Sentence examples for ground fracture from inspiring English sources
Since 2010, in Qiantai mountain district of the mine's south slope, a ground fracture with a length of about 3100 m has appeared.
As the current immobilized him, Mr. Bryan fell to the ground, fracturing four teeth.
The electrical current immobilized him whereupon he fell face first into the ground, fracturing four teeth and suffering facial contusions.
Movement along these faults created numerous ground fractures observed in Minamiaso village at the western side of the central cones of Aso volcano (Fig. 2).
The stabilizing properties of the proposed model are emphasized with the aid of a realistic numerical example dealing with the generation of ground fractures due to groundwater withdrawal in arid regions.
As a consequence of the November 1940 earthquake (Mw = 7.7, 150 km depth), Radu and Spânoche (1977) reported numerous geohazards (ground fracturing and at least 40 shallow and medium-seated landslides accompanied by ground-water level disturbances), favoured by the wet conditions induced by the overall very humid 1937 1940 time period (annual mean precipitation exceeded by 13 38 %).
Eighty-two VLF-EM profiles and five 2D-ERTs were collected to maximise the spatial coverage of the subsurface prospection, while surface indicators of instability (e.g., tomb tilt, location, and direction of ground fractures and wall cracks) were mapped by standard metric survey.
Many homes and commercial buildings were severely damaged by the ground fracturing.
Ground fractures that were deemed to be tectonic in nature were documented on about 10.5 km of the White Mountain Fault Zone from Silver Creek to Piute Creek.
Hincapie recalled riding Paris-Roubaix once when his bike's fork broke, causing him to smack the ground and fracture his shoulder.
He spent decades perfecting techniques for unlocking them: injecting high-pressure fluids into the ground to fracture the rock and create pathways for the trapped oil and gas (fracking) and drilling down and then sideways to increase each well's yield (horizontal drilling).The result was a revolution.
