Mario 64 video quiz – Level 5, task 9