Two sites, NWCC and RLAP, straddle the Reelfoot thrust fault-scarp across a fault-normal distance of ∼ 11 km, and show a relative convergence of ∼ 2.7 ± 1.6 mm yr-1 .

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There’s no doubt about it,” he said, scrambling into a 15-foot-long trench cut perpendicularly across the scarp. He named it the Spencer Canyon fault, after the drainage where it’s located.

In the Japan trench bottom ~7500 deep, a 26 m high fault scarp that formed at 2011 Tohoku-oki megaquake was discovered during a manned submersible dive. It lies on the eastern slope of a ~60 m ...