Sentences with phrase «producing larger quakes»

The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the area could be more prone to producing larger quakes than subduction zone areas farther south with less compact sediments.

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The findings also confirm that the entire area of the Himalayas is capable of producing large earthquakes like the magnitude - 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

New Madrid - area faults produced earthquakes as large as 7 or 8 - magnitude in the early 1800s and have produced smaller quakes since then.

In fact, five fault segments failed simultaneously, producing a quake much larger than the model had predicted.

In this case, the quake was caused when a 620 - mile - long (1,000 kilometers) stretch of the Nazca plate, an oceanic plate that forms a large swath of the Pacific Ocean floor, lurched deeper beneath the South American plate, producing the only 9.5 - magnitude quake on record.