The amount of horizontal slip, or relative movement along the fault, varied from 2 to 32 feet 0. To better visualize this, picture standing face to face with a person on the opposite side of the fault and watching them slide horizontally 32 feet to your right!
The following file depicts the rupture length and the horizontal slip in feet along the rupture as a histogram. Scientists now believe that details in the geology along the earthquake fault plane, and differences in stress levels, may contribute to these changes in the amount of slip along the fault. Earthquake ruptures travel at phenomenal speeds. The following rupture tour shows how fast the rupture traveled north from the epicenter.
To view more sophisticated simulations of the rupture and strong ground shaking produced by the earthquake, see models that recreate the Ground Motions Simulations. Most earthquake damage results from strong shaking.
Damage caused by fault rupture, landslides, and ground failure typically accounts for only a small fraction of the total damage from earthquakes. San Francisco City Hall after the Earthquake. The California earthquake of April 18, ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time.
Today, its importance comes more from the wealth of scientific knowledge derived from it than from its sheer size. Rupturing the northernmost miles kilometers of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino, the earthquake confounded contemporary geologists with its large, horizontal displacements and great rupture length.
Indeed, the significance of the fault and recognition of its large cumulative offset would not be fully appreciated until the advent of plate tectonics more than half a century later.
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The lowballing city figures may have been a public relations ploy to downplay the disaster with an eye on rebuilding the city. On April 20, the U. Chicago rescued 20, victims, one of the largest sea evacuations in history, rivaling Dunkirk in World War II. Martial law was not declared, but some looters were shot by police and the military. The epicenter of this earthquake has moved around in the past years, as advances in seismology have been made.
It was first thought to have been in Marin County, then northwest of the Golden Gate, and most recently, in the Pacific Ocean about two miles west of San Francisco. The plate-tectonics theory that would shed some light on the quake wasn't formulated until the s and not embraced until some three decades later. During the earthquake, the ground west of the fault tended to move northward and, in the most extreme instance, a foot shift was measured.
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