Sentences with phrase «slow slip events»

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

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.

«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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The shallow tremors had similar migration properties to deep low - frequency tremors that occur at the deep subducting plate interface, and that they also occurred synchronized in time and space with shallow very - low - frequency tremors that also thought to be triggered by slow slip events.

These observations indicate that episodic slow slip events are probably occurring at the shallow plate boundary in the vicinity of the Nankai Trough.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

«It is not really clear how slow - slip events interact with earthquakes, whether they can trigger earthquakes or it's the other way around — that earthquakes trigger slow - slip events,» said Jacqueline Reber, the study's lead author who performed this research as postdoctoral fellow at UTIG, and who is now an assistant professor at Iowa State University.