Sentences with phrase «such slow earthquakes»

They found a total of eight such slow earthquakes in the same general vicinity.

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Shaking can depend significantly on factors such as the depth of the earthquake, the orientation of a fault, whether or not the fault break reaches the surface and whether the earthquake rupture is relatively faster or slower than average.

So far, scientists believe that larger earthquakes are unlikely to occur following tremors or earthquakes below a Richter scale of 2 that are caused by small vibrations or slow fault movements such as those observed in the area of Parkfield along the San Andreas Fault in California, USA.

Yet slower, more continuous deformations — such as those caused by Earth tides or by slow earthquakes — are sometimes difficult to detect using large - scale techniques like GPS or seismic sensors.

1) tectonics — earthquakes and slow seismic events 2) erosion / sedimentation 3) isostatic rebound — response to a change in surface load (such as the removal of an ice sheet or deposition or removal of sediment)