Fig. 8: The width of the cataclastic band and the sharpness of faults tend to decrease moving from normal faults (NF), strike-slip (SS), to thrust faults (TF).
From: The impact of faulting complexity and type on earthquake rupture dynamics
a, b, c: three examples from the Mesozoic carbonate rocks of the central Apennines (a) and the Dolomites in the eastern Alps (b, c) in central and northern Italy. d: Thrusts are generally associated with sharper, continuous faults with respect to strike-slip and normal faults, rather characterized by multiple and anastomosed faults and generating wider cataclastic damage zones. This structural variation could explain why the coseismic slip along thrust faults shows in average higher double couple.
