Sentences with phrase «occur along the fault»

Most aftershocks are located over the full area of fault rupture and either occurs along the fault plane itself or along other faults affected by the strain associated with the main shock.

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The Tohoku - oki earthquake occurred along a thin, clay - rich fault zone in the basal strata of the subducting plate.

Hetényi and his team found that an earthquake had occurred along one fault between 1642 and 1836, and they associated this event with the 1714 earthquake.

Most earthquakes are said to occur at subduction zones or along faults in tectonic plates.

The small quakes, which were typically magnitude 3 or 4, occurred along the entire length of the fault line, but each one occurred at the same spot every few years.

So far, scientists believe that larger earthquakes are unlikely to occur following tremors or earthquakes below a Richter scale of 2 that are caused by small vibrations or slow fault movements such as those observed in the area of Parkfield along the San Andreas Fault in California, USA.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.

The researchers analyzed 20 years of GPS data along the fault, and determined that the next large earthquake to strike the region will likely occur along a seismic gap beneath the Sea of Marmara, some five miles west of Istanbul.

In the New Madrid seismic zone, the team found that motion along the faults that are currently active has been occurring over many millions of years.

In the first study, the researchers show that the earthquake occurred on the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), the main megathrust fault along which northern India is pushing beneath Eurasia at a rate of about two centimeters per year, driving the Himalayas upward.

Elsewhere in the world, earthquakes tend to occur along active faults, like the San Andreas Fault in California, where two tectonic plates meet and push, pull, or slide against one another.

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault,... Continue Reading»

The boundary of tectonic plates along which failure occurs is called the fault plane.

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault, researchers report November 28 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

Scientists have long held the belief that the fracturing of the Earth's brittle outer shell into faults along the deep ocean's mountainous landscape occurs only during long periods when no magma has intruded.

Earthquakes Areas along fault lines are more prone to more powerful and frequent earthquakes than other areas, but earthquakes can occur almost anywhere.