Sentences with phrase «magnitude of an earthquake»

It is important to note that the new model only predicts the maximum possible magnitude of an earthquake rather than what the earthquake magnitude will actually be, the researchers say.

«We tested each mechanism,» Tingay says, «and we show that the order of magnitude of the earthquake was too small to cause it.

New technologies allow us to study our region from space, to map the adjacent ocean floor, to look deeply into the Earth's interior, and to pinpoint the location and magnitude of earthquakes with great precision.

«This is an important finding because some previously held theories propose that there is a relationship between the largest magnitude of the earthquake and the injected volume, but what we have found is that the maximum magnitude isn't what's being controlled by the volume, it's the earthquake rate,» says Atkinson, who notes that these two theories are slightly related because the more earthquakes that are induced provide more opportunities for a larger one to occur.

Scientists know that it will happen again, we know the possible magnitude of the earthquakes to come, and we know that those magnitudes are greater than 7.

The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the earthquakes in relation to each other.

Like all earthquake early warning systems, SASMEX uses algorithms to process incoming seismic waves from earthquakes to determine the magnitude of the earthquake.

For the first time, the new study shows that the rate at which tectonic plates collide controls the magnitude of earthquakes in mountainous regions.

«Understanding the physical parameters behind the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes is important to improve the seismic hazard assessment.

Whereas prosecutors argue that it is not, an open letter sent last year to Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, and signed by more than 5,000 members of the scientific community claims that the defendants are being persecuted for failing to do the impossible — predict the time, place and magnitude of an earthquake.

Once the P waves register on a bank of 400 seismometers around the state that are maintained by ShakeAlert's partner institutions, the raw data is instantly transmitted to a suite of central software that processes it using three algorithmic calculations: The first, known as ElarmS, collects data from multiple seismometers and calculates the location and magnitude of the earthquake.

The magnitude of these earthquakes at Loma Blanca has been estimated to be between 6.2 and 6.9, by analogy with more recent events.

Because the magnitude of an earthquake is directly related to the length of the fault it ruptures, the New Zealand quake was much larger than it would have been had it not jumped the gaps.

Remember, this is not the magnitude of the earthquake where you were.

brings This activity illustrates how seismic waves are used to determine the magnitude of an earthquake and to locate its epicenter.