Question

g Locate the epicenter of the 1906 quake. Does the amount of horizontal slip decrease faster along the northern end or the southern end of the rupture? (In other words, where does the amount of horizontal slip NOT increase along the rupture? The northern or southern end of the fault, in relation to the epicenter?)

Answer 1

Answer:

Epicenter at San Francisco

Explanation:

• The California earthquake that occurred on April 18, 1906, ranks one of the most significant of all the earthquakes and created a rapture of 296 miles of the San Andrea fault to the triple junction of the Cape Mendocino to the larger horizontal displacement at a greater length and strong shocks lasted for 40 to 60 seconds.

• The large horizontal rapture was set off by the plate tectonics and  1906 displacements and strain in the surrounding crust and lead to the formation of the elastic-rebound theory principle mode of the cycle of earthquakes.