Sentences with phrase «occur along the boundaries»

They occur along the boundaries of tectonic plates along the submarine volcanic chains.

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The map shows that, so far, almost all of the aftershocks have occurred along the subduction zone that lies on the boundary of the Pacific plate.
The geographical pattern of expansion varied from season to season, with the most notable differences occurring along the Sahara's northern and southern boundaries.
But Tuesday's temblor occurred along a stretch of tectonic boundary that hadn't slipped to produce a major quake in nearly 150 years.
That's because the 1877 event followed another magnitude - 8.8 quake that occurred just to the north along the same tectonic boundary in 1868.
[6][7] Massive earthquakes tend to occur along other plate boundaries, too, such as along the Himalayan Mountains.
The boundary of tectonic plates along which failure occurs is called the fault plane.
So it seems to me that the simple way of communicating a complex problem has led to several fallacies becoming fixed in the discussions of the real problem; (1) the Earth is a black body, (2) with no materials either surrounding the systems or in the systems, (3) in radiative energy transport equilibrium, (4) response is chaotic solely based on extremely rough appeal to temporal - based chaotic response, (5) but at the same time exhibits trends, (6) but at the same time averages of chaotic response are not chaotic, (7) the mathematical model is a boundary value problem yet it is solved in the time domain, (8) absolutely all that matters is the incoming radiative energy at the TOA and the outgoing radiative energy at the Earth's surface, (9) all the physical phenomena and processes that are occurring between the TOA and the surface along with all the materials within the subsystems can be ignored, (10) including all other activities of human kind save for our contributions of CO2 to the atmosphere, (11) neglecting to mention that if these were true there would be no problem yet we continue to expend time and money working on the problem.
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