Can you please send me a listing of the biggest faults on the earth.
Can you also tell me what is the biggest fault in California.
Thank you
Aaron Kachuck
Aaron, what do you mean by big? Do you mean capable of the biggest
earthquakes? If so, what you really want is a list of the biggest earthquakes
in historical times, because there may be faults out there that haven't
ruptured recently enough for us to know about them. Or do you mean the longest
faults (San Andreas ranks right up there) or the biggest surface area (here
you'd want a subduction zone fault like the one beneath the Aleutians or
Tonga-Kermadec trench.
Richard
Thank you very much for replying to my message. I really did want to know
about faults and not earthquakes. Can you please send me references?
Thanks again,
Aaron Kachuck.