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Earthquakes are caused by a slip on a fault, which is a fracture zone between two blocks of rock.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
Jones, a research associate at Caltech’s seismological lab, said the quake struck in the Mendocino fracture zone, just offshore from Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
The episode, in an area known as the Romanche fracture zone, is visualized in this graphic animation from Imperial College London.
—Virginia Langmaid and Judson Jones, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
Oaxaca, however, sits near what’s known as the Tehuantepec fracture zone, where choppy crust forms a ridge that pokes up into the sediments along the seafloor.
—National Geographic, 23 June 2020
Transform: Where plates slide past each other horizontally; also called fracture zones because the stress typically causes splintering into numerous faults, or fractures.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
Beneath this fracture zone, both older and newer data reveal a sizable reservoir of magma extending from about five to 11 miles under the crater.
—Steve Olson, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
Jones, a research associate at Caltech’s seismological lab, said the quake struck in the Mendocino fracture zone, just offshore from Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
The episode, in an area known as the Romanche fracture zone, is visualized in this graphic animation from Imperial College London.
—Virginia Langmaid and Judson Jones, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
Oaxaca, however, sits near what’s known as the Tehuantepec fracture zone, where choppy crust forms a ridge that pokes up into the sediments along the seafloor.
—National Geographic, 23 June 2020
Transform: Where plates slide past each other horizontally; also called fracture zones because the stress typically causes splintering into numerous faults, or fractures.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
Beneath this fracture zone, both older and newer data reveal a sizable reservoir of magma extending from about five to 11 miles under the crater.
—Steve Olson, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
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fracture zone
noun
: the area of bone, soft tissue, and blood vessels affected by or surrounding a bone fracture
This cytokine cascade recruits the cells of repair such as fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and osteoblasts, into the fracture zone to form the soft callus.—Eric T. Becken et al., Head, Face, and Neck Trauma: Comprehensive Managment
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