The broader region is vulnerable to earthquakes from multiple sources, including
deep earthquakes within the subducted Juan de Fuca plate, offshore megathrust earthquakes on Cascadia subduction zone and the shallow crustal earthquakes within the North American Plate.
Not exact matches
In New Zealand, scientists are exploring why some faults are more prone to
earthquakes than others by studying rocks extracted from
deep within the wildly dynamic Alpine fault — the system that formed the mountains in the backdrop of The Lord of the Rings movies.
An investigation of the most powerful
earthquake ever recorded
deep within the Earth suggests
deep quakes may be better at dissipating pent - up energy than similar quakes near the surface, researchers say in a new study.
A magnitude - 8.3
earthquake that struck
deep between Russia and Japan on May 24 released most of its energy in four major shocks, all
within 30 seconds, rather than
within days or weeks
The $ 25 - million project aimed to achieve two firsts: to sample rocks from
deep inside an active fault, and to install pressure sensors, thermometers and seismometers
within a roughly 3 - kilometre -
deep borehole to catch a small
earthquake in action.
The number of
earthquakes within central and eastern United States has increased dramatically over the past few years, coinciding with increased hydraulic fracturing of horizontally drilled wells, and the injection of wastewater in
deep disposal wells in many locations, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Ohio.
By analyzing the speed of seismic waves generated by
earthquakes, scientists have shown that temperature differences
deep within Earth's mantle control the elevation and volcanic activity along mid-ocean ridges, the colossal mountain ranges that line the ocean floor.
Deep earthquakes, also called intraplate quakes, take place
within the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate (beneath Oregon and Washington) and the Gorda plate (beneath northwestern California) as they subduct beneath the North America plate.
Increased seismicity (both in the number and intensity of
earthquake occurrences) in recent months is a sign that the magma that has been accumulating for decades is rising from
deep within the earth.
Unusually, that is a rare graph not from my own art pallete, or as «Croc Dundy» would put it: «that is no art, this is art mate» http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/Sun-Earth1.htm title: Tides, Earth's core oscillations, temperature anomaly and Japan's
earthquakes As work of contemporary art here is a brief note from the -LRB-...) artist:
Deep within the Earth, is the outer core, which extends to a depth of around 3000 miles beneath the surface.