Question

The town of Nelson is equidistant from two faults, the Mosaic fault and the Simcoe fault. Both faults are capable of producing earthquakes up to M7 The Mosaic fault has a slip rate of 0.1 mm/yr and the Simcoe fault has a slip rate of 10 mm/yr. Which fault poses a greater hazard to the town of Nelson?

Answer 1

Simcoe fault can do further damage to infrastructure

Step-by-step explanation:

Given data:

slip rate of mosaic fault is 0.1 mm/year

slip rate smicoe fault is 10 mm/year

Simcoe fault can do further damage to infrastructure because the scale of the earthquake is a feature of the slip during fault. The higher the slip, the size of the earthquake is higher and the smaller the slip, the severity of the earthquake size is smaller.