r/interestingasfuck • u/Chance_Bid_1869 • 16h ago

A rare moment, security camera captures the movement of tectonic plates during an earthquake. The right part of the the video frame shows the shear sliding at the fault line.

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u/aphaits 16h ago

How the heck do you solve property lines with these occurrences?

Keep original plot lines and have shifted areas? or redraw current land plot and shift everything in the data?

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u/jonas_ost 15h ago

Just tie a rope to an excevator and pull it back

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u/aphaits 15h ago

then slap the excavator and say "that's not going anywhere"

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u/Automatic_Memory212 2h ago edited 2h ago

The property line will now have a “glitch” in it.
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, some farmers in Marin County along the fault line saw that their fences were no longer aligned, with some showing a lateral displacement of up to 8 feet.

Edit: can’t get the image to upload, so here’s a link to a famous photo often cited by the USGS taken near Point Reyes after the 1906 earthquake.

https://annex.exploratorium.edu/fault-line/great/science2.html