Sentence examples for major ruptures from inspiring English sources

The aftershocks' major ruptures (blue squares in Fig. 10) spread NW along the adopted fault plane of the M JMA7.3 mainshock (yellow rectangles in Fig. 10).

The minimum distance of the hypocenters from the respective fault planes is shown in Table 3 as parameter R. Foreshocks' major ruptures (red squares in Fig. 10) continuously cover the northernmost part of the Hinagu fault zone, having length of approximately 20 km.

The San Andreas fault, for example, suffered two major ruptures in the 19th century: a quake of about magnitude 7.5 in 1812 and a much worse, 7.9 temblor in 1857.

State officials have known about the Hollywood fault for decades, but focused on first mapping faults with recent histories of major ruptures, such as the San Andreas, which caused both the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the Loma Prieta quake.

"He haemorrhages on a regular basis, and sometimes experiences a major rupture with extensive bleeding," they wrote.

Each time a major rupture occurs on the faultline, it "transfers stress" further along the line, making a subsequent earthquake more likely.

And if the models can't foresee a relatively minor break like a recession, they have even more trouble modeling and predicting a major rupture like a full-blown financial crisis.

The acknowledgment is passive for good reasons: an open confrontation, with a loved one or oneself, risks a major rupture or life change that could be more dire than the offense.

For Mr Clegg and those other Lib Dems who share his ambition for the party, this would be a stunning development in their long-term fortunes as well as a major rupture in British political history.

But the efforts of Mr. Abbas to join hands with Hamas also underscore his determination to pursue Palestinian statehood unilaterally and his willingness to risk a major rupture with the United States and Israel.

ATHENS — In a tumultuous day of political gamesmanship, Prime Minister George A. Papandreou called off a referendum on Greece's new debt deal with the euro zone on Thursday after winning a measure of support from his opposition and managing to repair, at least for a day, a major rupture in relations with Europe.