Faulting

Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes.

A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries

Due to the presence of several active geologic faults and the Central America Volcanic Arc, seismic activity in the region, such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, is high

It was formed 36 million years ago when the faults collapsed when the Andes were uplifted in the late Eocene.

The Goulburn River was dammed by the southern end of the fault to create a natural lake.

Vättern formed by tectonics as a graben 700 to 800 million years ago in the Neoproterozoic.

It is cleaved by the Swan Island fault, which divides the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates and forms the southern boundary of the Cayman Trough.

The Davis Strait is underlain by complex geological features of buried grabens (basins) and ridges, formed by strike-slip faulting of the Ungava Fault Zone during Paleogene times about 45 million to 62 million years ago.

The Ohrid and Prespa Lakes are the two largest in a north-south chain of tectonic basins (grabens)

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

A graben () in geology is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

The lake depression is a graben bounded by faults active in the Cenozoic.

Mostly mountainous, the region arose through faults resulting from the Rift Valley.

Such mountain systems have a complex structure, which is usually the result of folding and faulting accompanied by volcanic activity.