Sentences with phrase «generated by an earthquake»

By recording seismic waves generated by earthquakes, they were able to look deep inside the earth and create images of the mantle's flow, similar to the way a doctor images a broken bone.

In the months after the Northridge disaster, engineers began to find cracks in the welds joining the columns and beams together — in the very connections designed to enable the structural frames to absorb the energy generated by an earthquake without toppling over.

A team of European researchers have developed a model to simulate the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the Eastern Mediterranean.

The equipment was used to measure the velocity and direction of different sound waves generated by earthquakes as they traveled under Sierra Negra.

Tsunamis are mainly generated by earthquakes.

Using advanced modeling and simulation, seismic data generated by earthquakes, and one of the world's fastest supercomputers, a team led by Jeroen Tromp of Princeton University is creating a detailed 3 - D picture of Earth's interior.

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.

Similarly, they use seismic signals generated by an earthquake to determine the earthquake's location and intensity.

However, just as seismology uses waves generated by earthquakes to reveal the interior structure of the Earth, the discipline of helioseismology makes use of pressure waves traversing the Sun's interior to measure and visualize the Sun's inner structure.

Dixon added that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, generated by an earthquake on a similar fault to the one that produced Japan's great earthquake, should have been a prod to Japanese officials and utilities to reexamine their plans and systems:

Not exact matches

Mexico City fast became one of the best - studied earthquake zones in the world and scientists now know that buildings of these heights reacted to the particular frequency generated by the shake - amplifying landfill.

The array listens for the echoes of seismic waves — generated by distant earthquakes or small explosions detonated nearby — as they bounce off subsurface structure.

Seismologists can distinguish ice - quakes from tectonic earthquakes by location and the unique shape of the waveforms they generate.

The record indicates that 11 tsunamis were generated during that period by earthquakes along the Sunda Megathrust, the 3,300 - mile - long fault running from Myanmar to Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.

Were shallow earthquakes to slide by the grinding and crunching of rock, as geologists once imagined, the process would generate enough heat so that major faults like the San Andreas would be a little warmer along their length than they would be otherwise.

Seismic waves can be generated naturally, during earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, for example, or by artificial means such as explosions.

Infrasonic waves, with frequencies much lower than an audible voice, can be generated by sources as diverse as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocket launches and meteor air blasts.

However, the size of the waves generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March that year led to sea defences and other coastal structures being overwhelmed, and in many cases completely or partially destroyed.

«We simulate tsunami generation by introducing earthquake - generated displacements at either the sea bed or the surface,» explains Samaras.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake generated by the researchers» models along the Pitas Point and Red Mountain faults results in the following scenario:

For the purpose of this study, a team of geologists from the Nanjing University, China, and the University of Illinois studied the echoes generated by seismic waves produced during earthquakes to scan below the surface of Earth, much like an ultrasound is used to see inside patients.

In the GT R, full throttle acceleration maneuvers are accompanied by rolling acoustic earthquakes that come and go in waves — accentuated by fake heeling and toeing throttle blips and chip - generated lift - off backfires.

It's notable, in an unnerving way, that the 1700 earthquake off the Northwest Coast was most precisely recorded in in Japan, where villages along the same coasts now reeling from last week's monumental disaster registered a tsunami generated by the heaving of the Cascadia fault on the far side of the Pacific.

[UPDATE: Here's a video explaining how subduction faults generate such potent earthquakes and tsunamis, created by Steven Ward, a geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz:]

Yumei Wang, whose analysis of earthquake risk and preparations in that state has been a focus here for several years, was in Hawaii last week when the waves generated by Japan's potent earthquake set off warnings there.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

Although these sudden forming clouds are caused by powerful transient energy in the crust — and the transient energy is a true genesis process to earthquakes, not all transient series generate the «traditional earthquake».

As longtime readers here know, Oregon will inevitably be struck by a potent earthquake generated along the Cascadia subduction fault offshore.

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