A seismic gap is a segment of an active fault known to produce significant earthquakes that has not slipped in an unusually long time, compared with other...
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Earthquake forecasting (section Seismic gaps)
assumptions about seismic gaps are now known to be incorrect. A close examination suggests that "there may be no information in seismic gaps about the time...
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drew the attention of seismologists as it was proposed as a seismic gap because no major seismic activity have occurred in recent times. The most recent events...
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San Jacinto Fault Zone (category Seismic faults of California)
Anza seismic gap, has not experienced any major activity since instrumental records have been kept. Each segment was evaluated for its seismic risk and...
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particular, the basic understanding of the seismicity there is still lacking. The observation of a seismic gap in the vicinity of the Istanbul metropolitan...
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Haiyuan Fault (category Seismic faults of Asia)
average slip rate along the Haiyuan Fault is 3.2–9 mm/yr. The Tianzhu seismic gap is a 260 km (160 mi) long, unruptured segment on the western end of the...
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1906 San Francisco earthquake (to the degree that it was designated a seismic gap) until two moderate foreshocks occurred in June 1988 and again in August...
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Earthquake prediction (category Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation)
assumptions about seismic gaps are now known to be incorrect. A close examination suggests that "there may be no information in seismic gaps about the time...
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dam's geological stability. The Tehri dam is in the Central Himalayan Seismic Gap, a major geologic fault zone. This region was the site of a 6.8 magnitude...
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2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes (section Seismicity)
devastating double earthquakes (6 February 2023) over a seismic gap: Implications for the seismic potential in the Eastern Mediterranean region". Journal...
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events have occurred since the 1555 earthquake in the 250-km-long Kashmir seismic gap on the Main Himalayan plate boundary fault. With a slip rate of 16 mm/yr...
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(2020-09-17). "Implications for megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis from seismic gaps south of Java Indonesia". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 15274. Bibcode:2020NatSR...
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Eissler, H (1987). "Source characteristics of earthquakes in the Michoacan seismic gap in Mexico" (PDF). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 77...
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Reflection seismology (redirect from Seismic reflection)
reflected seismic waves. The method requires a controlled seismic source of energy, such as dynamite or Tovex blast, a specialized air gun or a seismic vibrator...
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settlement typologies-based tsunami modeling along the northern Sumatra seismic gap zone for disaster risk reduction action plans". International Journal...
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been recognised as one of the major seismic gaps on the plate boundary, known as the "Northern Chile Seismic Gap". The Mw = 7.7 2007 Tocopilla earthquake...
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Chile Ridge (section Associated seismicity)
seismicity magnitude reaching 7 in an earthquake. Recently, 274 seismic events have been detected in 2004–2005. There is an intraplate seismicity gap...
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Masakazu (1995). "A seismic gap in the eastern margin of the Sea of Japan as inferred from the time-space distribution of past seismicity". The Island Arc...
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North Anatolian Fault (category Seismic faults of Turkey)
101802.120415. Caperton Morton, Mary (8 March 2010). "Closing Istanbul's seismic gap". earthmagazine.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved...
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conclude that this area remained unruptured during the event and remains a seismic gap. Others, especially ones written decades after the fact, conclude that...
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Seismic retrofitting is the modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to...
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in the past, such as the M 7.6 1911 Guerrero earthquake. The Guerrero seismic gap is a ca. 200 km long segment of the subduction interface, which has not...
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Sagaing Fault (category Seismic faults of Asia)
earthquake broke a segment south of the 1946 rupture. In 1991, a small seismic gap between the two 1946 ruptures generated an Mw 7.0 earthquake, partially...
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earthquake. This was broadly consistent with a slip on or near the Guerrero Seismic Gap, a boundary between the Cocos and North American plates along the Pacific...
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minutes later. In 2001, the Arica area was identified as forming part of a seismic gap between 15° and 24°S, with no major earthquake since 1877. In accordance...
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specifically in a section of the fault line known as the Michoacán seismic gap. The Cocos Plate pushes against and slides under the North American Plate...
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tsunami may have been caused by an earthquake that ruptured a present–day seismic gap on the plate boundary between the rupture zones of the 1833 and 1983...
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the segment of the plate boundary was known as the Nicoya Peninsula seismic gap. In the intervening period, up to 2010, there was an estimated 5 m of...
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including: acoustic, light, seismic, magnetic, thermal, and radio-frequency. From a security perspective, the main drawback of an air gapped network is the inability...
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Eastern margin of the Sea of Japan (category Seismic faults of Japan)
generate considerably large tsunamis. The 75 km (47 mi)-long Akita-oki seismic gap lies off the coast of Akita Prefecture. This plate-boundary segment is...
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