Sentences with phrase «generating powerful earthquakes»

The evidence amassed since then suggests that in fact, Cascadia has generated powerful earthquakes not just once or twice, but over and over again throughout geologic time.

Not exact matches

However, the commission points out that some historical earthquakes in central Italy did go on to generate powerful aftershocks.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

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».

«Our experiments show that glacial earthquakes can generate far more powerful tsunamis than undersea earthquakes with similar magnitude,» said Song.