Sentences with phrase «frequent small earthquakes»

Frequent small earthquakes are still recorded in the New Madrid seismic zone, which is believed to hold the potential for larger earthquakes in the future.

Not exact matches

Indian science minister Ashwani Kumar announced last week that the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad will launch a $ 75 - million, 30 - month - long project to drill an 8 - kilometer - deep borehole in Koyna, a region in western India that experiences frequent small - to moderately - sized earthquakes.

Afterwards, seismic activity around Japan's capital spiked, and small earthquakes are now three times as frequent as they were before the 2011 event.

For instance, their data could be used to explore whether locked patches of the fault separately host magnitude 6 or smaller earthquakes, and if larger, less frequent earthquakes might rupture across patches.

Greenland ice stream acceleration: e.g., Rignot and Kanagaratnam (2006), also, small earthquakes in Greenland, caused by sliding glaciers, had become twice as frequent: Ekström et al. (2006).