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An earthquake involving a system of small faults can be more damaging than a single event.
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How strike-slip faults form: The origin of earthquakes. One structural geologist calls it the 'million-dollar question' that underlies all work in her laboratory: what goes on deep in the earth as strike-slip faults form in the crust? This is the fault type that occurs when two tectonic plates slide past one another, generating the waves of energy we sometimes feel as earthquakes. Source 2i.