The reconnaissance photographs helped geologists map surface ruptures, fault lines, and potential landslide sites.

What is surface faulting or surface rupture in an earthquake?

The last know surface rupture was less than 5,000 years ago.

The total surface rupture was ca.

This earthquake was associated with the longest surface rupture ever recorded on land, 450 km.

The earthquake was at the time the "longest recorded normal-fault surface rupture in historic time."

It caused no surface ruptures and did not generate a tsunami.

Due to its magnitude, the quake was believed to have caused a surface rupture near the epicenter.

The surface rupture caused by the earthquake was 23 km long.

Expansion joints were placed between the surface rupture blocks and the rest of the stadium.