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Active Fault

The document discusses active faults and their characteristics. It states that active faults are those that have shown movement or seismic activity in the last 10,000 years. Effects of movement on active faults include strong ground shaking, surface faulting, and landslides. Quaternary faults are those active in the last 1.6 million years. Related fields that study active faults include geomorphology, seismology, and plate tectonics.

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Active Fault

The document discusses active faults and their characteristics. It states that active faults are those that have shown movement or seismic activity in the last 10,000 years. Effects of movement on active faults include strong ground shaking, surface faulting, and landslides. Quaternary faults are those active in the last 1.6 million years. Related fields that study active faults include geomorphology, seismology, and plate tectonics.

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An active fault is a fault that is likely to become the source of another earthquake sometime in the

future. Geologists commonly consider faults to be active if there has been movement observed or
evidence of seismic activity during the last 10,000 years.

Active faulting is considered to be a geologic hazard - one related to earthquakes as a cause.


Effects of movement on an active fault include strong ground motion, surface faulting, tectonic
deformation, landslides and rockfalls, liquefaction, tsunamis, and seiches.[2]

Quaternary faults are those active faults that have been recognized at the surface and which have
evidence of movement in the past 1.6 million years - the duration of the Quaternary Period.[3]

Related geological disciplines for active-fault studies include geomorphology, seismology, reflection
seismology, plate tectonics, geodetics and remote sensing, risk analysis, and others.

Active and Inactive Faults


Following Tomas post let’s stay a little longer on the Corinth Canal. The 6 km long
famous Corinth Canal despite being an amazing feat of engineering, since it was
constructed 120 year ago, it’s also a geology field trip favourite because it is basically a
MEGA TRENCH.

More than 40 faults can be identified some of them offsetting the entire sedimentary
column, whereas others are confined within the lower sediments. Therefore, this photo
shows a very nice example of an active and inactive fault within the same outcrop. You
can rarely see something like that and this is a unique site where everybody can see
and comprehend it.

It shows also that faults die. This is very important because there are numerous faults in
the crust, however the majority of them are inactive (e.g. can not give an earthquake
today, but they did so in the past). So for earthquake geologists their first major goal is
to identify which of the faults they map are active (e.g. can generate earthquakes today
and represent seismic sources).
List Of Active Fault Lines In The Philippines

1. Marikina Valley Fault (Montalban, San Mateo, Marikina, Pasig, Taguig, Muntinlupa, San Pedro, Binan,
Carmona, Santa Rosa, Calamba, Tagaytay, Oriental Mindoro)
2. Western Philippine Fault (Luzon Sea, Mindoro Strait, Panay Gulf, Sulu Sea)
3. Eastern Philippine Fault (Philippine Sea)
4. Southern of Mindanao Fault (Moro Gulf, Celebes Sea)
5. Central Philippine Fault (Entire Ilocos Norte, Aurora, Quezon, Masbate, Eastern Leyte, Southern
Leyte, Agusan Del Norte, Agusan Del Sur, Davao del Norte)
Of these, the MARIKINA VALLEY FAULT poses the greatest danger because it cuts through all the modern
and progressive portions of Manila such as Eastwood, Rockwell, Ortigas Center, Bonifacio Global City, Ayala
Center, and Alabang. Also, the PhiVolcs people have warned that this fault line can move anytime because it is
already “11 years late” for its movement.

The Philippines is in the Pacific ring of fire,there are so many Major Faults in the country, and we have to
trenches surrounding both sides of our country the first one is located at the South China Sea and the other
one is called the Philippine trench which is located at the right side of our country, facing the pacific ocean.

*The earthquake that destroyed Guinsaugon is the Central Philippine Fault


*The 1990 earthquake that destroyed Central Luzon and Baguio is also the Central Philippine Fault.

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as
opposed to a widergully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole).[1]

In geology, trenches are created as a result of erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates.
In the civil engineering field, trenches are often created to install underground infrastructure or utilities (such
as gas mains, water mainsor telephone lines), or later to access these installations. Trenches have also often
been dug for military defensive purposes. In archaeology, the "trench method" is used for searching
and excavating ancient ruins or to dig into strata of sedimented material.

he Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine
trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific
Ocean and continues NNW-SSE [1] It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and a width of
about 30 km (19 mi) from the center of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the
northern Malukuisland of Halmahera in Indonesia.

Immediately to the north of the Philippine Trench is the East Luzon Trench. They are separated, with their
continuity interrupted and displaced, by Benham Plateau on the Philippine Sea Plate.

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