{"id":1060,"date":"2014-02-19T02:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2014-02-19T02:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:51:34","slug":"difference-between-a-fault-plane-trace-scarp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Difference between a Fault plane, trace, scarp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Olivia F.<\/i>: Difference between a Fault plane, trace, scarp?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between these 3 types of faults? Definitions.. I&#8217;m confused<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by cakes4southafrica<\/i><br \/>The fault plane is the planar (flat) surface along which there is slip during an earthquake.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/glossary\/?term=fault%20plane<\/p>\n<p>The fault trace is the intersection of a fault with the ground surface; also, the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/glossary\/?term=fault%20trace<\/p>\n<p>The fault scarp is the feature on the surface of the earth that looks like a step caused by slip on the fault.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/glossary\/?term=fault%20scarp<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give your answer to this question below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Olivia F.: Difference between a Fault plane, trace, scarp? What is the difference between these 3 types of faults? Definitions.. I&#8217;m confused Best answer: Answer by cakes4southafricaThe fault plane is the planar (flat) surface along which there is slip during an earthquake. http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/glossary\/?term=fault%20plane The fault trace is the intersection of a fault with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[676,1779,21,1316,2741,1457],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-between","tag-difference","tag-fault","tag-plane","tag-scarp","tag-trace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}