Fault Plane

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Fault Plane

An earthquake occurs when a volume of rock, subject to deformation mechanisms of tectonic origin, breaks along a weak surface, which is denoted as fault, resulting in a relative displacement between the two blocks of rock separated by the fault plane.

The type of fault is specified according to the orientation (strike), sense of slip (rake) and the inclination (dip) of the fault plane.

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