Sentences with phrase «detect small earthquakes»

«We were able to detect small earthquakes and locate them very accurately, and see that they were active while the volcano was inflating.»

Not exact matches

Such changes — whether caused by global warming or earthquakes — remain too small to be reliably detected at present, Gross says.

It came as some surprise when these instruments detected small ground movements that were not associated with any known earthquake or eruption.

ElarmS is designed to detect earthquakes small and large, because «only if it works for small magnitude events can we be sure the system is operational,» Allen says.

First detected by networks monitoring seismic activity in 1998, the tiny ripples were initially chalked up to the many small earthquakes that occur each day around the world.

In the latest research the researchers used data from previous fracking operations to measure the distance between the furthest detected microseismic event — a small earthquake caused by hydraulic fracturing of the rock or fault reactivation — and the injection point in the fracking borehole.

Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes are small, but MyShake users in the state, which number only about 200, easily detected the Sept. 3 magnitude 5.8 quake, the strongest ever to hit the state.

By the way, these «earthquakes» are extremely small and hard to detect since they have less than 10,000 times the energy of the smallest earthquakes that can be felt by humans.