Sentences with phrase «with slow earthquakes»

«These signals resemble Earth tremor that occurs in association with slow earthquakes on tectonic faults in the lower crust,» Johnson said.

Not exact matches

The slow start to the season has first - year head coach Mikael Stahre contemplating some changes to the team's lineup and formation as the Earthquakes prepare to face the Philadelphia Union on the road this Saturday at Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, PA, kickoff at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, with live streaming provided by MLS Live.

«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.

But the earthquake seemed to lack the high - frequency waves that would have damaged smaller buildings — and it probably has something to do with its smooth and slow onset, Avouac says.

First, a basin underneath Kathmandu, filled with half a kilometer of soft sediments, amplified the shaking of taller buildings; and second, a gentle, slow onset to the earthquake's rupture limited the types of waves that would have shaken shorter buildings.

Previous research by Chi - Ching Liu of the Academica Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, has linked the passage of typhoons with the triggering of «slow» earthquakes.

Now a team of researchers, led by Teh - Ru Alex Song of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, has found that an anomalous layer at the top of a subducting plate coincides with the locations of slow earthquakes and non-volcanic tremors.

Earthquake history in Japan was misleading, as it can be in so many other countries with even shorter records and slower tectonic processes.