The central Longmen Shan thrust belts are composed of not only the three main faults but also some blind
thrust faults in the Sichuan basin as shown in Figure 1.
"Strike-slip faults are much less efficient at making tsunamis than
thrust faults," says Ward.
Thrust faults are often associated with convergent (compressional) boundaries.
Those are basins caused by
thrust faults. Along the edge of those valleys, you get faulting that traps petroleum.
A fault zone developed by
thrust fault will induce the failure of the lining, especially for tunnels located inside the shear zone.
8): (1) Bitlis-Zagros Suture Zone; (2) Northern Bitlis
thrust fault zone (Dhont and Chorowicz, 2006); (3) Kavakbaci Fault zone; (4) Malazgirt fault zone; (5) Ahlat and surrounding fault zone; (6) Suphan Fault zone ; and (7) Southern Van faults (Ercek fault, Kalecik fault, Edremit fault and Southern Boundary fault (Utkucu, 2006).
At its northern end, the EHSZ represents a poorly understood, deeply rooted,
thrust fault, but its character and even its position in the southern highlands are uncertain (e.g., Horne 1995).
There are also some other geologists who think Zagros (its sedimentary part in particular) spreads from its Main
Thrust Fault towards the west based on the surface studies without considering geodynamic processes.
Carito is situated in northern Peru within the Antamina - Magistral
thrust fault belt, Ancash Department.
The aircore drilling program has discovered a second
thrust fault to the east of Treasure Island, suggesting the Boulder-Lefroy fault system could have split in two through this area with one part of the fault system running immediately east of Treasure Island and the other part of the fault system running approximately 3km to the east on the lake (Figure 1).
India's quake was the result of the strain in a
thrust fault, in which one section of Earth's crust is pushed up over another.