Sentences with phrase «smaller earthquake events»
«The probability of such an event in a given time frame is low compared to smaller earthquake events.
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«It could be in smaller earthquakes, slow slip events, or in a much larger one.»
Afterwards, seismic activity around Japan's capital spiked, and small earthquakes are now three times as frequent as they were before the 2011 event.
Fiber goes out in the ocean, and it's all over the land, so this technology increases the likelihood that a sensor is near the rupture when an earthquake happens, which translates into finding small events, improved earthquake locations, and extra time for early warning.»
«Although the simulated earthquake - induced tsunamis are not small, there has been a recorded history of significantly larger events, in terms of earthquake magnitude and mainshock areas, taking place in the region,» says Samaras.
The system works because smaller earthquakes tend to send out high - frequency p waves whereas large - magnitude events radiate lower frequency energy.
ElarmS is designed to detect earthquakes small and large, because «only if it works for small magnitude events can we be sure the system is operational,» Allen says.
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.
Nearby seismometers revealed that the events released energy equivalent to earthquakes of magnitudes 5.1 and 4.9 and triggered 16 tiny quakes over 10 days, the smallest of which packed less pop than a hand grenade.
These small earthquakes include M4.9 and 4.8 events off Newport, Oregon in 2004 and a M4.6 off Northern California in 2008.
The event will be smaller than in the past, in part because of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
In terms of energy release, Japan's event was roughly half the size of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake, the smallest of the big three, so things could have been worse....
Taking very small events out of the equation, 750 relevant loss events [in 2016] such as earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves were recorded in the Munich Re NatCatSERVICE database.
A tiny seismic event that occurred in North Korea on 12 May 2010 appears to have bene an earthquake rather than a small underground nuclear explosion, according to a new analysis published in the Bulletin of the Seismological...