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Image shows 1 meter offseet of highway pavement in southern California during the movement on a strike-slip fault in 1992

3 meter high scrap in central Idaho occured during movement on a normal dip-slip fault in 1983.

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11.7 How do earthquakes relate to rock deformation?

Motion along faults: Note the displacement in the highway (left) of a right-lateral strike-slip fault (the farther block moved to the right relative to the closer one), and the fault scarp (right) on the footwall of a normal dip-slip fault.