"fault" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Moreover, faults may rupture in much the same way that a tire skids on pavement or a ripple moves through a rug.
- But it is consistent with what we know about how major quakes can add strain to areas at a considerable distance from where the fault actually ruptured.
- In mapping the area affected by last week's quake, Dr. Barka said that the fault ruptured for at least 60 miles east of Izmit.
- If the region is under active compression these faults are constantly rupturing, but any given valley might only experience a large earthquake every few hundred years.
- It assumes neighboring faults can rupture together.
- More specifically, geologists have determined that the fault has ruptured at least four times in the past 11,000 years.
- A deep fault ruptured in him, and he teetered on the edge for a timeless moment.
- The fault ruptured in 1930, causing a Magnitude 7.3 quake and likely a local tsunami at Bago, causing over 500 deaths.
- And when larger faults ruptured, the home computer data would give a better picture of ground motion than has ever been captured, Dr. Cranswick said.
- Everything compresses on this point and if the pressure isn't relieved, the fault will rupture completely, destroying much for no reason.
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