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6 days on from the initial fault, it seems the crack is getting larger, and the hole near the London bound track also larger. But I could be mistaken.
We went for a walk at high tide today, just gone 2 to see for ourselves the damage, and how bad it might be,
High tide today was at the height of the most recent named storm "Frank".
The orange army are in place, but I am sure with the weather wild today, work would only continue when it was safe.
Along the mid-Atlantic ridge many fault lines have opened in the surface of the rock, this one has filled with water to create a deep, crystal clear lake.
Faults cutting Pennsylvanian sedimentary rocks in Utah, USA.
Faults are fractures or fracture systems in rocks along which there has been differential displacement. Faults are produced by either extensional stress, compressional stress, or shear stress. Movement along faults is usually in the form of sudden jolts, which produces earthquakes.
Just south of the southern park boundary of Arches National Park in eastern Utah, USA is the Moab Fault. It extends along Moab Canyon, roughly parallel with Rt. 191. Across the road from the park's visitor center is a nice roadcut (see above photo) with beds of the (apparently) Honaker Trail Formation (Pennsylvanian) that have been chewed up by minor splays of the Moab Fault System.
Locality: roadcut on the southern side of Rt. 191, south of Arches National Park visitor center, Moab Canyon, northwest of the town of Moab, southern Grand County, eastern Utah, USA (38° 36’ 51.40” North latitude, 109° 37’ 15.03” West longitude)
This rock was half-finished when a hidden fault stopped the work.
Often, fractures may be hidden and only open up when shaping a stone. Even with very careful chiselling / hammering one cannot avoid disasters.
This stone was later re-shaped by hand to make a smaller headstone. It's a tricky, sugary red granite that has to be handled with care when shaping.
Small adit and ;winze along dilatent zone in footwall of fault in at Black Butte in the Goldfield Mining District in Nevada.
How the area around some fault in something of old glass (must heaven forbid, be vintage Nikkor) may look if you look really close. Say, with a reversed 50mm lens.
This is actually on the lamp I used as a 'lens' taking this. Don't worry, I doubt it will have much to say on image quality when used as a 'lens'!
Photoshoot with the band Cascadia Fault Line, 13th of April, while they were recording some songs in the Nordic Church, Liverpool, England.
Taken about an hour into a flight from San Francisco to Chicago. I wonder what caused such a pattern in the rocks below- looks too big and uniform to be water erosion.
Recovered files from a Quantel Paintbox video painting system previously used at Tyne Tees TV around 2000. All images are 720*576 but some are anamorphic widescreen so will appear vertically stretched.
This seismogram is from the Pine Spring seismic station in Utah, USA. The noise was caused by a magnitude 4.6 earthquake that hit central Nevada at 12:34 AM, local time, on 19 July 2023. The epicenter was in Bean Flat, between Monitor Valley and Koben Valley, and southeast of the Simpson Park Mountains. The hypocenter was shallow - less than 5 kilometers deep. Shaking resulted from normal faulting along a northeast to southwest striking fault zone.
Nevada is part of western America's Basin and Range Physiographic Province, which consists of a series of mountain ranges and valleys formed by extensional tectonics. Numerous normal faults are present in the area. Mountain ranges are upthrown blocks called "horsts". Valleys are downthrown blocks called "grabens".
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Info. at:
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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.
portion of magnetic induction part of the impeller as recovered from the body of the device - the nature of the way in which the impeller is rotated means that any rotation of the two parts of the magnetic induction parts (held together when in situ) will still rotate the impeller BUT irregularly
£5 instead of £30 or so from Accessorize :D
Just a few beads coming away and the bag charm fallen off.
Notice the curve of the stream. Before the September Earthquake it was a straight line, now offset by about five feet. It was more apparent in the road but was difficult to get a good picture.
A memorial window to General Gordon in St. Barbara's Garrison Church, Chatham. A very patronising view of peoples but that's not Gordon's fault here.
The Crystal Springs Reservoir sits on the San Andreas earthquake fault.
Source: Wikipedia
“The San Andreas Fault is the sliding boundary between the Pacific Plate and the
North American Plate. It slices ,California in two from Cape Mendocino to the
Mexican border. “
Sergipe Alagoas Basin, Laranjeiras, SE , Brasil. Bleaching probably due to reduction from deeper fluids
Exposure: (1/60) || Aperture: f/5|| Focal Length: 28mm (56mm) || Iso: 200 || Croped
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There is snow in Denmark* I have been here for two days, but i will disappear today :-(
*not on the photo, that is ice
Just below the dark coal the hard layer of sandstone has been offset by about several feet of overlap. Running diagonally down to the left from this area of overlap is what appears to be the track of a reverse fault. As I interpret the evidence, it seems that as the rocks were being subjected to intense compressive forces they began to buckle into a downward fold forming the Sideling Hill syncline. As the rocks were bent, different layers began to slip past each other (just as the pages of a thick phone book will slip past each other if the book is folded). The more ductile coal and shales could deform fairly easily, however, the more resistant rocks like this thin hard sandstone must have developed a severe kink that eventually ruptured. (Imagine a piece of stiff shirt cardboard inserted between the pages of the aforementioned phone book.) The really unusual aspect of the rock is the fact that the sandstone layer overlapped with the right-hand part on top of the left-hand part, yet below it the rocks on the left appear to have been thrust up and to the right on a diagonal line in what I would call an intraformational reverse fault that absorbed some of the compression. This causes some interesting and anomalous geometry in the rocks. While in the process of creating the overlap a portion of the ductile coal that normally lies above the sandstone layer looks to have been forced into a pocket below and to the right of the overlap.
Road cut faults across from the Arches National Park Visitor Center. The large railroad splay of the Moab fault also can be seen in the roadside ditch right next to the visitor center parking lot
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Polished fault plane in Nigüelas Fault (Granada) / Plano de falla pulido en la falla de Nigüelas (Granada)
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