Palaeoseismic analyses of the fault system indicate that it ruptured during a large earthquake in either 1750 or 1770, but did not rupture the surface during the 2010 earthquake.
There are undercurrents of passion, deception and self-delusion that never quite rupture the surface but subtly threaten this idyllic world.
It is possible that the impacts of meteors, which InSight might be able to record, rupture the surface and allow underground pockets of methane to rise into the atmosphere.
The full density consolidation of metal powders at room temperature resulted from severe shear deformation of the particles which ruptured the surface oxide layers.
Yet what finally ruptures the surface of this hushed, fraught world is the Jackson 5 version of "Who's Lovin' You," which sends Ms. Bender into a luscious spiraling solo.
The first results from the EU's Sentinel 1 satellite show that last Saturday's earthquake in Nepal did not rupture the surface, reports the excellent Kate Ravillious.
By vigorously rowing along the surface, striders create swirls that help propel them forward, all without rupturing the water surface.
Early in its growth within the archegonium, the embryo produces a foot that penetrates the thallus and an apical meristem that elongates the rest of the horn-shaped sporophyte to rupture the thallus surface.
Ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan draws us into these intensely competitive events, in which political corruption, conflicting notions of identity, and irrepressible creativity rupture the smooth surface of cultural order.
In September 1999, a 7.6-magnitude earthquake near Chi-Chi, 90 miles south-southwest of Taipei, killed 2,400 people and ruptured the earth's surface.
