How to Use strike-slip in a Sentence

strike-slip

noun

• They are known as transform faults, where this strike-slip motion happens as plates slide horizontally past each other.
  — Sylvain Barbot, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
• Initial data indicates both of these earthquakes were strike-slip, Magnani said, meaning one plate lurched past the other along the boundary.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 25 June 2026
• Normal and reverse faults involve vertical displacement—known as dip-slip—while strike-slip faults feature horizontal movement.
  — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• Kearse and Kaneko limited their study to strike-slip earthquakes, in which two blocks of rock slide horizontally past one another, because there are simply more data for them.
  — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
• The San Andreas and San Jacinto faults are strike-slip faults, which typically cause horizontal displacement.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 19 June 2026
• Geologists classify it as a right-lateral strike-slip fault capable of producing moderate to strong earthquakes, and it is considered one of the most active faults in the Bay Area.
  — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
• How the fault moves The Tintina fault is a right-lateral strike-slip fault, the same type as California's San Andreas fault, meaning the two sides of the fault grind past each other horizontally.
  — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• California’s faults, such as the Rodgers Creek and the broader San Andreas systems, involve tectonic plates grinding past each other horizontally—classified as strike-slip faults.
  — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
• But Finley stressed that while the Tintina fault extends about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), the largest strike-slip ruptures in the world rarely exceed 186 miles (300 kilometers).
  — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• The earthquake occurred on the Maacama Fault, a strike-slip fault that runs through Sonoma and Mendocino counties, according to Christie Rowe, director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and a professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
  — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026