Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system

The Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system is a system of geologic faults in Houston, Texas. It runs beneath the metropolitan area from the southwest to the northeast. The various faults are characterized as normal faults, meaning that the downthrown side is in the direction of the dip of the fault plane. This fault system as well as others located in nearby parts of Texas are believed to have formed millions of years ago during the formation of the Gulf of Mexico. No significant earthquakes have occurred on these faults in historic times, but slow movement has been observed.

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View is SW at Long Point Road and Lynnview. Upthrown side of the Long Point Fault is to the right. Fault passes to the left of the kiosk.	View is NW at Long Point Road and Lynnview. Long Point Fault passes left-right across the photo center.	View is east on Memorial Drive at W. Forest. Approaching cars are on the downthrown side of the Long Point Fault.

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Significant seismically active faults of North America

North America
(crosses national borders)

Alaska-Aleutian megathrust (US-RU)
Basin and Range Province (US-MX)
Cascadia subduction zone (US-CA)
Clarendon-Linden fault system (US-CA)
Denali Fault (US-CA)
Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province (CA-US)
Puget Sound faults (US-CA)
Rio Grande rift (US-MX)
San Andreas Fault (US-MX)
Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone (US-CA)
Tintina Fault (US-CA)

Canada

United States

Washington and Oregon	Brothers Fault Zone Olympic-Wallowa Lineament Puget Sound (Seattle Fault, Tacoma Fault) Walker Lane

California	Calaveras Fault Garlock Fault Hayward Fault Zone Mendocino Fracture Zone Newport–Inglewood Fault Puente Hills Fault Rose Canyon Fault San Jacinto Fault Zone (Elsinore Fault Zone)

Great Basin	Independence Valley fault system Moab Fault Teton Fault Wasatch Fault

Great Plains	Central Oklahoma Fault Zone Humboldt Fault Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system Nemaha Fault Zone Wilzetta Fault

Midwest	Marianna Fault New Madrid Seismic Zone Sandwich Fault Zone Wabash Valley Seismic Zone

Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Coast	Aiken-Augusta Fault Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone Middleton Place-Summerville Seismic Zone (Woodstock Fault) Northern Appalachians Seismic Zone Ramapo Fault Virginia Seismic Zone

Caribbean & Mexico

Cayman Trough
Chixoy-Polochic Fault
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (Cuba)
Gulf of California Rift Zone
Lesser Antilles subduction zone
Middle America Trench (Central America)
Motagua Fault (Central America)
Pedro Miguel Fault
Puerto Rico Trench

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