Sentence examples for rupture along from inspiring English sources

Regular aftershocks have already hit Japan as the Earth's crust continues to rupture along the Japan trench.

The biggest fear, he said, is that Pegasus will rupture along a stretch below the Cedar Creek Reservoir, formed along the Trinity River, which Gun Barrel City and its neighbors depend on for drinking water and recreation.

The seismic moment, first introduced by Aki in 1966, takes into consideration such factors as the length and depth of the rupture along the fault where an earthquake occurs, the strength of the displaced rocks, and the distance the rocks slip.

Researchers have estimated that a rupture along that segment — and again, they have no idea when one might occur — could result in a magnitude 7.5 quake that could cause severe damage in the Dominican Republic's second-largest city, Santiago, and the surrounding Cibao Valley, together home to several million people.

These scenarios are: a uniform rupture centered on the hypocenter, a uniform rupture extending south of the hypocenter, and a uniform rupture along a narrow and long rupture along the entire Japan trench.

In addition, Heki has found that earlier anomalies precede stronger earthquakes, potentially reflecting the longer time needed to initiate rupture along larger segments of a fault.

The 1960 Chile great earthquake that ruptured along-strike segments, one by one, where all the segments appear to be fully coupled beforehand.

Tens of miles of crust ruptured along the trench where the tectonic plates meet.

As a nation ruptures along bloodlines, the novel evoked incest and bestiality, "to make everyone sit up and see the ugliness of what was happening.

A reader may need to sit with that sentence for a while, read it over once or twice, perhaps look up the word dehiscence ("a surgical complication in which a wound ruptures along a surgical incision").

But its impact was still horrendous to behold, and came after a few days when nature had wreaked havoc across Asia.The terrifying prospect remains of more ruptures along the same fault-line that produced the 2004 Asian tsunami.