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Relative movement parallel to bedding during folding, allowing layers at different radii of curvature to accommodate different arc lengths. For two layer surfaces separated by thickness $h$ through bend angle $\theta$, their arc-length difference is approximately $h\theta$. Bedding-parallel slip can accommodate that mismatch without requiring each layer to stretch by the same amount. Shallow flexural slip can produce surface breaks above a blind reverse fault.

A blind reverse fault can shorten and bend its cover into a fault-propagation fold or other growing anticline. At the fold crest, bending can create shallow extension and secondary normal faults or tension fissures, even though the regional deformation is shortening. Bedding-parallel flexural slip, local backthrusts and fold scarps can also break the surface.

Thus a shallow surface break need not be the upward continuation of the main seismogenic thrust fault. The expected association is distributed deformation related to the uplifted fold; its detailed pattern depends on cover layering, fold geometry and shallow strength. The broad frontal relief in Attachment A is compatible with this possibility, but the image alone does not establish a unique earthquake rupture history.