Sentences with phrase «slow slip»

The results show that this simple technique's estimates for the size, duration and travel distance for major slow slip events match the results of more exhaustive analyses of observations along the fault.

Slow slip events, a type of slow motion earthquake that occurs over days to weeks, are thought to be capable of triggering larger, potentially damaging earthquakes.

«Once we are able to put instruments close to the plate interface, below the sea, I believe we will see that many earthquakes are preceded by a phase of slow slip.»

A GPS network operated by GeoNet, a partnership between GNS Science and the New Zealand Earthquake Commission, detected slow slip events hundreds of miles away beneath the North Island.

A new technique can quickly pinpoint slow slips from a single Global Positioning System station.

There was also a deeper slow slip event triggered on the subduction zone at 15 - 24 miles beneath the Kapiti Coast region, just west of New Zealand's capital city Wellington.

Although scientists are still in the early stages of trying to understand the relationships between slow slip events and earthquakes, Wallace said that the study results highlight additional linkages between these processes.

Unlike slow slips events, earthquakes — or stick - slip events — occur when surfaces quickly alternate between sticking to each other and sliding over each other.

So researchers are anxious to find out whether the stress transferred southward from the 9 has accelerated slow slip on the fault and thus defused the threat of a quake.

«This is probably the clearest example worldwide of long - distance, large - scale slow slip triggering,» said lead author Laura Wallace, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).

In a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin, scientists have documented the first clear - cut instance of the reverse — a massive earthquake immediately triggering a series of large slow slip events.

«I want to be able to use this for things beyond slow slip,» Crowell said.

«Looking at the Cascadia Subduction Zone — which is the most - studied slow slip area in the world — was a good way to validate the methodology,» Crowell said.

«Using a method from Wall Street to track slow slipping of Earth's crust.»

Using these data to detect slow slips currently means comparing different GPS stations with complex data processing.

The study tests the method on more than 200 GPS stations that recorded slow slips between 2005 and 2016 along the Cascadia fault zone, which runs from northern California up to northern Vancouver Island.

It borrows the financial industry's relative strength index, a measure of how quickly a stock's price is changing, to detect slow slips within a string of GPS observations.

Above that speed, the STC unit slows a slipping drive wheel by reducing engine torque by limiting fuel supply.

It's disheartening that the iOS platform is slowing slipping away from what it could have been.

That doesn't work for slow slips, which do not release enough energy to send waves of energy through the Earth's crust to reach seismometers.

This deeper slow slip event near Wellington is still ongoing today.

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A research team hasinvestigated the relationship between slow slip events and seismic activity, while analyzing data on seismic events around the Philippine Sea Plate.

Slow slip events in the past have been associated with triggering earthquakes, including the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan in 2011.

«It could be in smaller earthquakes, slow slip events, or in a much larger one.»

That slow slip now appears to have loaded the fault to the breaking point, triggering the devastating quake last March.

The research group discovered migrating (moving) shallow low - frequency tremors which are thought to be triggered by slow episodic slipping (slow slip event) at the shallow plate boundary.

The silent earthquakes may then take place when a batch of fluid from the slab is working its way up — as the fluid passes, it will unclamp the fault zone a little bit, perhaps allowing some slow slip.

Because the slow slips occur deep and at discrete intervals, they regulate the rate at which stress accumulates on the shallower part of the fault zone, which moves in fits and starts.

The slow slip occurred at less than 9 miles deep below the surface (or seabed) and spanned an area of more than 6,000 square miles offshore from the Hawke's Bay and Gisborne regions, comparable with the area occupied by the state of New Jersey.

The 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura earthquake (marked by a red star) triggered a slow slip event (marked by red area) on New Zealand's North Island.

The researchers have also found that the slow slip events triggered by the Kaik?ura quake were the catalyst for other quakes offshore from the North Island's east coast, including a magnitude 6.0 just offshore from the town of Porangahau on Nov. 22, 2016.

However, unlike earthquakes (where the movement occurs in seconds), movement in these slow slip events or «silent earthquakes» can take weeks to months to occur.

Slow slip events are similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of Earth's crust along a fault.

Some of the slow slip events occurred as far away as 300 miles from the earthquake's epicenter.

The slow slip spanned an area comparable to the state of New Jersey.

The GPS network detected the slow slip events occurring on the Hikurangi subduction zone plate boundary in the weeks and months following the Kaik?ura earthquake.

This layer of more compliant rock is particularly susceptible to trapping seismic energy, which promotes slip between the plates at the base of the sedimentary wedge where the slow slip events occur.

«The slow slip event following the Kaik?ura earthquake is the largest and most widespread episode of slow slip observed in New Zealand since these observations started in 2002,» Wallace said.

«Our study also suggests that the northward traveling rupture during the Kaik?ura quake directed strong pulses of seismic energy towards the North Island, which also influenced the long - distance triggering of the slow slip events beneath the North Island,» said Yoshihiro Kaneko, a seismologist at GNS Science.

A new University of Washington study finds that the same technique can be used to detect gradual movement of tectonic plates, what are called «slow slip» earthquakes.

A slow slip slightly increases the chance of a larger earthquake.

But thanks to the efforts of stock traders who want to know quickly whether to buy or sell, the new paper shows that the relative strength index can detect a slow slip from a single one of the 213 GPS stations along the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Discovered in the early 2000s, slow slips are a type of silent earthquake in which two plates slip harmlessly past one another over weeks or months.

By contrast, slow slip events (SSEs) release seismic stress at a lower rate than large earthquakes, re-occurring in cycles (across months to years).

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