Sentence examples for earthquake spanning from inspiring English sources

The giant 2004 Andaman-Sumatra earthquake ruptured the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake, spanning across more than 1200 km along this subduction system.

Cisternas et al. (2005) investigated the tsunami deposit along the coast of Chile and suggested that the fault rupture of the 1960 earthquake spanned two to three seismic segments along the trench.

Could the earthquake that hit off Indonesia 6 years ago somehow have touched off a cluster of great earthquakes spanning the Pacific, including the magnitude-9.0 "megaquake" that just struck off Japan?

Near the Nazca subduction zone the recorded history of interplate earthquakes spans 80 years.

Herein we present a new earthquake catalogue containing, in addition to the historic record of seismicity, 150 palaeo-earthquakes derived from 60 palaeo-earthquake features spanning the last > 100 ka of the history of the Precambrian shield and fringing extended margin of southwest Western Australia.

The examples shown are, unless otherwise noted, from a single simulation of a sequence of earthquakes with α = β = 3 in which all the defined earthquake types appeared before the twentieth event spanning Patch L. After a large earthquake, which spans Patch L, it locks, and later, a creeping motion invades into it from the rim.

The modeled maximum rate of subsidence and the deceleration of the subsidence rate are within a factor of 2 or so of the observed subsidence rates (Fig.  11 and Online Resource 2) (except in the interferograms spanning the large earthquakes).

The state's most notable misstep so far is Caltrans' failure to take sea-level rise into account in the design for the post-Loma Prieta earthquake eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Digicel provided them with the locations of unspecified individuals for a time period spanning from 42 days before the earthquake to 341 days after it.

Contiguous segments of the fault spanning more than 500 km broke at once in the earthquake, rather than one or at most two, as had been anticipated.

Spanning at least eight miles, a Kresna tunnel would be among the world's longest and built across a geological fault that experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 in 1904.