The large patches of slip may represent areas of smooth fault surface, which may allow greater dynamic weakening during a large earthquake (e.g., Fang and Dunham 2013).
If the background differential stress is relatively low, perhaps kept low by the greater dynamic weakening, the stress drop need not be unusually high to be near-complete.
The greater water weakening of cores saturated with SSW1 was discussed in terms of a chemical dissolution/precipitation process and the chemistry of the thin water film close to the intergranular contacts.
The Second World War as a great shock weakened the European nation-state system and gave a group of European elites the power to develop a federal European project as an alternative to the existing European nation-state system (Burgess, 2000: p. 69; 2009).
In 906 Great Moravia, weakened by an internal crisis and Magyar invasions, ceased to exist.
All normal in a 90-year old great grandfather, weakened by a long illness who had overcome death, but not for the Fidel Castro who has his lecturing articles aired, pretending to be the forceful Comandante he was once.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh has had great success in weakening Maoism with a combination of better development and policing.
"The so-called democratization of Russia in the last 10 years was to a great extent the weakening of the state," he said.
