Sentence examples for distant earthquakes from inspiring English sources

Drums explode out of silence or rumble like distant earthquakes.

Mexico City is vulnerable to distant earthquakes because much of it sits atop the muddy sediments of drained lake beds.

Waves from distant earthquakes will illuminate the structure of 100km (62 miles) of earth crust and mantle beneath the volcano.

These include P and S waves in earthquakes and nuclear explosions, the dispersion of surface waves from distant earthquakes, and vibrations of the whole Earth from large earthquakes.

The energy of Love waves, like that of other surface waves, spreads from the source in two directions rather than in three, and so these waves produce a strong record at seismic stations even when originating from distant earthquakes.

They will use distant earthquakes as an energy source: the seismic waves will illuminate the structure of the earth's crust and mantle 100km beneath the volcano, their speed increasing or decreasing depending on which kinds of rock they travel through.

As with the distant earthquake, those fears are probably exaggerated.

Just faintly at first, like a mild constant tremor, like the edge of a far distant earthquake.

Could the distant earthquake have triggered it?

In Figure 3b, an example of a distant earthquake, which cannot be well fitted by omega-square model, is compared with intra-slab earthquakes occurring below tremor sources.

(b) Comparison of velocity power spectra between an ordinary intra-slab earthquake and a distant earthquake at station TUVZ (Figure 2a).