News tagged with fault zone
Sichuan quake was once-in-4,000-year event: scientists
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Sep 27, 2009 |
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People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday.
Research gives glimpse of tectonic history on Puget Sound-region fault zones
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on the Kitsap Peninsula, at the west edge of Washington state's Puget Sound, finds evidence that land was raised at least 6 feet by ancient earthquakes.
Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased quake risk
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably ...
Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault that Caused Deadly 2003 Quake in Iran
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside’s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake ...
Locations of strain, slip identified in major earthquake fault
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Deep-sea drilling into one of the most active earthquake zones on the planet is providing the first direct look at the geophysical fault properties underlying some of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis.
New analysis of earthquake zone raises questions
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Aug 26, 2008 |
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Oregon State University scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in ...
