News tagged with fault

Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 23, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 1

The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little ...

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

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Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...

Underwater gas may hold clues on Turkey quake risk

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Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Natural gas that lies under Turkey's Marmara Sea close to Istanbul could provide advance warning of an earthquake experts believe will hit the country's largest city, scientists said on Tuesday.

Quake prediction model developed

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Dec 03, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.

New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones

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Dec 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...