Sentences with phrase «of slow earthquakes»

Now a team of researchers, led by Teh - Ru Alex Song of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, has found that an anomalous layer at the top of a subducting plate coincides with the locations of slow earthquakes and non-volcanic tremors.

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«Not because simply Haiti needs it, but we feel that it would be in the interest of both countries as Haiti is putting in motion its development plan based on the catastrophe of the Earthquake in 2010 and a set of other issues that came up along the way that has slowed down our reconstruction process.»

Huge potholes resembling Serbian mortar craters caused drivers to weave about as if under the influence of an exotic tropical drug, and the maximum speed through the former banana port was about five miles an hour, slower even than in Nancy and Jeff's earthquake - ravaged Cahuita!

Now a team led by Chichung Liu of the Academica Sinica in Taipei says these slow earthquakes can be triggered by typhoons.

Researchers have for the first time been able to measure a material's resistance to fracturing from various types of tectonic motions in Earth's middle crust, a discovery that may lead to better understanding of how large earthquakes and slower moving events interact.

Fault creep is the slip and slow release of strain in the uppermost part of the Earth's crust that occurs on some faults between large earthquakes, when much greater stress is released in only seconds.

Earth's mantle, the large zone of slow - flowing rock that lies between the crust and the planet's core, powers every earthquake and volcanic eruption on the planet's surface.

First, a basin underneath Kathmandu, filled with half a kilometer of soft sediments, amplified the shaking of taller buildings; and second, a gentle, slow onset to the earthquake's rupture limited the types of waves that would have shaken shorter buildings.

Shaking can depend significantly on factors such as the depth of the earthquake, the orientation of a fault, whether or not the fault break reaches the surface and whether the earthquake rupture is relatively faster or slower than average.

The time history of quasi-static slip along the plate interface, based on small repeating earthquakes that were part of the migrating seismicity, suggests that two sequences involved slow - slip transients propagating toward the initial rupture point.

«However, our research suggests that these blocks of rock may in fact cause the earthquake rupture to suddenly slow down.

«Until slow earthquakes were observed 10 to 15 years ago, conventional wisdom held that faults either released energy slowly and steadily by creeping, or would store tectonic stress until they failed catastrophically,» moving at a rate of about 3 feet per second, says Demian Saffer, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University.

Analysis of the 2010 earthquake also revealed that this structure played a key role in the movement of the fault, causing the rupture to suddenly slow down.

Geologists are keen to understand whether these «slow earthquakes» are merely leaks of tectonic pressure, like the hiss of air from a punctured tire, or warning signs of a more dangerous, fast - moving temblor.

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) at its Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) have discovered a way to forecast earthquakes based on slow fault movements caused by moving sub layers of Earth.

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.

It's too early to tell what effect the slow earthquakes might have on the risk of a blockbuster shakeup.

Computers in the soundproof motor room at the top of the shaft can sense sway caused by earthquakes or high winds and can slow or stop the elevator cab if necessary.

They found a total of eight such slow earthquakes in the same general vicinity.

Now, however, a team of geophysicists reports that so - called slow earthquakes stir deep below the Pacific Northwest about every 14 months.

The scientists who deployed these GPS receivers expected to see both the slow, relentless motion of the planet's shell of tectonic plates and the relatively quick movements that earthquakes and volcanoes trigger.

The silent earthquakes may then take place when a batch of fluid from the slab is working its way up — as the fluid passes, it will unclamp the fault zone a little bit, perhaps allowing some slow slip.

Previous research by Chi - Ching Liu of the Academica Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, has linked the passage of typhoons with the triggering of «slow» earthquakes.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

Some of the slow slip events occurred as far away as 300 miles from the earthquake's epicenter.

Slow slip events, a type of slow motion earthquake that occurs over days to weeks, are thought to be capable of triggering larger, potentially damaging earthquaSlow slip events, a type of slow motion earthquake that occurs over days to weeks, are thought to be capable of triggering larger, potentially damaging earthquaslow motion earthquake that occurs over days to weeks, are thought to be capable of triggering larger, potentially damaging earthquakes.

A GPS network operated by GeoNet, a partnership between GNS Science and the New Zealand Earthquake Commission, detected slow slip events hundreds of miles away beneath the North Island.

In a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin, scientists have documented the first clear - cut instance of the reverse — a massive earthquake immediately triggering a series of large slow slip events.

«The slow slip event following the Kaik?ura earthquake is the largest and most widespread episode of slow slip observed in New Zealand since these observations started in 2002,» Wallace said.

Although scientists are still in the early stages of trying to understand the relationships between slow slip events and earthquakes, Wallace said that the study results highlight additional linkages between these processes.

Bouchon says that monitoring the activity of these so - called slow earthquakes could be the key to detecting the accelerations in tectonic activity that hint at an impending catastrophic quake.

A new University of Washington study finds that the same technique can be used to detect gradual movement of tectonic plates, what are called «slow slip» earthquakes.

«Once we are able to put instruments close to the plate interface, below the sea, I believe we will see that many earthquakes are preceded by a phase of slow slip.»

Discovered in the early 2000s, slow slips are a type of silent earthquake in which two plates slip harmlessly past one another over weeks or months.

Giant earthquakes, says Okal, tend to put much of their extra energy into slower, long - period vibrations, rather than adding to the strength of the 1 - hertz - frequency vibrations most effective at knocking down walls.

Saturday's terrible earthquake was the latest result of an ongoing collision of giant pieces of our planet, a slow - moving disaster that started about 50 million years ago.

This project will enable the study processes of slow deformation, a signature of the accumulation of energy in active geologic systems that can be released during major earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

Slow earthquakes, also called silent earthquakes, take days, weeks, or even months to release pent - up energy instead of seconds or minutes as in normal earthquakes.

They found that slow earthquake areas and the ultra-slow-velocity layers cluster together, and that regions of non-volcanic tremors are adjacent to those clusters.

The elemental forces he'll put into concert are declared within the first eight minutes, and the remainder of the film documents something like the effects of a slow, quiet, yet massive earthquake.

The noteworthy increase in 2012 fuel economy is partially attributed to the recovery of Japanese automakers from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, whose production was slowed down by supplier delays stemming from the disaster.

Today marks the one - year anniversary of the devastating, 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti, and as many news sources have noted, the recovery is slow.

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The fair's focus on Africa is indicative of the art world's gradual shift — slow enough to be tectonic — over the last few decades, one that culminated in the earthquake that was Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor's Venice Biennale in 2015.

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1) tectonics — earthquakes and slow seismic events 2) erosion / sedimentation 3) isostatic rebound — response to a change in surface load (such as the removal of an ice sheet or deposition or removal of sediment)