Sentence examples for inland plate from inspiring English sources

Therefore, the coupling at the interface between the inland plate and the PHS is not sufficient to create stress to generate earthquake activity in Kyushu, as pointed out in central Japan by Townend and Zoback (2006).

The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (the Tohoku earthquake) occurred at 14 46 (JST) on 11 March , 2011 along the plate boundary between the subducting Pacific plate and the overlying inland plate.

Although many previous studies have obtained the geometry of the subducting Indian Plate beneath the Burma Plate (based on hypocenter distributions), these studies have assumed subduction from the inland plate boundary, north of 20°N (e.g., Ni et al., 1989; Guzman-Speziale and Ni, 1996; Stork et al., 2008).

The value of d for an intra-slab earthquake, 0.12, is much larger than the values for inland crustal and inter-plate earthquakes.

Here and there were the remains of a concrete building, shattered into pieces the size of dinner plates and strewn inland.

Subduction-zone volcanoes occur on the overriding plate and are offset inland from the actual plate boundary along the ocean trench.

This suggests that these inland earthquake sequences in the overriding plate of NE Japan just after the 2011 Mw 9 earthquake were triggered by a static stress transfer.

The rest of the convergence is accommodated by crustal thickening in the inland part of the Bird's Head plate.

This result suggests that the afterslip area is spatially complementary to the asperity on the fault surface for inland earthquakes similar to large interplate earthquakes on the plate interface (Hiramatsu et al., 2011).

These results suggest that the afterslip area is spatially complementary to the asperity on the fault surface for inland earthquakes similar to large interplate earthquakes on the plate interface.

Following the Mw 9.0 event, many inland crustal earthquakes occurred in addition to aftershocks on the plate boundary.