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Geological evidence of the effects of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault in California.
From the Postcrossing "Just Postcards" RR #1508.
Still without a livery being applied on one side, the first Metro Trains X'Trapolis 2.0 train stands inside the large and historic station at Ballarat as Alstom employees inspect the train for faults before continuing to Newport Workshops hauled by T386 & P12 on SSR transfer train 9166. 8/12/24
Bet you didn't know the moon had one. Right there it is, just about at the same place as the one California :) The Snow Moon works its way up through the branches. No snow on the branches though :( The Moon Appears to be coming in the like Glinda, we are not in Kansas now Toto :)
Remembering BMRC
Fault Line-Rolling Stones Original
Arlissa
Faultlne
The Doobie Brothers
Livin' On The Fault Line
In Search of Winter Beauty's Tour in the Woods of Virginia.
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A 15-image panorama annotated with some of the principal fault and fracture planes. That's El Capitan and the Guadalupe Mountains behind.
Schell Creek Range. View to the north. This mountain range is the second longest in Nevada extending about 132 miles. The stratigraphic column here is about 5 miles thick and is composed of rocks of late Precambrian to Recent age. The range exhibits some of the oldest extensional faulting in the eastern Great Basin including two low-angle detachment faults. Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. White Pine Co., Nevada
The European and American tectonic plates meet here, so you can stand with one foot on two continents.
💘 Cupid's Fault Fair 💘
February 1-20, 2022
❥ LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACCESS%202/123/122/2501
❥ CAM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ACCESS/220/129/2501
by ACCESS
RD13929. One of the visiting locomotives for the Mid-Hants Railway's LMS themed 2016 Autumn Steam Gala was Fowler 7F Somerset & Dorset Railway 2-8-0 53809. Unfortunately, it developed a fault and had to spend the gala on shed at Ropley awaiting repairs.
Friday, 21st October, 2016. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
This month is #preparedness month at USGS. We'll be sharing information throughout the month related earthquakes, volcanoes, and other natural hazards as well as information about being informed and prepared for events like this.
This photo, taken in November 2002, shows USGS's Peter Haeussler preparing to measure the offset of a crevasse on the Canwell Glacier. On Nov 3, 2002 a M7.9 earthquake struck near Denali National Park in Alaska—the largest event on the Denali fault since 1912—and last 1-1/2 - 2 minutes. Although the Denali Fault shifted about 14 feet beneath the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, the pipeline did not break, averting a major economic and environmental disaster. This was largely the result of stringent design specifications based on geologic studies done by the USGS and others 30 years earlier.
This is a youthful-appearing fault scarp south of Arsia Mons, also imaged by the Context Camera onboard MRO. Our resolution can help us determine if the scarp is indeed (geologically) fresh, or perhaps just buried by wind-driven sediment.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Another editorial shot from the current issue of the London magazine Fault.
Photography: Henrik Adamsen / www.henrikadamsen.com
Styling: Sarah Paaschburg
Makeup: Monika Grensteen @ Uniquelook
Model: Anna T @ 2pm
Apologies for the very poor picture quality, but this upload is about the derailment rather than photography. Not one of my photos, but I was on this train when it derailed, sat at the window behind the open door in fact. If ever there was a day I wish I'd had a camera with me this was it, but I've had to make do with this very poor scan of a newspaper cutting.
This was the scene on Wednesday 25th March 1992 when the train I was travelling home on at the end of a night shift became derailed while travelling at about 50mph over pointwork near Bickley Junction at about 08:18 that morning.
This was the 0750ish from Victoria to Ramsgate or Dover (can't remember which at the moment) via Chatham.
Working a week of 12-hour nights (1930-0730) in the RfD Control at Paddington that week, I had nodded off somewhere between Victoria and Bromley South and was woken violently from my slumbers when the bogie I was travelling immediately above leapt from the rails of the Down Chatham Slow and crossed violently onto the Up Line, ripping up track and lineside equipment as it banged and lurched forward.
Everything happened as if in slow motion and I can remember specifically two things as we lurched and crashed onward - first, mounting concern over the approaching supports of the bridge which carried the South Eastern Main Line over the Chatham Main Line at this point (just visible at the right-hand side of the photo), and secondly concern also for several P.Way men who were stood on the Up Slow as this carriage approached sideways-on, churning up track, ballast and clouds of dust as it headed directly for them.
My worst fears were fortunately not realised in both cases - the P.Way chaps crossed safely to the Up Side cess by crossing the Fast Lines, and the train came to a halt before striking the bridge supports - which was nice!
With those fears receding as the train was coming to rest, the next worry was the potential that a train might be approaching on the Down Fast which the part of the train I was in was now foul of.
The aforementioned P.Way gangers had the excellent presence of mind under the circumstances to by now be running in each direction to try to stop any traffic which may be moving on the adjacent lines. Fortunately there was nothing in the vicinity, and it was time for the dust to settle.
Time to evacuate the train, but not without due care for the likely test re-energisation of the third rail after a tripping. Sure enough, while I was at the door of the unit (on the other side) considering my options there was a bang, flash, and another cloud of dust and flying ballast as it was duly re-energised and tripped back out again! A glance back toward Bickley Jn found a trail of destruction in our wake, including a gas cylinder blazing nicely from its outlet valve.
Another thing I'll never forget is the look on the driver's face as he walked back to investigate. I encountered him as he was walking along the concrete troughing under the bridge at the moment he first saw the devastation: "What the f*****g hell's happened here" I believe his words were.....
For me, and the few passengers on board, it was up on to the concrete platform of the electrical substation to get out of the way and await developments. It wasn't much longer before the air filled with the sound of emergency services sirens and a huge fleet of ambulances and fire engines converged on Chislehurst signal box (roughly behind the photographer in this picture).
After a check-up by ambulance personnel I was given a lift to Grove Park in an ambulance and then continued on my journey home via Hither Green and Dartford to Gillingham. Home indoors and in bed by about 2pm to get up at 5pm for another journey to London (this time via Dartford) and another 12-hour night shift.
I have never been able to track down a copy of the accident report and would dearly love to, along with any better photographs, but I suppose the existence of such photos is probably quite unlikely now.
As a result I don't know the reason for this derailment, although the 'grapevine' at the time indicated that some equipment had been pinching cabling attached to a point motor for some time and that this had eventually led to a circuit being erroneously completed and the points changing when the coach I was travelling in was running over the points - the leading bogie taking the correct line, and the trailing bogie trying to cross over to the Down Fast.
It would be great to track down a proper accident report and find out what really happened.
Update No1 (20th July 2009):
Further to my ramblings above, I think I have found a reference on-line to an incident in the Bickley area at: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/strike-curbs-could-follow-r... which says little more than the Driver was held responsible, and indicates the date as being Thursday 8th September 1994.
Update No 2 (28th July 2009):
Having spoken to the ORR (Office of the Rail Regulator) I have now had verbal advice that this incident occurred at approximately 08:18 on Wednesday 25th March 1992, and was indeed caused by an S&T-related technical defect. It seems that there wasn't a formal investigation into this derailment but the ORR are looking at their archives to see if they hold any further information.
Update No.3 (20th October 2009):
The only information held by the ORR is as follows:
"There were derailments at Bickley (SR) London , where an incorrect design of point detection wiring had not been discovered and corrected despite a special check. As a result an EMU was derailed after an obstruction had stopped a point blade from moving"
One of five reportable accidents caused by 'wrong-side signalling equipment failures' in 1992, the others listed being at Aberdeen, Marylebone, Craigendoran and Rayleigh.
Yesterday I made an excursion to Point Reyes, taking advantage of the heatwave (earthquake weather) and absence of fog on the coast. Point Reyes lies on the San Andreas fault, Pacific ocean at left, Drakes Bay at right.
When dowloading the photos from the camera at 9PM last night, I felt an earthquake and 2 aftershocks. No damage or injuries reported, it was only a 4.0 strength.
Song lyrics by Natalie Merchant:
San Andreas Fault
moved it's fingers
through the ground
earth divided
plates collided
such an awful sound
San Andreas Fault
moved its fingers
through the ground
terra cotta shattered
and walls came
tumbling down
o promised land
o wicked ground
build a dream
tear it down
This is my favorite field trip fault. It is a normal fault in sandstone/shale strata along the Devil's Slide walk/bike trail, south of Pacifica, CA.
I use it as one station in the field trip where I ask students to sketch and label the fault. They spot it pretty quickly, and they can get up close and personal to observe the drag characteristics in the fault.
The strata were thrust up from the floor of the Pacific and accreted onto the western side of N. America.
Given the drop of a couple hundred feet to the surf on the far side of this outcrop, I expect this fault is also the lower surface of a slump, as the upper block slips toward the void.
Fault in negative.
The middle road between Platforms 3 and 4 and Platform 1 are already gone.
The pegs show where the solitary new set of points will lead into Platform 3 as was.
Location: Tanjong Sepat 丹戎士拔
Date Taken: August 6th, 2010
Nikon D90, Nikkor AF-S DX VR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
ISO 500, F16, 1/200, +1/3 EV, FL=62mm, ND8
110-million-year-old sedimentary rocks (Whatuwhiwhi Formation), cut by a small fault, exposed in the shore platform at Waiari, Karikari Peninsula. These rocks were deposited as a series of submarine landslides into a deep-ocean environment during the last days of the Gondwana Supercontinent. The prominent beds protruding from the platform are harder sandstone, separated by softer, more erodable mudstones.
(ArkhaM Knight)
5K Render
jim2point0 CE table (freecamera and fov)
.ini tweak (no motion blur, no DoP, no Occlusion, no Bloom, no lensflare)
UE command lines (players only, DET binds)
DET Driven
A few outcrops of slate from previous quarrying activity on Birnam Hill. The Highland Boundary Fault runs a hundred yards to the right of this shot, emerging in the middle distance and turning right at the foothills of the distant hills.
Taken from the Glassford HIll Summit Trail; July 4, 2017; Elevation approximately 6,000 feet above see level.
To get the bus through its MOT we must fix all the electrical faults on the bus. Tachograph and speedo has failed, Low Oil pressure warning light is jammed on, Hand brake warning light is not working, High temp light and alarm is on constantly. As you can see the dashboard has been stripped out to start addressing these issues.
Metroline DE1589 (LK08FKW) is seen in Uxbridge blinded for U4 to Ruislip, Heathfield Rise.
This is a fault on all 08 plate DEs and DEL2161. They can also display U4 to Uxbridge, Industrial Estate (which was going to be the U11 destination)