Sentence examples for rupture width from inspiring English sources

This coincidentally results in the down-dip rupture width being the same for both stages.

We constrained the fault length and width to be 30 km, according to the empirical source scaling relationship between earthquake magnitude and rupture width (Wells and Coppersmith 1994).

Furthermore, maybe the most prominent characteristic of the NAF in the study area is how the resistive features stretch to such a great extent of depth, pointing out a deeper brittle to ductile transition, thus wider rupture width for potential large events such as the 1668 and 1943 earthquakes (Hubert-Ferrari et al. 2002).

In such a rupture, the width of the seismogenic zone gives the compliance of the system (Kanamori and Anderson 1975; Romanowicz 1992), and rupture propagation at a constant speed would cause a constant moment rate.

c Total slip distribution based on the 0.05 1.0 Hz strong-motion waveform inversion (Yoshida et al. 2016) Table 1 Source parameters of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake obtained from inversion results References Mo (inv).a Mo (F-net) Length Width Rupture area Av. slip Max.

The atomistic simulational model reveals a temperature-dependent critical terrace width for rupture and specifies criteria for thermodynamic stability.

Panel G shows a relatively common width of rupture of the OMM.

6. North Kusasenrigahama  Many slope collapses appeared on the northwest flank of the Kusasenrigahama with more than seven surface ruptures 400 m in width on the road (Sites 44 to 46).