Sentences with phrase «subduction margins»

This finding has applications to the seismic hazard of these regions, as it highlights the potential for future damaging earthquakes and tsunamis at active subduction margins with no measurable recent uplift.

Data analysis and modelling suggest that varying uplift rates along subduction margins are mainly a short - term phenomenon.

We hope that this new finding will promote the mapping and discovery of such faults along active subduction margins and will also help explain the variability in the recurrence of great - earthquakes encountered on many subductions globally.»

Asked what's new with these findings Vasiliki Mouslopoulou explains: «For the first time temporal clustering of great - earthquakes is shown on active subduction margins, indicating an intense period of strain release due to successive earthquakes, followed by long periods of seismic quiescence.»

Vasiliki Mouslopoulou says: «It is not unlikely that coastlines along active subduction margins with no detectable tectonic uplift over the last 10,000 years will accommodate bigger than M7 earthquakes in the near future.»

Professor McNeill explained that the North Sumatran subduction margin has an unusual structure and morphology that is likely influenced by the properties of the sediments and rocks forming the margin.

Not exact matches

«Although our understanding of this margin's structure and development has increased enormously since 2004 due to marine geophysical data collection, as yet very little is known of the properties of the materials that make up this subduction zone,» she continued.

Researchers hope to use similar imaging techniques on other subduction zones, such as the Cascadia margin along the northern U.S. west coast, where there is a long history of large megathrust earthquakes and related tsunamis.

The authors conclude that knowing the relative sea - level record for a coastal region on a subduction zone margin is the initial step in investigating paleoseismic history.