Sentences with phrase «along major fault»

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.

Kuyuk and Allen estimate 10 km is the ideal distance between seismic stations in areas along major faults or near major cities.

Not exact matches

The Greenbushes pegmatite deposit intrudes along a major northwest regional fault zone.

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.

For decades I was under the impression that a major theological difference between Jews and Christians ran along this fault line.

And while the two groups aren't anything like formal alliances, the economic interests within each group are more closely aligned than those across the divide, and hence it's easy to imagine the major disagreements about how to manage the European economy over the coming years falling more or less along this fault line.

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.

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.

Were shallow earthquakes to slide by the grinding and crunching of rock, as geologists once imagined, the process would generate enough heat so that major faults like the San Andreas would be a little warmer along their length than they would be otherwise.

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

«A major quake along the Seattle fault is among the worst case scenarios for the area since the fault runs just south of downtown.

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.»

Between 1939 and 1999 Turkey's major earthquakes were marching westward along the north Anatolian fault, prompting fears that Istanbul — which lies near the fault — would eventually shake.

To make matters downright scary, a major earthquake along one of the fault lines that crisscross the region could wipe out freshwater supplies to millions of people.

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.

A major earthquake along California's San Andreas fault has a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) using his professional skills for personal reasons.

This week, SEPA, the State Environmental Protection Administration, announced it had launched investigations into the chemical company at fault along with five other major polluters.

At a time when the government trying to push through major changes to the funding of claims by people injured through no fault of their own — which will impoverish the public purse and boost the already bloated profits of insurers — it confirms what we have said all along: the government has no real grasp of the figures or data.