News tagged with slip
Earthquakes generate big heat in super-small areas: study
Most earthquakes that are seen, heard, and felt around the world are caused by fast slip on faults. While the earthquake rupture itself can travel on a fault as fast as the speed of sound or better, the fault ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2011 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Study investigates the cost effectiveness of spinal surgery
Back pain affects more than 80 percent of people and costs more than $100 billion annually in the U.S. But is the surgery cost effective? A study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center suggests that for patients ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 29, 2008 |
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