Sentences with phrase «along faults where»

Large earthquakes happen mostly along faults where tectonic plates meet as they move over the planet's surface.

Not exact matches

The economic Battle Mountain — Cortez — Eureka Trend gold deposits were deposited as mineralized hydrothermal sedimentary - host replacement horizons and breccia zones along major fault structural zones where alteration and anomalous gold - silver - arsenic - antimony - thallium mineralization are present.

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.

They think they know why the fault is located where it is and what accounts for the alternating asymmetrical, mountain - scale topography along the fault.

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.

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.

The ruptured fault is not along the tectonic plate boundaries where major quakes are expected.

The group took data along the fault from about 100 GPS locations, including stations where data are collected continuously and sites where instruments are episodically set up over small markers on the ground, the positions of which can be recorded over time as the Earth slowly shifts.

GPS is being used to create a detailed and comprehensive portrait of nearly all Earth's dynamic surfaces, including the zones where tectonic plates meet, the slippage along earthquake faults, and the movement of glaciers.

Elsewhere in the world, earthquakes tend to occur along active faults, like the San Andreas Fault in California, where two tectonic plates meet and push, pull, or slide against one another.

It's notable, in an unnerving way, that the 1700 earthquake off the Northwest Coast was most precisely recorded in in Japan, where villages along the same coasts now reeling from last week's monumental disaster registered a tsunami generated by the heaving of the Cascadia fault on the far side of the Pacific.

In a paper calculating new Chinese earthquake risks in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Japanese and American geophysicists analyzed shifts in stress along several faults around the area where a magnitude 7.9 temblor killed nearly 70,000 people and drew rare citizen protests because so many schools crumbled.

In states where the only no - fault ground available is a lengthy separation, you can hasten your divorce along if you cite fault grounds instead.