Sentences with phrase «less ground movement»

Today new, automated methods of tunneling create much less ground movement.

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USGS scientists have found that ground movements from induced quakes are stronger just above the epicenter but less so away from the immediate area, possibly because they tend to be shallower than natural ones.
However, the current data obtained suggests the opposite: an earthquake with an epicenter at the gates of the city, which would allow the people only very little time to find protection, but which would trigger less powerful ground movements.
If the intensity of the movement is high enough and the transition on the ground (amortization phase) is fast enough (0.2 seconds or less), it's a true plyometric.
It feels much more settled than the BMW and less prone to being pushed around — that could be a function of it carrying 10 or 20 per cent less «ground speed» — but the body movements and the responses of the chassis are lazier.
At slow speeds the tires stay on the ground — where the best traction is — longer and at higher speeds more movement relative the body means less movement transmitted through the truck and seat to your backside.
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