Sentences with phrase «quakes along the faults»

They conclude that there have been at least three major quakes along the faults in the past 1400 years, the most recent being a large tremor along the Pedro Miguel fault in 1621.

TomO, afaik, there has not been an uptick in quakes along any fault associated with the New Madrid Fault (there was a quake in that zone w / in last month,) nor is it known that any affected fault areas in OK extend to New Madrid.

Not exact matches

Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, studied 1126 quakes that happened along the Sumatran fault, where the Eurasian plate slides below the Indo - Australian plate, between 1976 and 2008.

By cutting vertical trenches into the ground along the faults, Rockwell and his colleagues were able to see signs of previous quakes from the exposed cross-sections of earth and rock.

The estimations presented by Marco Bohnhoff and his team are based on the analysis of numerous small quakes along the Marmara fault.

The surveys suggest instead that the Haiti quake may have ruptured primarily along a previously unmapped fault.

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.

«How friction evolves during an earthquake: By simulating quakes in a lab, engineers study the way that friction changes along a fault during a seismic event.»

A «broader and modern approach» to seismic risk mitigation in Italy, suggest the authors, would incorporate the scenario of multiple triggered quakes, along with the present understanding of active fault locations, mechanisms and interaction.

In 1811 three powerful quakes in a row — measuring approximately 7.5 to 8.3 on the Richter scale — ripped along the fault there, ringing church bells as far away as Boston.

The ruptured fault is not along the tectonic plate boundaries where major quakes are expected.

«A major quake along the Seattle fault is among the worst case scenarios for the area since the fault runs just south of downtown.

Researchers gained new insight into how earthquakes can interact from a magnitude 7.9 quake along Alaska's Denali Fault in November 2002 that involved a chain reaction of fault shaking.

Similarly, within 48 hours of the quake, the country's network of around 1200 GPS stations revealed that Earth's crust in central Honshu had shifted some 4 metres eastward following the release of strain along the fault.

The hole, near Parkfield, sits at the border between a quiet part of the fault that creeps along smoothly without producing quakes and a more dangerous patch that tends to fracture under stress and produce quakes.

In some cases, rather than slipping, the two sides along a fault rub together, which can cause a destructive, high - speed quake.