Sentences with phrase «pressure along a fault»

Since the 1960s, geologists have recognized that fluid injection can induce earthquakes by raising the hydraulic pressure along a fault, pushing the two sides apart to let the crust slide along it.

Ultimately, better information on fluid volumes, flow parameters, and subsurface pressures in the region will provide more accurate estimates of the fluid pressure along this fault.

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Slip along the fault there, under the higher temperatures and pressures found deeper in the crust, takes on a different character: Ruptures are more plastic than brittle.

They then put the two pieces together under pressure, simulating the static friction that builds up along a fault line.

But increasing fluid pressure at depth reduces the friction along the fault, sometimes triggering an earthquake.

And it's this rising pressure that is triggering new motion along faults.

Their goal was to read all the vital signs of an earthquake — not just fault motions but also the precise pressures, temperatures, strains, and chemical compositions of minerals in the nucleation zone, along with an analysis of rocks and fluids extracted through the drill hole.

«The model shows that a pressure differential develops along one of the faults as a combined result of high fluid injection rates to the west and high water removal rates to the east,» said Matthew Hornbach, SMU associate professor of geophysics.

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