Possible Cause of Earthquakes
Detailed Description
The new U.S. stress map. The colors show the style of faulting - red is normal faulting, white is strike-slip, and blue is thrust. The black lines show the direction of the stress. The 3 locations in the central U.S. that are different than the areas around them are the regions of highest hazard on the U.S. hazard map (below).
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Public Domain.
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A Possible Cause of Earthquakes in the Continental Interior
Release Date: JUNE 18, 2018 A new map of crustal stress across the U.S. shows that the plate interior stress is variable, with contributions from plate boundary stress, crustal collapse due to gravity, and more local and subtle changes to style, orientation, and earthquake rate.