| 1. | The earthquakes occurred on a major strike-slip fault beneath the Tarim Basin.
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| 2. | Transform faults move differently than a strike-slip fault at the mid-oceanic ridge.
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| 3. | Faults which have components of both ( termed'oblique'slip faults ) are abundant.
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| 4. | The source of this earthquake was a sinistral ( left-lateral ) strike-slip fault.
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| 5. | Strike-slip faults with left-lateral motion are also known as " sinistral " faults.
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| 6. | Quakes along strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas fault, tend to move horizontally.
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| 7. | The nation's most famous strike-slip fault is the San Andreas.
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| 8. | The straightness of its surface trace suggests the LRF has been a strike-slip fault.
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| 9. | The convergence of the two blocks continued even after their collision, generating strike-slip faults.
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| 10. | The strike-slip faults that runs nearly the length of California.
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