Sentences with phrase «low during the earthquake»

A temperature anomaly of 0.31 °C indicates coseismic friction was extremely low during the earthquake.

The JFAST results show that the frictional stress on the shallow portion of the fault was very low during the earthquake, which means that either the stress was low to begin with or all of the stress was released during the earthquake.

«We now have four lines of evidence that frictional stress was low during the earthquake,» Brodsky said.

Not exact matches

Their results, published December 5 in Science, show that friction on the fault was remarkably low during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011 and triggered a devastating tsunami.

The low resistance to slip on the fault may help explain the large amount of slip — an unprecedented 50 meters of displacement — that occurred during the earthquake, according to UC Santa Cruz researcher Patrick Fulton, who is first author of the paper focusing on the temperature measurements.

During the period of relatively low - level geothermal operations before 1986, the rate of earthquakes in the region was also low.

The vibrations also show strong tidal triggering, with six times as many earthquakes during low tides as high tides while the volcano approached its eruption.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

Research developments have included development and implementation of performance - based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures.