Sentence examples for northwest direction from inspiring English sources

A demagnetized area elongated in the north to northwest direction from Shinmoe-dake has been detected.

The first sub-event ruptured northeastwards during the first 25 s, and then turned to the northwest direction.

The depositional centres of the Wenchang Formation appear to have migrated from the HZ26 sag to the XJ24 sag-along the northwest direction from sequences SQ1 to SQ7.

The centroid of wetland landscape moved 12.54 km in the northwest direction firstly, 11.33 km in the southeast direction, and then 1.1 km in the north direction.

Due to the northwest-elongated anomalies distribution of the region, the rupture of the northern branch turned to the northwest direction.

The tilt changes showed slight uplifts of southwest direction at the SNE station, the northwest direction at YNN and the north direction at TCG, respectively (Fig. 12).

As shown in Fig. 4(a), the horizontal distribution of magnetization demonstrates that a weakly-magnetized zone extends from the edifice of Shinmoe-dake in both the north and the northwest directions.

The system landed on Cuba as a tropical storm on September 3 and moved on in a west-northwest direction.

The advancing ice sheets pushed up material that remains today as terminal moraines, stretching across the country in a generally southeast-to-northwest direction and rising to some 500 feet (150 metres) above the general level.

Extending from the northern coast, the Usambara and Pare mountain chains run in a southeast-to-northwest direction, culminating in Kilimanjaro's lofty snow-clad peak and continuing beyond to Mount Meru (14,978 feet [4,565 metres]).

The Pacific plate is moving about 3.5 inches a year in a west-northwest direction, and in that collision — what geologists call a subduction zone — the Pacific plate dives under the North American plate.