Sentences with phrase «other deep earthquakes»

It involved shear faulting with a fast rupture velocity of about 4 kilometers per second (about 9,000 miles per hour), more like a conventional earthquake near the surface than other deep earthquakes.

Not exact matches

When ancient geologic forces failed to rip the continent apart, the pressure left behind deep rifts that can shift and shove against each other and trigger earthquakes.

The magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake started innocuously as a moderate shock on a previously unknown thrust fault, so named because one side of the deep fault thrusts over the other.

«Other major faults of the San Francisco Bay Areas, including Rodgers Creek, Northern Calaveras and Concord - Green Valley, also expect large earthquakes, and should expect significant afterslip, especially in locations where interseismic creep rates are high, and where faults cross deep sedimentary basins,» Lienkaemper added.

In New Zealand, scientists are exploring why some faults are more prone to earthquakes than others by studying rocks extracted from deep within the wildly dynamic Alpine fault — the system that formed the mountains in the backdrop of The Lord of the Rings movies.

Using GPS, InSAR, gravity, seismic reflection, and geological data, Marcos Moreno and colleagues from GFZ as well as Chile show that the 2016 earthquake occurred at the deep boundary of a persistent asperity on the interface between the subducting Nazca and overriding South American plates, where both plates are coupled and not sliding past each other in spite of the high convergence velocity of 68 mm / year.

Although LDEO scientists are not saying that the pumping caused the quakes, injection fluids have been implicated in other strike - slip earthquakes close to deep - injection wells.

Unlike other, more active faults where aftershocks occur soon after the precipitating earthquake, the New Madrid faults are deeper and slower moving, resulting in aftershocks that have taken centuries to release.