"segment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It appears that two fault segments may have broken 30 seconds apart, producing the very large shocks.
- Any large and longstanding gap is therefore considered to be the fault segment most likely to suffer future earthquakes.
- The fault segment is one of those known as a seismic gap, a place where little significant earthquake activity has occurred relative to nearby stretches.
- The dream we have is to use these methods to learn how fast each fault segment is moving.
- Globally, the quake has also told us that it's possible for a relatively small fault segment to spawn a giant earthquake.
- Other fault segments seem to be made of weaker rocks, he said, so that the rocks break more often, generating smaller earthquakes.
- Ultimately, each fault segment deemed dangerous to people and property will have to be independently monitored.
- "If an earthquake does not happen along that fault segment after a year or so, the danger would be less."
- The 2000 Sumatra earthquake took place at the southeastern end of the fault segment that ruptured during the 1833.
- It takes its name from the Hope River, which runs along one of the central fault segments.
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