Faulting

Upthrown block lying between two steep-angled fault blocks.

As a purely scientific term in geology, however, a "massif" is separately and more specifically defined as a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures.

The Great Kantō Earthquake (Japanese: 関東大地震, Kantō daijishin, or 関東大震災, Kantō daishinsai) was a megathrust earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, 1 September 1923.

The earthquake ruptured the fault for over 240 km (150 mi), with surface displacements of several meters.

A graben () in geology is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.

The North Anatolian Fault (NAF; Turkish: Kuzey Anadolu Fay Hattı) is an active right-lateral strike-slip fault in northern Anatolia, and is the transform boundary between the Eurasian plate and the Anatolian sub-plate.

The Denali Fault is a major intracontinental dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault in western North America, extending from northwestern British Columbia, Canada to the central region of the U.S. state of Alaska.

The Hayward Fault Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip geologic fault zone capable of generating destructive earthquakes.

The Glarus thrust (German: Glarner Überschiebung) is a major thrust fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland.

The Great Glen Fault is a strike-slip fault that runs through the Great Glen in Scotland.

The Sagaing Fault is a major fault in Myanmar, a mainly continental right-lateral transform fault between the Indian plate and Sunda plate.

The Chaman Fault is a major, active geological fault in Pakistan and Afghanistan that runs for over 850 km.

The Red River Fault or Song Hong Fault (Vietnamese: Đới Đứt Gãy Sông Hồng) is a major fault in Yunnan, China and Vietnam which accommodates continental China's (Yangtze plate) southward movement.

The Great Sumatran fault, also known as Semangko fault, is a large strike-slip fault running the entire length of the island of Sumatra.

The Moine Thrust Belt or Moine Thrust Zone is a linear tectonic feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast 190 kilometres (120 mi) southwest to the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye.

The Wasatch Fault is an active fault located primarily on the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains in the U.S. states of Utah and Idaho.

A fault scarp is a small step-like offset of the ground surface in which one side of a fault has shifted vertically in relation to the other.

In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheetlike body of rock that has been moved more than 2 km (1.2 mi) or 5 km (3.1 mi) above a thrust fault from its original position.

A shutter ridge is a ridge that has moved along a fault line, blocking or diverting drainage.

Formed by tectonic subsidence along an ancient fault zone in the basement of the Scythian Plate, the depression has repeatedly served as a marine strait linking the Black Sea and Caspian Sea basins over the past several million years, most recently during the late Pleistocene.

A pull-apart basin is a structural basin where two overlapping (en echelon) strike-slip faults or a fault bend create an area of crustal extension undergoing tension, which causes the basin to sink down.

Eureka Valley is a graben, like most other lower-lying areas of the Basin and Range Province.

The conservation area showcases a set of large red rock formations: a set of sandstone peaks and walls that were formed by thrust faults including the Keystone Thrust.

The extension results in the thinning and deformation of the upper crust, causing it to fracture and create a series of long parallel normal faults.

Such mountain systems have a complex structure, which is usually the result of folding and faulting accompanied by volcanic activity.

This is a normal fault whose fault scarp has been eroded, forming a strandflat.

The valley follows the line of the Bonndorf Rift Valley (Bonndorfer Graben), which runs from Kaiserstuhl via the Wutach gorge and Hegau to Lake Constance and is part of this tectonically formed fault.