Tiny, silent earthquakes in seismically active areas may be auspices of destructive mega-earthquake, U.S. scientists reported on Wednesday. A team of geoscientists from the Stanford University is urging colleagues around the world to search for evidences of those earthquakes that produce no seismic waves. The so-called "aseismic earthquakes," silent temblors too slow to cause ground shaking, may be not so harmless. In fact, they can trigger swarms of tiny conventional temblors, the scientists said in the July 6 edition of the journal Nature..."Silent earthquakes have recently been discovered in subduction zones in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, Mexico and elsewhere, " said Paul Segall...Seismologists have estimated that mega-thrust events of Magnitude 8 or larger occur in Japan every 200 years or so...more...
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by Mulboyne » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:28 am
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[/floatr]People's Daily: Silent earthquakes may foreshadow large temblors
Tiny, silent earthquakes in seismically active areas may be auspices of destructive mega-earthquake, U.S. scientists reported on Wednesday. A team of geoscientists from the Stanford University is urging colleagues around the world to search for evidences of those earthquakes that produce no seismic waves. The so-called "aseismic earthquakes," silent temblors too slow to cause ground shaking, may be not so harmless. In fact, they can trigger swarms of tiny conventional temblors, the scientists said in the July 6 edition of the journal Nature..."Silent earthquakes have recently been discovered in subduction zones in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, Mexico and elsewhere, " said Paul Segall...Seismologists have estimated that mega-thrust events of Magnitude 8 or larger occur in Japan every 200 years or so...more...
Tiny, silent earthquakes in seismically active areas may be auspices of destructive mega-earthquake, U.S. scientists reported on Wednesday. A team of geoscientists from the Stanford University is urging colleagues around the world to search for evidences of those earthquakes that produce no seismic waves. The so-called "aseismic earthquakes," silent temblors too slow to cause ground shaking, may be not so harmless. In fact, they can trigger swarms of tiny conventional temblors, the scientists said in the July 6 edition of the journal Nature..."Silent earthquakes have recently been discovered in subduction zones in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, Mexico and elsewhere, " said Paul Segall...Seismologists have estimated that mega-thrust events of Magnitude 8 or larger occur in Japan every 200 years or so...more...
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