Earthquake movements,block artworks. At top is an unstressed block of the Earth's crust,with three layers shown and the future fault line shown as a dotted blue line. At centre,the slow build-up of stress due to plate tectonics has distorted the crust (white arrows) with the energy along the fault line signified by the red colour of the dotted line. An earthquake occurs when this energy is released (bottom),with the land either side moving (arrows),leaving a new unstressed fault line (blue dotted line) where the process repeats. Here the tectonic forces act parallel to the fault line,producing strike-slip earthquakes | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Lunau, Claus |
Bildgröße: | 2085 px × 4276 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |