Sentences with phrase «studied slow slip»

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«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.

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.

«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.

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.

A new University of Washington study finds that the same technique can be used to detect gradual movement of tectonic plates, what are called «slow slip» earthquakes.

The study tests the method on more than 200 GPS stations that recorded slow slips between 2005 and 2016 along the Cascadia fault zone, which runs from northern California up to northern Vancouver Island.