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| − | [[Image:Creep.jpg|thumb|300px|En echelon shears crossing street, Hayward Hayward, California. The street shows en echelon shears crossing Foothill Boulevard in San Leandro, just to the north of Hayward. Here the shear zone is quite narrow.]]'''Creep''' is slow, more or less continuous movement occurring on [fault]]s due to ongoing tectonic deformation. Faults that are creeping do not tend to have large [[earthquake]]s.<ref> | + | [[Image:Creep.jpg|thumb|300px|En echelon shears crossing street, Hayward Hayward, California. The street shows en echelon shears crossing Foothill Boulevard in San Leandro, just to the north of Hayward. Here the shear zone is quite narrow.]]'''Creep''' is slow, more or less continuous movement occurring on [[fault]]s due to ongoing tectonic deformation. Faults that are creeping do not tend to have large [[earthquake]]s.<ref>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php?term=creep</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:43, October 8, 2007
Creep is slow, more or less continuous movement occurring on faults due to ongoing tectonic deformation. Faults that are creeping do not tend to have large earthquakes.[1]