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What are the key factors or parameters of fault rupture that influence the size of an earthquake?

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Answer:

magnitude, location

Step-by-step explanation:

Fault rupture or ground raptures are those that visible offset the ground surface when an earthquake occurs at a buried rapture. where there is no displacement of ground levels.

Types of faults are

1. Normal faulting is a simple fault scarp of superficial deposits that give rise to rise to surface graben.

2. Reverse faulting is a more complex surface rapture, which is liable to collapse like a back-thrust development.

3. Strike-slip faulting is associated with dominantly horizontal movement, occur in en-echelon faults

All these impacts the

  • size of the earthquake, the rate of all potential earthquakes,
  • the distance of the site and the
  • complexity of the fault.
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