News articles tagged with 'megathrust'
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Peruvian tectonic plates move by earthquakes and non-seismic slip
— 7 May 2010 12:31 | Geology and palaeontologyJust a few years ago, Dan Farber happened to be doing field work in Peru with students when the 8.0 Pisco earthquake struck. As a scientist working in the active tectonics of the Peruvian…
Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
— 16 Dec 2009 11:16 | Geology and palaeontologyFor most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of…
Study links seismic slip and tremor, with implications for subduction zone
— 29 Jan 2009 19:00 | Geology and palaeontologyIn the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of…
Trapped water cause of regular tremors under Vancouver Island
— 1 Jan 2009 18:28 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of British Columbia researchers are offering the first compelling evidence to explain regular tremors under Vancouver Island…
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