Sentence examples similar to modest rupture from inspiring English sources
While the mainshock ruptured primarily updip, AS2 ruptured east with a small component of updip rupture.
This difference suggests the possibility that the seismic radiation of the M 7.3 event had a frequency-dependent spatial variation: The rupture near the hypocenter had modest slips and a strong high-frequency seismic radiation, whereas the rupture 10 30 km northeast of the hypocenter had large slips and a weak high-frequency seismic radiation.
Although amoxicillin was associated with tendon rupture and aortic aneurysm, the magnitude of this association was significantly more modest compared to fluoroquinolones; the 95% CIs were non-overlapping (table 2).
The rupture occurred 15 miles beneath the sea floor but may have represented a relatively modest amount of slippage as the Pacific plate pushed deeper, which could possibly explain the absence of a severe tsunami.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a modest and temporary freeze on military assistance to Egypt, even as American officials emphasized their desire to avoid rupturing a security relationship that stretches back more than three decades.
Sarkozy calls change "rupture".
