Extreme heating in a very thin zone
along the fault produces the very weak lubricant.
Not exact matches
The seismologists wanted to be sure these
faults had not been
producing this kind of tiny earthquake all
along.
The drilling itself does not cause earthquakes, but the steam removal and water return can do so, by
producing new instability
along fault or fracture lines.
The rubbing
produces waves that vibrate back and forth
along the
fault line faster than the shear speed.
The hole, near Parkfield, sits at the border between a quiet part of the
fault that creeps
along smoothly without
producing quakes and a more dangerous patch that tends to fracture under stress and
produce quakes.
Are you aware that the practice of breeding a yellow Labrador to a chocolate Labrador is avoided because it can
produce a dog lacking in pigment (a disqualifying
fault in the standard for the breed...
along with 4 other points)?
The island's volcanism is associated with the rifting
along the Azores Triple Junction; the spread of the crust
along the existing
faults and fractures has
produced many of the active volcanic and seismic events, [22] while supported by buoyant upwelling in the deeper mantle, some associate with an Azores hotspot.