Sentence examples for rupture zones from inspiring English sources

We have also observed, for the first time in a discrete element simulation of hoppers, the appearance of rupture zones within the material and associated wall stress peaks where the rupture zones intersect with the hopper wall.

Town officials are not entirely blind to the risks of sitting on a shoreline facing one of the world's most active seismic rupture zones.

The results of this study contribute to developing a better understanding of how seismically isolated bridges respond when traversed by fault rupture zones.

The best available records enable us to map the most likely rupture zones of twelve earthquakes that occurred during the historical period.

The present investigation also examines the fundamental interface mechanism and attempts to define the associated rupture zones in cohesionless material with the aid of thin vertical bands of coloured sand cast in a large distinctly fabricated pullout box.

These results, though limited to a single bridge structure and a single ground motion input, clearly indicate the importance of permanent ground displacement on the dynamic response of spatially extended engineering structures crossing fault rupture zones.

"There's this very broad turn-on of seismicity that extends 300 miles from the rupture zone," he said.

The epicenter of today's quake was located more than 90 miles east of the epicenter of the April 25th quake - and hence just outside its rupture zone.

This may considerably influence the calculated seismic response of a spatially extended engineering structure crossing a fault rupture zone.

Liquefaction sites covered an extension close to 1000 km, which approximately represents twice the length of the rupture zone.

The detailed DA image suggests that the narrow rupture zone after the 1984 Naganoken-Seibu earthquake still exists.