Archinect - News2024-05-01T23:13:06-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/125524892/how-fault-creep-is-very-slowly-tearing-one-california-town-apart
How fault creep is (very slowly) tearing one California town apart Alexander Walter2015-04-17T17:45:00-04:00>2015-04-20T20:43:04-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f3/f32962cd43dc8bd07b4907132a4dfd23?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>South of San Francisco, a whole town is being deformed by plate tectonics. [...]
This is Hollister, California, a town being broken in two slowly, relentlessly, and in real time by an effect known as “fault creep.” A surreal tide of deformation has appeared throughout the city.
As if its grid of streets and single-family homes was actually built on an ice floe, the entire west half of Hollister is moving north along the Calaveras Fault, leaving its eastern streets behind.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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