Rocio Karvis: It depends on what kind of earthquake it is and how powerful, but with the big ones it can deform the landscape. They can do this through uplift (where the ground on one half of the fault rises up), subsidence (the opposite of uplift; the ground drops on one side of the fault), or strike-slip (one side of the fault moves laterally relative to the other). Here's a picture of the landscape after being deformed from an earthquake along a strike-slip fault, which is what the San Andreas fault is in California: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7086/im......Show more
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