Sentence examples for portion of fault from inspiring English sources

CSX, said Mr. Hollingsworth, who has since left the company, wants to make sure "that those responsible for injury pay their portion of fault".

These fusion models can solve a portion of fault diagnosis problems of complex equipment in specific conditions.

In particular, if the mid crustal low V P / V S and the low V P zone in the central section is due to the intruded fluid as inferred by Kato et al. (2007), the fluid also plays dramatic role to change the stress field extensional in the deep portion of fault.

Depocenters are aligned on the transcurrent fault system in conjunction with stepover portions of fault trace.

One possible cause is that the rupture mechanism transferred from the thrust faulting in the southwestern portion of the fault to the strike-slip faulting in the northeastern one.

Since the Coulomb stress changes, for the normal-fault aftershocks near the trench, are strongly dependent on the slip on the shallow portion of the fault, they can be combined with other data to constrain the slip distribution close to the trench more reliably.

The mathematical model that best fits the data, he said, indicates that this portion of the fault is creeping at about one-fifth of an inch a year all the way down to where rocks get sticky and soft.

And like the 1960 Chilean quake, the Indonesian quake increased stresses nearby: it was followed, just three months later, by an 8.7-magnitude quake on an adjacent portion of the fault zone.

The earthquakes referenced in the study are too small to cause any real damage, but Jean-Philippe Avouac, a Caltech seismologist who wasn't involved in the new research, believes that if Amos is right, the shifting mountains could accelerate the arrival of the Big One — the major quake predicted to eventually hit this portion of the fault.

Neither historical quakes nor the Tohoku quake has broken the offshore, shallow portion of the fault there.

The CFIC represents the portion of the fault frequency amplitude to the overall frequency amplitude.