Sentence examples for fault release from inspiring English sources

Numerous fractures developed around the strike-slip fault release overpressured pore fluid trapped beneath the mega-splay fault.

As outlined below, don't worry; it's just the fault releasing some pent-up stress.

A major fault released plenty of stress, but the chunk of mobile rock is still moving in an uneven, erratic way, unleashing additional pent up stress that it's been storing for some time.

Actually, slip on the two conjugate faults releases the same strain so that it becomes difficult for the rupture to propagate simultaneously on both faults when the main rupture is propagating.

The fault could release this energy with more earthquakes or by slowly shifting without triggering major temblors.

In the central portion of the fault, moment release appears very similar to the major features of the updated model, though with lower peak slip (∼25 m), and broader slip down-dip of the hypocenter.

State geologist John Parrish last year accelerated the mapping of the Hollywood fault and released in January a draft map that showed the approximate location of the fault going underneath several major developments in Hollywood, including the Millennium project.

They suggest that the fault is releasing pent-up energy.

The second: a giant metal slab, sent crashing from high orbit into a major geological fault line, releasing a tsunami that drowns the world's coastlines.

Results show how gas migration is channelled along discrete, high-permeability pathways within the faults, with release typically occurring from spatially restricted gas vents.

These fractured zones may include faults that release the shear stresses affecting the surfaces.