Sentence examples for deep earthquake from inspiring English sources

The rupture in the rock that causes a deep earthquake propagates rapidly at about 3km a second.

The magnitude 5.8 deep earthquake that struck Quebec on Nov. 25, 1988, sent unusually strong seismic waves to the St . LawrenceRiver, about 60 miles to the southeast.

For most people, no matter what their background, it was impossible to contemplate Wednesday's deep earthquake without imagining the potentially catastrophic effects of an equally powerful quake unleashed closer to the surface.

If a deep earthquake were to strike the New Madrid fault in Missouri, he said, strong earthquake waves could bounce 50 or more miles beyond the epicenter, spreading the damage.

A strong deep earthquake and subsequent Moho bounce along the southern portions of the San Andreas fault could wreak havoc on areas of Los Angeles, he said, and a moderate earthquake at Borrego Springs in the California desert in 1968 bounced shock waves to the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coastline 81 miles away.

This study shows that the corrected amplitude of the deep earthquake is lower than amplitudes of shallow earthquakes.

"The waves from deep earthquakes are typically sharper and cleaner".

"I prefer deep earthquakes when I'm doing a study," Dr. Ishii said.

"With deeper earthquakes, the waves have to travel farther, so we can have quite deep earthquakes that are not so damaging," Hough said.

However, pronounced high-velocity anomalies are again imaged at 600 km near an isolated cluster of deep earthquakes.

The Vrancea region is characterized by deep earthquakes while the Banat region is characterized by shallow earthquakes.