Sentences with phrase «how deep the earthquakes»

The team also analyzed how deep the earthquakes occur underground and concluded that as quakes occur deeper, the rocks become stronger and the stress drop, or force behind the earthquakes, becomes more powerful.

It was Green's laboratory that first conducted a serendipitous series of experiments, in 1989, on the right kind of mantle rocks that give geologists insight into how deep earthquakes work.

Not exact matches

Based on his graduate work at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, the work published in Science reports that the potential magnitude of deep earthquakes in the central Puget Sound region is determined by just how deep they are.

«It also can help scientists model and predict future earthquake and volcanic hazards, where they might occur and how deep the devastation might be depending on what the models show.»

One test for telling the difference between an earthquake and an explosion is how deep it is.

New research shows how human activity deep underground combines with natural earthquakes far away to set off potent local temblors

Although this region is far too deep for researchers to ever observe directly, instruments that can measure the propagation of seismic waves caused by earthquakes allow them to visualize changes in Earth's interior structure; similar to how ultrasound measurements let medical professionals look inside of our bodies.

Moved by our deep concern about the earthquake threat hanging over Nepal like a Damocles sword, Philippe Rosset and I prepared a proposal, together with our Nepalese colleague, D. Chamlagain, to give our loss estimating tool, QLARM [link], to our Nepalese colleagues pro bono, and teach them how to use it.

This time she shows how Leftists falsely claim that fracking is a significant cause of earthquakes, when in fact science has shown that the problem is oversaturation due to reinjection of produced water into deep wells.