Sentences with phrase «studied larger quakes»
They also looked at the history books and studied larger quakes, magnitude 5.5 or more, which have rattled the state since 1781.
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He pointed to induced quakes of magnitude 4 or larger in the past year in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, but said much of this happened too late for the research council to include in its study.»
The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the area could be more prone to producing larger quakes than subduction zone areas farther south with less compact sediments.
A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be linked to compact sediments along large portions of the subduction zone.
Seismologist Austin Holland of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who was not involved in the study, says there could be a large number of factors playing into the quakes.
A 1988 study of other quake - prone Italian regions found, for example, that about half of large quakes were preceded by weaker foreshocks.
«If it's been a long time since a large earthquake, then, even after another quake happens, the fault's «memory» sometimes isn't wiped out, so there's still a good chance of having another,» said Seth Stein, the study's senior author and the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.