Fault Movement
Fault Movement : Sense of motion along a fault which separates two adjacent crustal blocks. One speaks of normal faulting, if the block overlaying the other block along an inclined fault plane is downthrown, and of reverse or thrust faulting, if the overlaying block is overriding the block underneath or the underlaying block is thrusted/subducted underneath the overriding block, respectively. See: Subduction Thrust Fault. in the case of a steeply dipping fault plane and more or less horizontal, i.e., strike-slip block movement, one discriminates between left-lateral and right-lateral strike-slip movements. Left-lateral means that if you were to stand on the fault and look along its length, that the left block moves towards you, whereas in the case of rightlateral movement the block on your right side moves towards you
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