Hello everyone - I have a dumb question- how do the geologists know if this location has a fault or not?
@ridor9th Usually through surveying the area and looking at seizmic activity. They've been gathering data all over the place for decades.
@sentientdessert Not good enough - how did they know we have fresh water in aquifers down there?
@ridor9th Tectonic movements travel differently through different materials... that's one guess. there's also looking at stiation of ubheavals or drilling.
Not an expert, was just trying to be helpful...
@sentientdessert But that does not solve something else - in the east coast, there are few fault lines - how did they find out about that? IN the West Coast, it is easy to identify this, that and there but in the East Coast, how did they find out?