Sentence examples for main shocks and from inspiring English sources

Ground motion from these main shocks and a number of aftershocks were recorded at the Icelandic strong motion network operated by the University of Iceland.

However, the forecast experiment requires a forecast of the total number of earthquakes during a time period, and does not distinguish between main shocks and aftershocks.

In his model, the exponent for the main shocks and their first few aftershocks should start out relatively high closer to the -1.2 of the original fire model with only one kind of tree.

The micro-earthquake activity close to the source region was found to increase before the occurrence of the main shocks and continue up to a month before reaching a background level (Ramana et al., 2007).

The obtained distributions of S-wave velocity deviation at depths of 6, 12, 18, 24 and 40 km are shown in Fig. 9; the main shocks and aftershocks as well as an outline of the aftershock region are also shown in this figure.

Of significant concern following the main shock and tsunami was the status of several nuclear power stations in the Tōhoku region.

The geology of the Tohoku district, the seismic motion of the main shock and the precipitation around the time of the earthquake are described.

Two types of ground motion patterns of the main shock and the maximum aftershock measured in the Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004 are used as the seismic load.

Seismic safety of a structure should therefore be ascertained through a damage analysis using the anticipated main shock and few larger-aftershock motions.

This has been rewarding, revealing all kinds of power laws governing things like the number of events of a specific magnitude and the difference between the main shock and its biggest aftershock.

The two stars show the locations of the main shock and the largest after-shock (March 11 , 2011.