Sentences with phrase «cluster of earthquakes»

«As a result, a cluster of earthquakes occurs,» he said.

The Science paper, released in July 2014, tied four high - volume injection wells to a cluster of earthquakes in Jones, just west of Prague.

In recent years, several new clusters of earthquakes (red dots) have occurred in the southern Delaware Basin, near the town of Fort Stockton, and another cluster has occurred near Midland.

For example, a clustering of earthquakes, the largest with magnitude between 8.0 and 8.5, hit off the coast of Crete in 365 AD.

Not exact matches

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

A cluster of low - magnitude earthquakes in the New York region has piqued the interest of residents, while some geologists predict the increase in temblors will continue and a large - scale one could be coming.

Earthquakes do tend to cluster, though, meaning any tremors raise the likelihood of imminent seismic events by a factor of a hundred or even a thousand.

To understand what makes an earthquake stop, it's important to understand what makes it go: the release of energy stored in rocks clustered around a fault, which separates masses of the earth's crust known as tectonic plates.

Lurking clusters of seismic energy could explain why large earthquakes have occurred where we least expected them

The type of damage sustained by temples clustered around two towns in the region — Chamba and Bharmour — suggests that the Chamba temples may have been affected by the 1555 earthquake, while the Bharmour temples were damaged by the 1905 quake, the seismologists conclude.

Asked what's new with these findings Vasiliki Mouslopoulou explains: «For the first time temporal clustering of great - earthquakes is shown on active subduction margins, indicating an intense period of strain release due to successive earthquakes, followed by long periods of seismic quiescence.»

Instead, they reflect a propensity for natural temporal variations in uplift rates where recent (not more than 10,000 years ago) uplift has been greatest due to temporal clustering of large - magnitude (bigger than M7) earthquakes on upper - plate faults.

Further, it alerts scientists that earthquake clustering may not only characterise shallow faulting and smaller - sized earthquakes with magnitudes lower than M7 but it is a property of large subduction earthquakes.

Such earthquake swarms typically are associated with the movement of molten rock below ground, which geologists credited for the recent quake cluster at Yellowstone National Park, or they are linked to an active fault, he said on Tuesday.

The team also showed that calcite associated with two seismic events in the earthquake cluster indicates very rapid carbon dioxide degassing, which can occur when fluid under high pressure is released — like opening the top of a shaken bottle of soda.

«Fortunately, these catastrophic earthquakes don't happen frequently, but we can input these site specific characteristics into computer models — such as those made possible with the CEES cluster — in the hopes of identifying acoustic signatures that indicates whether or not an earthquake has generated a large tsunami.»

Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered around fracking operations.

A new study of the Jones earthquake swarm, occurring near Oklahoma City since 2008, demonstrates that a small cluster of high - volume injection wells triggered earthquakes tens of kilometers away.

Earthquakes are initiated by the release of energy stored in rocks clustered around a fault, which separates masses of Earth's crust known as tectonic plates.

The model shows that clusters can occur on faults with long - term memory, so that even after a big earthquake happens, the chance of another earthquake can stay high.

They found that slow earthquake areas and the ultra-slow-velocity layers cluster together, and that regions of non-volcanic tremors are adjacent to those clusters.

As a part of this investigation's support materials, the teacher guide demonstrates methods for identification of plate boundary areas by locating earthquake epicenter clusters on the Web GIS (Figure 4).

As soon as I heard about the 5.6 - magnitude earthquake amid a cluster of recent lesser tremors in Oklahoma, I figured the potential relationship of some earthquakes to drilling would emerge.