Sentences with phrase «ground along the faults»

By cutting vertical trenches into the ground along the faults, Rockwell and his colleagues were able to see signs of previous quakes from the exposed cross-sections of earth and rock.

Not exact matches

In this study, Tramelli and her colleagues used the recorded waveforms from the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence to simulate a seismic sequence that triggered end - to - end earthquakes along adjacent fault patches, observing the affect of continuous ruptures on the resulting ground motion and, consequently, its impact on critical structures, such as dams, power plants, hospitals and bridges.
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.
The group took data along the fault from about 100 GPS locations, including stations where data are collected continuously and sites where instruments are episodically set up over small markers on the ground, the positions of which can be recorded over time as the Earth slowly shifts.
The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.
Washington is a «no - fault» divorce state, meaning that the only legal ground for divorce is the «irretrievable breakdown» of the marriage, which simply put is that you and your spouse can not get along with each other anymore.
In states where the only no - fault ground available is a lengthy separation, you can hasten your divorce along if you cite fault grounds instead.
New Jersey's no - fault ground is irreconcilable differences, so you can simply state that you and your spouse haven't been getting along for at least the last six months.
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