How do scientists determine where faults are located?

Question

How do scientists determine where faults are located?

Answer 1

To begin with, they need to know where the faults are in your neighbourhood because earthquakes happen when faults move. Geologists map fault locations using a combination of photos taken from satellites and airplanes along with exploring faults on the ground.

Scientists can tell if the faults in your neighbourhood are active by using seismometers to monitor for smaller earthquakes and by looking for evidence of rupture from recent earthquakes in the layers of rock near the surface.

Answer 2

seismograph. it tells them where the faults are by the amount of moment on a particular part of the earth

Answer 3

Well, they use air photos, siesmographs, features on the ground such as ; offset roads, a tree line (growing in an unusual place because of the water coming up out of the fault), sag ponds, offset mountains, fault gouge (its a crushed rock material caused by the tension or friction at a fault zone), springs, fault scarps (where the ground raises up higher along a particular area), and tsunami orgins (they are caused by earthquakes. Those are a few...there are many other ways.....