ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -A fault is a crack in the Earth’s crust. Typically, faults are associated with, or form, the boundaries between Earth’s tectonic plates. In an active fault, the pieces of the Earth’s crust along a fault move over time. The moving rocks can cause earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Faults are cracks in the earth’s crust along which there is movement. These can be massive (the boundaries between the tectonic plates themselves) or very small. If tension builds up along a fault and then is suddenly released, the result is an earthquake.

Detailed explanation-3: -A fault is formed in the Earth’s crust as a brittle response to stress. Generally, the movement of the tectonic plates provides the stress, and rocks at the surface break in response to this.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fault is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. During an earthquake, the rock on one side of the fault suddenly slips with relative to the other. The faults are most commonly found around the edge of plates which are continental-size blocks of rocks that comprise the outermost part of the earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -When the stress becomes too great, the plates suddenly slip past one another, releasing tremendous amounts of energy, which causes the earth to shake and crack. These cracks are called faults. Plate boundaries are made up of many faults. Most earthquakes occur on these faults.