Sentences with phrase «upper plate»

The clear signal — the geodetic fingerprint — of a large subduction earthquake would be the abrupt lowering of land behind the beaches when the upper plate got stretched like taffy, snapped to the west, and then sank below the tide line.

In the violent, shuddering release of strain during an earthquake, the upper plate would snap to the west, toward its original shape.

On the other hand, if the two plates were stuck together by friction, strain would build up in the rocks and the upper plate would bend down along the outer edge and thicken inland, humping upward until the rocks along the fault failed.

However, in a process called flat - slab subduction, the lower plate moves almost horizontally underneath the upper plate.

Large earthquakes typically release stress on such locked faults — as the lower tectonic plate (here, the Indian plate) pulls the upper plate (here, the Eurasian plate) downward, strain builds in these locked sections until the upper plate breaks free, releasing strain and producing an earthquake.

c) After hundreds of years when the stress buildup overwhelms the locking friction, the plates suddenly break free from each other and the upper plate slips back in a few seconds to minutes.

b) As the lower plate slowly descends, it pulls the upper plate down with it, deforming the land surface above and bulding up stress.

Hold a dumbbell by the inside plates and then tuck the upper plate under your chin.

In his descent from the upper plate of Midgar into the slums, he meets Aeris, the flower girl he bumped into in the game's inception.