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Hollister is one of the most seismically active cities in the United States, and in fact the Calaveras Fault runs straight through Downtown. Several homes and streets in this area have been quite visibly distorted by fault creep, forcing periodic restoration. The curb here for example was originally straight.
Downtown, Hollister, California
Ross Avenue pot hole. Deep enough to show exposed steel.
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Dallas, Texas 2/2012
ecluse du canal Rideau a OItawa, Canada
lock of the Rideau Canal at Ottawa in Canada
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Stored Bone 58042 at the allotments behind Eastleigh Depot.
This loco was a survivor for many years, even if its actual working life was very short.
58042 was built at BREL Doncaster and delivered to BR on 31 May 1986.
Transferring to EWS under privatisation, its working life in the UK was very short.
EWS were not fans of the Class 58s and withdrew them rapidly after the 250 Class 66s had arrived.
58042 was stored WNXX at Toton on 12 April 2000, but then got a reprieve due to a shortage of locos.
It was moved from Toton to Leicester and then worked on in the shed there from 31 August to 4 October 2000.
It then moved 2 days later to Toton for final repairs and re-instated to traffic on 3 November 2000 in the WFAH pool.
It then worked another year until being stopped with engine faults at Eastleigh in mid October 2001.
It was decided to repair it at a very surprising place, namely the former Bury electric shed workshops on the East Lancashire Railway.
Transferred on 30 November 2001 and was released back into traffic to Toton on 23 December.
By April 2002, the fleet of 50 Bones was down to only 14.
On 12 April, 58042 became the next green bottle to fall, being stored WNXX again at Eastleigh with 9,524 hours on the overhaul clock.
On 4 September 2002, the last Bones were stored.
Built from 1983, the longest any of them worked in the UK was 19 years !!
That may have been the end of the class, except EWS had ongoing contracts to supply diesel locos for TGV lines being built in France & work in Spain.
Initially using Class 37s in both countries and then Class 56s in France replacing the Class 37s, the need for more locos now included Class 58s from 2004.
58042 was not included in the initial 2004/2005 TGV Est contract with to Fertis and TSO/ Seco.
All up 34 Class 56 & 15 58 locos were used on the France contract and 7 Class 58s in Spain.
In 2008, 4 more Bones were allocated to the ongoing contract in Spain PLUS another France TGV contract was signed.
Demand for replacement locos was increasing,
So after over 6 years of storage, 58042 finally got the call to be re-activated.
It joined the WZFF pool on 21 November 2008. The overhaul work was to be done at Eastleigh, so it was already on site which probably helped.
One of the last of the program to be overhauled, it finally left Eastleigh on 19 August 2009 and went through the Tunnel the next day.
In total almost half the fleet (24) worked on this contract from April 2009 to approximately November 2010.
In March 2011, 58042 was in a batch of 5 Bones sent to Alizay, near Rouen for long term storage.
All the French based Bones ended up here where I sighted them in 2011 & 2014.
By my 2014 visit, the copper thieves had just crossed the mainline next door and hacked into the copper in the engine rooms.
This totally destroyed any value left in the locos.
A decade later in June and July 2024, all 14 demic Bones (including 58042), were put out of their misery and scrapped onsite.
58042: Demolished after 38 years.
Total working life of less than 16.5 years ☹:
31/05/1986 to 12/04/2000;
03/11/2000 to 14/10/2001;
23/12/2001 to 12/04/2002;
and
20/08/2009 to November 2010.
Well, this is what happens when an other wise gorgeous agate has the unfortunate luck of being directly in the path of a fault. This guy is showing about .5" of offset in the banding, and you can tell event that caused the fault was probably catastrophic due to the little agate fragments suspended in center of the agate (my favorite feature). I know this isn't the most ideal collection piece, but the geologist in me thinks this is too cool. Agate measures about 3"x2"
This sign appeared after the first BNSF derailment which took out the diamond (replaced by the two switches). Can't fault the track on the IAIS within these limits... Colona, IL.
January 1, 2008.
Slickensides are structures found only at fault planes. What we call a slickenside is a smooth, polished surface that formed by friction between two sides of a fault. This makes them look more like a human-made surfaces, yet, these are absolutely natural.
Slickensides are often coated by a mineral (typically calcite) fibres - these may grow during the fault movement and help us identify the direction of movement. These fiber-like structures we call slickenfibres.
Moreover, sometimes slickenfibres have stepped appearance (like in the photo). These steps are very helpful, since we can identify not just the direction of movement (e.g. horizontal/vertical), but also the relative sense of movement of the two sides in fault (normal fault / reverse fault).
The picture above shows a slickenside with stepped slickenfibres, which could be helpful to identify the relative movement in faults.
Brno, Žabovřesky
This seismogram is from the Santo Domingo seismic station in Venezuela. The noise is from a magnitude 6.7 offshore earthquake that hit the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 1:35 PM, local time, on 22 March 2022. The quake was produced by right-lateral slip along a close to east-west striking transform fault.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a classic example of a mid-ocean ridge, where two tectonic plates diverge (separate) and new oceanic crust forms - this is called "seafloor spreading". In this case, the South American Plate and the African Plate are moving away from each other. The quake occurred along the Vema Transform Fault (frequently mis-referred to as the "Vema Fracture Zone"), which is between South America and Africa. Mid-ocean ridges are offset by numerous short to long transform faults - this results in a zig-zag pattern in map view.
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Info. at:
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000h6ne/exec...
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vema_Fracture_Zone
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge
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An earthquake is a natural shaking or vibrating of the Earth caused by sudden fault movement and a rapid release of energy. Earthquake activity is called "seismicity". The study of earthquakes is called "seismology". The actual underground location of an earthquake is the hypocenter, or focus. The site at the Earth's surface, directly above the hypocenter, is the epicenter. Minor earthquakes may occur before a major event - such small quakes are called foreshocks. Minor to major quakes after a major event are aftershocks.
Most earthquakes occur at or near tectonic plate boundaries, such as subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, collision zones, and transform plate boundaries. They also occur at hotspots - large subsurface mantle plumes (Examples: Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, Afar).
Earthquakes generate four types of shock waves: P-waves, S-waves, Love waves, and Rayleigh waves. P-waves and S-waves are body waves - they travel through solid rocks. Love waves and Rayleigh waves travel only at the surface - they are surface waves. P-waves are push-pull waves that travel quickly and cause little damage. S-waves are up-and-down waves (like flicking a rope) that travel slowly and cause significant damage. Love waves are side-to-side surface waves, like a slithering snake. Rayleigh waves are rotational surface waves, somewhat like ripples from tossing a pebble into a pond.
Earthquakes are associated with many specific hazards, such as ground shaking, ground rupturing, subsidence (sinking), uplift (rising), tsunamis, landslides, fires, and liquefaction.
Some famous major earthquakes in history include: Shensi, China in 1556; Lisbon, Portugal in 1755; New Madrid, Missouri in 1811-1812; San Francisco, California in 1906; Anchorage, Alaska in 1964; and Loma Prieta, California in 1989.
A trip down to Derby to see this working turned into quite a long drag.
The working was a VSTP UTU that was supposed to run on Monday and Tuesday but both runs were cancelled due to a fault with the train (or at least mondays).
Eventually the train turned up on the close RTC Siding 45 late so we rushed to grab a spot on the platform, having been watching over 60096 on the JNAs.
Finally, the train got the path into the station, Jonty Jarvis grumbles a bit whilst trying to release the brakes and gets moving slowly towards the station. The train grinds to a halt on approach to the station, blocking some lines as it crosses the mainline, not brilliant. The driver tries to move but the train will not budge, so they make a trip to the back of the train / coach and seem to resolve the issue there. With a few grunts, 219 finally leads the train in, being stuck on Derby junction for 10 or so mins.
The driver decides to pull all the way towards Chaddersden, which is what some drivers do just in case they get topped, but as the train is pulling in, the signal flicks to green for it to head out towards Spondon, meaning the run down to the other end of the platform wasn't really worth it.
The lady driver walks back up to 405 and quickly gets going, idling down the platform for a while then blasting out, 219 idling on the rear. The train didn't get far before 405 was declared a failure, blocking the mainline. However, the fault was rectified and the train continued 3 hours late.
This picture shows where it blocked the mainline - this is where it came to a stand.
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Red Rock Canyon Natural Conservation Area (BLM) - Keystone Thrust Trail - The Keystone thrust near Las Vegas, Nevada, is a spectacular example of a thrust fault, a reverse fault with shallow dip. The dark-gray Cambrian limestone of the Bonanza King Formation is moved sideways and above the pink Aztec Sandstone, of Jurassic age. The thrust fault was most active about 70 million years ago, during the long Sevier orogeny (mountain-building episode). Compressive forces caused by tectonic plate interactions to the west pushed the upper crust eastward. Movement on this thrust fault, which is part of the extensive Sevier fold-thrust belt, appears to have been nearly 100 kilometers.
A recent fault scarp along the Teton Fault offsets talus and alluvium at the base of Rockchuck Peak. This photo was taken from the Catherdral Group Turnout near Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park , Wyoming
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Isle of Lewis Returns to the Mersey after a fault with her port rudder meant it being removed whilst alongside at ullapool. Tug Smit Barbados escorted her from the bar and arrived outside of Lairds at 08:50, entering No 4 dry dock at 10:20.
Tugs Svitzer Maltbay & Smit Barbados nudging her on the Stbd side as she enters the dock ready for draining down.
Name:Isle Of Lewis
IMO:9085974
Flag:U.K.
MMSI:232002521
Callsign:MVNP4
Vessel type:Ro-ro/passenger Ship
Gross tonnage:6,753 tons
Summer DWT:867 tons
Length:101 m
Beam:18 m
Draught:4.2 m
Home port:Glasgow
Class society:Lloyd´s Shipping Register
Build year:1995
Builder:Ferguson Marine
Port Glasgow, U.K.
On the east side of FR540, this fault cuts the carbonates. In the fault zone, the rocks have been sheared and crushed.
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I was looking at the closed LNER rail line at Nab Lane, Howden Clough, West Yorks, I discovered an image problem near the household waste/recycling site. There's a black square which looks like a hole, I checked it on Multimap, where everything was found to be in perfect order.
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