Sentences with phrase «along faults in»

3He also escapes to the earth's surface along faults in the crust, so the amount of 3He varies widely at different locations.

In their report released in 2016, the Working Group on Utah Earthquake Probabilities, established by the Utah Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, presented their first forecast for large earthquakes along faults in the Wasatch region, running roughly from Nephi, Utah north to the Utah - Idaho border.

Most earthquakes are said to occur at subduction zones or along faults in tectonic plates.

They conclude that there have been at least three major quakes along the faults in the past 1400 years, the most recent being a large tremor along the Pedro Miguel fault in 1621.

There are areas along the fault in western Nepal that are known to be locked and have not experienced a major earthquake since a big one (larger than magnitude 8.5) in 1505.

Not exact matches

An apocalyptically - worded story in the latest issue of the New Yorker detailed the devastation that might result from a high - magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that runs from Cape Mendocino, Calif., to Vancouver Island, Canada.

In the meantime, correctly predicting when the next hike will take place will require paying close attention to global financial conditions along with domestic economic fault lines.

This is not entirely, but in a large way, imho, Bush # 2's fault along with most of his administration.

One can think of these cultural definitions as fissures which, when subjected to stress, become major fault lines along which changes in religion take place.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Along with no - fault divorce, this disorients lower - and middle - class Americans, contributing to a decline in marriage.

The Democrat believes that Obama is the Messiah, that they along with Obama are incapable of being wrong or making a mistake (drive in the ultra blue, they slam into your lane running you off the road and look at you as if it is your fault - or just watch «dem on Jersey Shore and shows like that).

We refer to it as Spaghetti Bolognese in our house, and before someone writes to inform me that this is not an authentic bolognese sauce, I'll save you the time and announce it right here: This is not an authentic bolognese sauce — but it's our version, and somewhere along the way it was assigned the name «bolognese» (probably my fault) and since then it's stuck.

Hi Karlie — totally my fault — the sponge mixture should be added to the dry dough ingredients along with the wet ingredients (in the «make the dough» step).

3 League titles / 6 Fa cups and constant champions league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers fault!

And people in unhappy or abusive marriages couldn't easily divorce, either, until no - fault divorce came along.

Horner's group, along with Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, are also finding fault with the Assembly's plan, which they say has as many holes in it as «Swiss cheese.»

This can be done through analysing different positions taken along key fault lines in Labour's ethos.

The Tohoku - oki earthquake occurred along a thin, clay - rich fault zone in the basal strata of the subducting plate.

Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, studied 1126 quakes that happened along the Sumatran fault, where the Eurasian plate slides below the Indo - Australian plate, between 1976 and 2008.

In this interpretation, the silence along the fault was merely an ominous pause.

A research team led by Chris Goldfinger at Oregon State University (OSU) used core samples from the ocean floor along the fault to establish that there have been at least 41 Cascadia events in the last ten thousand years.

«There hasn't been activity along these faults for 300 million years,» says Beatrice Magnani, a seismologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and lead author of a paper describing the research, published today in Science Advances.

Along this fault, the Indian subcontinent is being forced down underneath Asia, and the collision is the force pushing up the tallest mountain range in the world.

On the other hand, if the two plates were stuck together by friction, strain would build up in the rocks and the upper plate would bend down along the outer edge and thicken inland, humping upward until the rocks along the fault failed.

The findings, reported April 18 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), suggest that there can be a range of afterslip durations along faults, making it more challenging to predict how post-earthquake movements might damage nearby infrastructure for years after a major earthquake.

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.

Troy, Jericho, Knossos, Mycenae, Armageddon, Teotihuacán and Petra, he argues, were all located along fault lines or in regions prone to earthquakes.

«How friction evolves during an earthquake: By simulating quakes in a lab, engineers study the way that friction changes along a fault during a seismic event.»

«This was an event the thrust interface of the plate boundary system, confirming that there is a subduction system in the Haida Gwaii area,» said Honn Kao, seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, who, along with his colleagues, examined the source parameters — causative faults, rupture processes and depths — of the mainshock and sequence of strong aftershocks.

A «broader and modern approach» to seismic risk mitigation in Italy, suggest the authors, would incorporate the scenario of multiple triggered quakes, along with the present understanding of active fault locations, mechanisms and interaction.

Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

In this study, Tramelli and her colleagues used the recorded waveforms from the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence to simulate a seismic sequence that triggered end - to - end earthquakes along adjacent fault patches, observing the affect of continuous ruptures on the resulting ground motion and, consequently, its impact on critical structures, such as dams, power plants, hospitals and bridges.

Rock movement along the Denali fault drives the uplift of the mountains, which form at bends in the fault, where previously fractured suture - zone rocks are pinned against the stronger former North American continental margin.

In Alaska, the shape of the accreted terranes generally controls the location of the Denali fault and the mountains that form along it, especially at the bends in the trace of the faulIn Alaska, the shape of the accreted terranes generally controls the location of the Denali fault and the mountains that form along it, especially at the bends in the trace of the faulin the trace of the fault.

By combining older seafloor data and digital seismic data from earthquakes along with 4,500 kilometers (2,796 miles) of new seafloor depth measurements, or bathymetry, collected in 2010, Legg and his colleagues were able to take a closer look at the structure of two of the larger seafloor faults in the Borderland: the Santa Cruz - Catalina Ridge Fault and the Ferrelo Fault.

So far, scientists believe that larger earthquakes are unlikely to occur following tremors or earthquakes below a Richter scale of 2 that are caused by small vibrations or slow fault movements such as those observed in the area of Parkfield along the San Andreas Fault in California, USA.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.

Knowing that clay - rich rocks can release tectonic energy in a controlled way could explain how a fault might creep along, he says, and might help scientists predict a fault's next move.

The record indicates that 11 tsunamis were generated during that period by earthquakes along the Sunda Megathrust, the 3,300 - mile - long fault running from Myanmar to Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.

Extreme heating in a very thin zone along the fault produces the very weak lubricant.

In 1811 three powerful quakes in a row — measuring approximately 7.5 to 8.3 on the Richter scale — ripped along the fault there, ringing church bells as far away as BostoIn 1811 three powerful quakes in a row — measuring approximately 7.5 to 8.3 on the Richter scale — ripped along the fault there, ringing church bells as far away as Bostoin a row — measuring approximately 7.5 to 8.3 on the Richter scale — ripped along the fault there, ringing church bells as far away as Boston.

Most typical earthquakes happen along faults that have built - in brakes: motion stops once the stress is relieved between the two chunks of earth that are trying to move past each other.

In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, investigators have observed many silent earthquakes along the enormous Cascadia fault zone between the North American plate and the subducting Juan de Fuca plate.

We hope that this new finding will promote the mapping and discovery of such faults along active subduction margins and will also help explain the variability in the recurrence of great - earthquakes encountered on many subductions globally.»

A major challenge is to determine how geothermal and magmatic fluids are distributed and stored in the subsurface of Aluto and how they ascend along the mapped fault zones.»

In the Fort Worth Basin, along faults that are currently seismically active, there is no evidence of prior motion over the past (approximately) 300 million years.

Researchers gained new insight into how earthquakes can interact from a magnitude 7.9 quake along Alaska's Denali Fault in November 2002 that involved a chain reaction of fault shaking.

In the New Madrid seismic zone, the team found that motion along the faults that are currently active has been occurring over many millions of years.