Sentences with phrase «slip along the fault»

Slip along the fault there, under the higher temperatures and pressures found deeper in the crust, takes on a different character: Ruptures are more plastic than brittle.

As new oceanic crust is made in the spreading centers (the story went), it cools, fractures, and slips along faults, creating downward - dropped blocks that could be responsible for the ridge - and - valley topography.

«This motion includes a component of slip along the fault and a component of normal motion against the fault that creates mountains.

Not exact matches

Friction along the fault locks the plates together until enough strain builds up to cause the plates to slip, unleashing an earthquake.

They found that the fault slipped by up to 19 metres along a segment north of the epicentre, close to the city of Constitución.

What they were searching for are signs, like those seen along the San Andreas, that indicate how much the faults have slipped over time and whether some of that slippage caused some of the seafloor to thrust upwards.

But if silent slip has been relieving stress along these faults without scientists realizing it, then the degree of danger may actually be less than they think.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

The study tests the method on more than 200 GPS stations that recorded slow slips between 2005 and 2016 along the Cascadia fault zone, which runs from northern California up to northern Vancouver Island.

In Cascadia the slipping runs backward from the typical motion along the fault.

In some cases, rather than slipping, the two sides along a fault rub together, which can cause a destructive, high - speed quake.

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault,... Continue Reading»

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault, researchers report November 28 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

The subducting plates do not slip continuously; instead, the plates are stuck together along the upper portion of the subduction fault, which is referred to as «locked zone.»

The scientists found substantial increases along the surrounding strike - slip faults, in which abutting plates in the earth's crust — as in the San Andreas fault — get stuck and can generate destructive shaking when they lurch free.