Sentences with phrase «along the fault there»

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.

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 Boston.

Not exact matches

While a description of largely peaceful conversations gives a fairer overall impression than any division into schools or parties, there are of course divisions along various fault lines.

The Tea Partiers are a purist and fractious bunch, liable to split along ideological and personal fault lines at the drop of a hat, so perhaps there's some chance that it might.

But if there are thousands of people with nowhere to go then it isn't their fault if they end up parking along verges and across parks.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

This comes in handy if you buy goods, but don't use them for a few months or if something breaks after the six month rule and the fault was likely to have been there all along.

There I am driving along a circuit on Nascar 14 and the signal goes; the picture becomes distorted and there is nothing I can do, then I hear a crash and the picture resumes, I managed to go from 16th to last and it wasn't my fault because I lost control and smashed into a wall (doesn't sound a lot until you actually realise how difficult the gameThere I am driving along a circuit on Nascar 14 and the signal goes; the picture becomes distorted and there is nothing I can do, then I hear a crash and the picture resumes, I managed to go from 16th to last and it wasn't my fault because I lost control and smashed into a wall (doesn't sound a lot until you actually realise how difficult the gamethere is nothing I can do, then I hear a crash and the picture resumes, I managed to go from 16th to last and it wasn't my fault because I lost control and smashed into a wall (doesn't sound a lot until you actually realise how difficult the game is).

Along with the faults in the core gameplay, there are other aspects of the game that are just disappointing.

One modest example is the lack of substantial effort to retrofit or replace hundreds of schools in the state of Oregon that engineers have identified as likely or nearly certain to collapse when the next inevitable great earthquake is triggered along the region's Cascadia fault (there are struggles to prepare coastal communities for the inevitable tsunami, as well).

yeah, that's our fault too, I like to drag my dog along on the bike, and when I see a rack, make him defecate there.

TomO, afaik, there has not been an uptick in quakes along any fault associated with the New Madrid Fault (there was a quake in that zone w / in last month,) nor is it known that any affected fault areas in OK extend to New Madrid.

For decades, geologists have stated that there will be a very large earthquake in the state because there is a lot of stress building along the fault lines.