News tagged with slip events
New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2009 |
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After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula. These findings ...
Research links seismic slip and tremor, with implications for subduction zone
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of two weeks or more, releasing ...
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This is not a drill: The earth actually is moving beneath western Washington
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2008 |
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While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake on the Seattle fault, a real though unfelt seismic event is taking place beneath western Washington.
Slow slip and slide dynamics
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Kim Psencik, a Ph.D. student in the division of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, was recently awarded the prestigious MARGINS Student Prize ...
Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica ...
Rising tides intensify non-volcanic tremor in Earth's crust
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Nov 22, 2007 |
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For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months. Such episodic tremor-and-slip events ...
Scientists: Silent tremors may foretell next Big One
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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The seismometer is snugged in its hole and tamped over with dirt. Now it's time for the stomp test.
Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires
May 27, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is ...
Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China
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May 16, 2008 |
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Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthq ...
2002 Alaskan quake left 7 areas of California stirred but not shaken
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Nov 22, 2007 |
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Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific ...
Study reveals how continents can break apart
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Aug 01, 2006 |
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A paper co-authored by CSIRO's Professor Klaus Regenauer-Lieb and published in Nature reveals new information on the strength of continents and how they can split apart.
2006 tectonic plate motion reversal near Acapulco puzzles earthquake scientists
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Aug 02, 2007 |
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A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the ...
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