The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km in California. It forms tectonic boundary between Pacific plate and North American Plate. Its motion is right-lateral strike-slip. It is divided into three segments, and each of this segments has different characteristics and different degree of earthquake risk. The most significant segment is the southern one, which passes within about 35 miles of Los Angeles. This fault was first identified by professor Andrew Lawson from the UC Berkley in 1895.
Answer:
Surface waves have a longer duration and higher amplitude than body waves.
Explanation:
The stark difference between an earthquake body and surface waves is such that they have longer duration and a higher amplitude compared to body waves.
There are two categories of seismic waves that usually accompanies an earthquake:
- body waves are faster and perpetuate in the subsurface. They reach the seismic station first and are discovered faster.
- surface waves arrives later and they cause the damage produced by most earthquake waves. They perpetuate on the surface.
- surface waves are the love and Rayleigh waves
- body waves are the primary and secondary waves.
There's three types of plate boundaries:
- Collision plate boundaries (where two or more plates of the same density collide )
- Adjacent plate boundaries (where two or more plates slide against each other)
- Subduction plate boundaries (where one or more plates with lesser density are subducting below the the plate that has bigger density).
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