Sentences with phrase «slip during an earthquake»

In general, the more abrupt the onset of slip during an earthquake, the more energetic the radiated high - frequency seismic waves.

The GPS records described in the Science Express paper show that within the zone that experienced the greatest amount of slip during the earthquake — a region south of the sources of high - frequency waves and closer to Kathmandu — the onset of slip on the fault was actually very smooth.

Airborne UAVSAR mapping can allow a rapid response after an earthquake to determine what fault was the source and which parts of the fault slipped during the earthquake.

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The frictional resistance on a fault during slip controls earthquake dynamics.

This behavior provides an explanation for the huge shallow slip that occurred during the earthquake.

The low resistance to slip on the fault may help explain the large amount of slip — an unprecedented 50 meters of displacement — that occurred during the earthquake, according to UC Santa Cruz researcher Patrick Fulton, who is first author of the paper focusing on the temperature measurements.

Using these same fault - zone materials, Ujiie et al. (p. 1211) performed high - velocity frictional experiments to determine the physical controls on the large slip that occurred during the earthquake.

That will provide them with the resistance forces felt in the fault during the slip, filling in a blank in models of earthquake dynamics.

An ultra-thin fault zone packed with slippery clay was behind the massive seismic slip during the devastating Tohoku earthquake of 2011 in Japan.

As earthquakes occur during the course of this project, the team is measuring the deformation at the time of the earthquakes to determine the distribution of slip on the faults, and then monitoring longer - term motions after the earthquakes to learn more about fault zone properties.

A comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes.

However, during deglaciation, the faults experience accelerated slip and earthquakes are triggered (see Post-glacial rebound).