The second main earthquake hazard is ground displacement (ground movement) along a fault. If a structure (a building, road, etc.) is built across a fault, the ground displacement during an earthquake ...

When a lateral displacement takes place on a fracture, the break is referred to as a fault. Earthquakes are associated ... instruct one student to color a road with several houses along it on ...

with a local stretch of road known today as Old Light Road,” she noted. Hughes theorizes shallow earthquakes in the Summerville area could be releasing “a water-soluble gas like radon or ...