News tagged with slip events

New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica

After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula. These findings ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Feb 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 1

Research links seismic slip and tremor, with implications for subduction zone

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 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 two weeks or more, releasing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 29, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 1