Sentences with phrase «smaller earthquakes at»

In recent years there has been an increase in smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic system.

Not exact matches

NAMIE, Japan, March 27 - At a small plant intended to help revitalise a town ravaged by the 2011 earthquake, Nissan Motor Co is giving its costly electric vehicle batteries new life after they pass their peak performance.

«It has been argued for decades that fault systems evolving over geological time may unify smaller fault segments, forming mature rupture zones with a potential for larger earthquake,» said Marco Bohnhoff, professor of geophysics at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, who sought to clarify the seismic hazard potential from the NAFZ.

The earthquakes at Axial Seamount are small and the seafloor movements gradual and thus can not cause a tsunami.

IMO recorded seismic tremors — small, continuous, almost rhythmic earthquakes thought to be related to the interaction between lava and ice — at 11:15 GMT.

Such changes — whether caused by global warming or earthquakes — remain too small to be reliably detected at present, Gross says.

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

ROME — A project to drill deep into the heart of a «supervolcano» in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small earthquakes or an explosion.

The preliminary results from the Cascadia Initiative include a report of previously undetected, small earthquakes offshore, and seismic imaging that reveals new offshore structures at the subduction zone.

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

Yes, albeit on a much smaller scale than the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, according to computer models used by a team of researchers, led by seismologists at the University of California, Riverside.

Emile Okal at Northwestern University in Illinois cautions that this theoretical approach may only be valid for small earthquakes.

The mathematical expression of the law at the seismic moment, proposed by Serra and Corral, meets all the conditions needed to determine both the probability of smaller earthquakes and of large ones, by adjusting itself to the most recent and extreme cases of Tohoku, in Japan (2011) and Sumatra, in Indonesia (2004); as well as to determine negligible probabilities for earthquakes of disproportionate magnitudes.

Making it useful at the regional level or smaller, such as the mantle activity beneath Southern California or the earthquake - prone crust of Istanbul, will require additional work.

Michell noted that «the motion of the earth in earthquakes is... partly propagated by waves, which succeed one another sometimes at larger and sometimes at smaller distances.»

Over the wide frequency range of seismic waves transmitted through the Earth (hundreds of seconds to ten cycles per second), the sensors of the permanent and transportable seismic and magnetotelluric arrays will resolve the smallest background motions at the quietest of sites, while remaining «on scale» for all but the largest ground motions from regional earthquakes.

For his first exhibition at White Cube in 2009, Zhang Huan created an installation and series of paintings based on a renowned survivor of the recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China, a pig that lived, trapped, for 49 days after the quake, surviving on rainwater, rotten wood and a small amount of foraged feed.

If I was a questioner, I'd ask them about potentialities of the future earthquakes under Greenland and West Antarctic ice, about small so far earthquakes for first time on record in west Greenland last summer (UK Guardian early September), magma close to surface northeast Greenland (MSNBC early December), magma close to surface by Pine Island Glacier W. Antarctic (NYT January), rain at North Pole last summer and morels on Greenland big enough to fly a helicopter into (UK Independent, both articles early October)

@Boa05att: Yes, this is what has not been done in Fukushima, where the risk of a big earthquake had been calculated as once in 1000 years or so, which seem small at first glance, but yielding 1/30 within nominal reactor lifetime, which is very big, taking into account the potential (and then real) damage.

It's no small feature that earthquake resistance is one of any number of construction standards that can be «baked in» to contour crafted structures — and into entire areas all at once.