The phrase "a strong patch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a patch that is durable, effective, or has a significant impact, often in contexts related to software, clothing, or repairs.
Example: "After applying a strong patch to the software, the system ran much more smoothly without any glitches."
Alternatives: "a robust patch" or "a solid patch".
Similarly, the high co-seismic displacements in the Gölcük region and the lack of obvious rotations in the aftershock alignment along the Gölcük segment imply a strong crustal patch for the Gölcük region.
This cluster is located near the KIM motif salt bridges, thus making the whole region a strong stabilizing patch of the complex (FIG. 9B).
Seismic and aseismic slips on the megathrust surrounding these two strong asperity patches (i.e., the two large slip patches) increased shear stress and finally quasi-static slips propagated toward the initial rupture point of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake within the southern strong patch, triggering the great M 9.0 megathrust earthquake.
Hence, due to several possible reasons (e.g., strong patches, dynamic effects), strong spatial heterogeneity of stress could have been produced by the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake.
Repeating small earthquakes on the plate interface are thought to occur at small asperities (strong patches) on the fault zone that catch up with aseismic fault slip (creep) on the surrounding surface.
Some mathematical models relying on Swarm magnetic field measurements only (D and I) show increasing differences in the polar regions possibly coming from the fact that the time window covered by the available data is too small to constrain accurately the SV up to SH degree 8. Models C and G exhibit two strong patches of opposite sign whose origin is unclear.
PMM group 6 genes had strong patches of F-actin, and included genes encoding the actin filament capping protein CAPZB, the actin filament severing and depolymerising protein Cofilin1 (CFL1), and PDZK8.
The pore entry along the intracellular region (IC2) shows a strong negatively charged patch (Fig. 3A) (including aspartate residue in TM5) which could suggest a pore region for cations to move along the pore.
Moreover, a stronger cytoplasmic patched staining was observed in Flag-TRAF4 transfected cells (Figure 3D).
