Strike-Slip Faulting

Strike-slip faulting is horizontal motion in which the two blocks on either side of a near-vertical fault plane slide past one another laterally, with little or no vertical displacement. A transform fault is a strike-slip fault that accommodates plate motion at a plate boundary itself, the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey being the best-known examples, each capable of producing large, shallow, highly destructive earthquakes as stress accumulated by slow plate motion releases in sudden ruptures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/