This major structure has a vertical displacement of about 1500m as well as a lateral shift of 4km.

Everything else has been a lateral shift along man's band, but still within the same great band.

I want you to bypass all lateral shifts," he said, "and go directly to the next total world: the black world.

"A lateral shift in time, and a race of lateral time travelers," the Chief said.

But the bigger problem was to meet forthcoming New York City code requirements designed to protect buildings from the lateral shifts caused by earthquakes.

There are lateral shifts in the earth and rifts open up; trees and even steel-frame buildings topple.

Both waves are reflected from the surface and undergo different phase shifts, which leads to a lateral shift of the finite beam.

Above : The introduction of a transition curve requires a lateral shift of the line.

Note that for near disparities the lateral shift has to be larger to correspond to the same depth compared with far disparities.