Sentences with phrase «small earthquakes between»
They put out numerous seismometers and recorded more than 180 small earthquakes between October 30 and May 31, 2009.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
According to the USGS, earthquakes between 5.0 and 5.9 are listed as moderate, and «can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions.
IMO recorded seismic tremors — small, continuous, almost rhythmic earthquakes thought to be related to the interaction between lava and ice — at 11:15 GMT.
Nine small earthquakes had already occurred between March and November 2011 within an eight - kilometer radius of a wastewater injection well run by Northstar Disposal Services.
In the latest research the researchers used data from previous fracking operations to measure the distance between the furthest detected microseismic event — a small earthquake caused by hydraulic fracturing of the rock or fault reactivation — and the injection point in the fracking borehole.
«Our results, using seismology and hydrogeology, show a strong link between a small number of wells and earthquakes migrating up to 50 kilometers away» said Keranen.
the cause of the accident is the fact that the geopgysicist community (source SciAm in french version) in the 70s was feelin that this could not happens where it happend, because the rift / break (correct me, I'm alien) was supposed to glide nicely with small earthquake, and quakeless glide (assumed because ther was difference between earthequake constraints relaxed, and total constraint created by usual move)... after that, people discover that ther have been big tsunamis, big earthquake, and that the theory may be false... but the power plant was built on a pretend safe place, and not beeing sure of the new theory, not much was done to anticipate a huge tsunami.