https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/deadly-california-fault-line-may-wake-with-80-quake/news-story/f4ff5d71168351dd68eab3a63b798b5b

Basically, the Ridgecrest fault is affecting the Garlock fault, which in turn may trigger the San Andreas fault. The Ridgecrest fault has been active, highlighting previously unknown minor faults in California. Geologists say they don’t know if or when Garlock might become active, but if it does, a major earthquake is on its way.

(Drinking game: down a shot every time the author says “lets loose” in the article.)

Divine Angel said:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/deadly-california-fault-line-may-wake-with-80-quake/news-story/f4ff5d71168351dd68eab3a63b798b5b

Basically, the Ridgecrest fault is affecting the Garlock fault, which in turn may trigger the San Andreas fault. The Ridgecrest fault has been active, highlighting previously unknown minor faults in California. Geologists say they don’t know if or when Garlock might become active, but if it does, a major earthquake is on its way.

(Drinking game: down a shot every time the author says “lets loose” in the article.)

MV, people are saying Fault Lines!!!

Even worserer, I was considering replacing “geologists” with “rock hunters” :p

Divine Angel said:

Even worserer, I was considering replacing “geologists” with “rock hunters” :p

rock lickers is betterer.

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/deadly-california-fault-line-may-wake-with-80-quake/news-story/f4ff5d71168351dd68eab3a63b798b5b

Basically, the Ridgecrest fault is affecting the Garlock fault, which in turn may trigger the San Andreas fault. The Ridgecrest fault has been active, highlighting previously unknown minor faults in California. Geologists say they don’t know if or when Garlock might become active, but if it does, a major earthquake is on its way.

(Drinking game: down a shot every time the author says “lets loose” in the article.)

MV, people are saying Fault Lines!!!

I’ll try not to notice. I’ll blame “the Media”.

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/deadly-california-fault-line-may-wake-with-80-quake/news-story/f4ff5d71168351dd68eab3a63b798b5b

Basically, the Ridgecrest fault is affecting the Garlock fault, which in turn may trigger the San Andreas fault. The Ridgecrest fault has been active, highlighting previously unknown minor faults in California. Geologists say they don’t know if or when Garlock might become active, but if it does, a major earthquake is on its way.

(Drinking game: down a shot every time the author says “lets loose” in the article.)

MV, people are saying Fault Lines!!!

I’ll try not to notice. I’ll blame “the Media”.

Oh yeah, the article is scraping the bottom of the dumbing down barrel.

Divine Angel said:

Even worserer, I was considering replacing “geologists” with “rock hunters” :p

Wouldn’t rock hunters be groupies?

Divine Angel said:

Even worserer, I was considering replacing “geologists” with “rock hunters” :p

You naughty person.

;)

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

ChrispenEvan said:

MV, people are saying Fault Lines!!!

I’ll try not to notice. I’ll blame “the Media”.

Oh yeah, the article is scraping the bottom of the dumbing down barrel.

They did actually start off talking about faults.

Then they moved to fault lines.

Then lines.

So I suppose they were just trying to make sure they annoyed everybody.

Apologies for the incorrect terminology, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6zPW7qA6RQ

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

ChrispenEvan said:

Divine Angel said:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/deadly-california-fault-line-may-wake-with-80-quake/news-story/f4ff5d71168351dd68eab3a63b798b5b

Basically, the Ridgecrest fault is affecting the Garlock fault, which in turn may trigger the San Andreas fault. The Ridgecrest fault has been active, highlighting previously unknown minor faults in California. Geologists say they don’t know if or when Garlock might become active, but if it does, a major earthquake is on its way.

(Drinking game: down a shot every time the author says “lets loose” in the article.)

MV, people are saying Fault Lines!!!

The Rev Dodgson said:

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

Nothing wrong with that. The intersection of a plane and a plane is a line. These are transverse faults so the latitudes and longitudes of the fault plane are similar to those of the fault line. I suppose you could go all 3-D and talk about a fault zone, but I wouldn’t unless it was necessary.

Is somebody claiming that the fault plane is moving and the fault line isn’t? Certainly possible, but unlikely.

Each decade I predict that “the big one” will be in the next decade. I’ve been wrong so far.

One of the books beside my bed right now is “The earth shook, the sky burned: A moving record of America’s great earthquake and fire: San Francisco, April 18, 1906”. I’ve been debating whether to read it next, or to read “The voyage of the endeavour”.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

Check Google scholar.

102,000 results for “fault line”
165,000 results for “fault plane”
641,000 results for “fault zone”

Admittedly, some 70% or so of hits for “fault line” have nothing to do with geology, instead being crappy metaphors for “transient situational disturbance” or describing faults in power distribution lines.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

It’s a line on a map and should be labelled eg “San Andreas Fault”. It’s a “fault trace” in the field where it intersects the surface, and a “fault” as a 3D structure. As a model or a diagram, it is sometimes referred to as a “fault plane” (although a fault is never completely planar).

It’s simpler to use less words and use “fault” for each of those instances.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

Check Google scholar.

102,000 results for “fault line”
165,000 results for “fault plane”
641,000 results for “fault zone”

Admittedly, some 70% or so of hits for “fault line” have nothing to do with geology, instead being crappy metaphors for “transient situational disturbance” or describing faults in power distribution lines.

“Fault Zone” refers to a zone of faults, interconnected, and often anastamosing. Many large named faults are in truth fault zones, often many metres, sometimes many tens of metres wide. The Peel Fault, a major fault system in NSW that separates New England from the rest of NSW comprises many fault zones along its length. Rarely are the zones less than one metre wide.

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Serious question for mv:

Are you allowed to refer to the line where a fault intersects the surface as a fault line?

Check Google scholar.

102,000 results for “fault line”
165,000 results for “fault plane”
641,000 results for “fault zone”

Admittedly, some 70% or so of hits for “fault line” have nothing to do with geology, instead being crappy metaphors for “transient situational disturbance” or describing faults in power distribution lines.

“Fault Zone” refers to a zone of faults, interconnected, and often anastamosing. Many large named faults are in truth fault zones, often many metres, sometimes many tens of metres wide. The Peel Fault, a major fault system in NSW that separates New England from the rest of NSW comprises many fault zones along its length. Rarely are the zones less than one metre wide.

I hadn’t heard of “fault trace”
23,300 results for “fault trace”

That’s of the same order of hits as “fault line” after removing the hits for “fault line” that have nothing to do with geology.

> anastamosing

Now word for me, looking it up.

“An anastomosis (plural anastomoses) is a connection or opening between two things (especially cavities or passages) that are normally diverging or branching, such as between blood vessels, leaf veins, or streams.”

A useful word for describing braided rivers, and for describing the interbreeding that happens in the early millennia of genetic divergence.