Question

Where would you expect to experience an earthquake from thrust faulting?

Answer 1

Seattle.

Step-by-step explanation:

Thrust Fault is a phenomenon in which older rocks thrusts over the younger rocks. Thrust fault sites are the sites where most hazardous earthquakes have occured such as Tohoku earthquake, Japan.

Seattle Fault is a site of manifold of thrust faults and reverse faults. The site that might experience an earthquake from thrust faulting. The Seattle Fault is situated between the Puget Sound Lowland and Seattle. The site has been a site of major earthquake of 7. magnitude.

Thus the correct answer is Seattle.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Thrust and Reverse faults are caused by horizontal compressive stresses and thus cause the crust to shorten. Since the hangingwall rises up relative to the footwall, over younger rocks, several of these faults position older rocks. Younger over older relationships can occur when formerly deformed rocks fail to thrust