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Entry: Active fault

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A fault that is considered likely to undergo renewed movement within a period of concern to humans. Faults are commonly considered to be active if they have moved one or more times in the last 10,000 years, but they may also be considered active when assessing the hazard for very critical installations such as nuclear power plants even if movement has occurred in the last 500,000 years. Although faults that move in earthquakes today are active, not all active faults generate earthquakes - some are capable of moving aseismically (see creep, silent earthquake, slow earthquake; also, e.g., Johnston and Linde, 2002). More precise attempts (usually unsatisfactory) have been made to define “active” faults for legal or regulatory purposes.

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is a Concept | feature of interest
submitted byViqui Agazzi
accepted on 16 Nov 2023 16:16:25.596

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date accepted 16 Nov 2023 16:16:25.596
date submitted 16 Nov 2023 15:22:25.974
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entity Active fault
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item class Concept | feature of interest
label Active fault
notation c_d82bf41b
register earthfeaturetype
status status experimental
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account name victoria.agazzi@teledetection.fr
name Viqui Agazzi

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broader Fault
definition
en A fault that is considered likely to undergo renewed movement within a period of concern to humans. Faults are commonly considered to be active if they have moved one or more times in the last 10,000 years, but they may also be considered active when assessing the hazard for very critical installations such as nuclear power plants even if movement has occurred in the last 500,000 years. Although faults that move in earthquakes today are active, not all active faults generate earthquakes - some are capable of moving aseismically (see creep, silent earthquake, slow earthquake; also, e.g., Johnston and Linde, 2002). More precise attempts (usually unsatisfactory) have been made to define “active” faults for legal or regulatory purposes.
en A fault that has slipped during the present seismotectonic regime and is therefore likely to have renewed displacement in the future.
exact match c 005d7490
in scheme Earth features types
pref label Active fault
type Concept | feature of interest