Sentences with phrase «between slow earthquakes»

But another study by researchers in the United States and Taiwan found a similar association between slow earthquakes — which take places over hours or even days — and tropical cyclones in Taiwan.

Not exact matches

The rumbling upheaval in relationships between the sexes is much like a slow - motion earthquake.

Unlike slow slips events, earthquakes — or stick - slip events — occur when surfaces quickly alternate between sticking to each other and sliding over each other.

Fault creep is the slip and slow release of strain in the uppermost part of the Earth's crust that occurs on some faults between large earthquakes, when much greater stress is released in only seconds.

Earth's mantle, the large zone of slow - flowing rock that lies between the crust and the planet's core, powers every earthquake and volcanic eruption on the planet's surface.

But the CWU team points out that many slow temblors may take place in the 500 or so years between great quakes; this makes it unlikely that any single slow earthquake is going to be a meaningful precursor.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

A GPS network operated by GeoNet, a partnership between GNS Science and the New Zealand Earthquake Commission, detected slow slip events hundreds of miles away beneath the North Island.

Although scientists are still in the early stages of trying to understand the relationships between slow slip events and earthquakes, Wallace said that the study results highlight additional linkages between these processes.