Sentences with phrase «lot of aftershocks»
As with all major quakes, the New Madrid quakes spawned a lot of aftershocks, says Morgan Page, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Pasadena, California.
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«Most big sequences of earthquakes that we see are either a main shock and a lot of aftershocks or it might be right at the middle of a volcano in a volcanic system or geothermal system.
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A comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes.