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motions on localized zones of deformation at tectonic plate boundaries. The underlying causes of aseismic creep are primarily attributed to poor frictional...5 KB (540 words) - 04:05, 4 November 2024
The Nazca plate or Nasca plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the...9 KB (989 words) - 22:28, 5 November 2024
than the rate of uplift. The collision of aseismic ridges and the axis of the trench explain how the plate curvature is evolving. Mariana Trench Mariana...9 KB (1,002 words) - 23:54, 22 October 2024
each other). Further downdip, there is a transition from fully locked to aseismic sliding. In 1999, a group of Continuous Global Positioning System sites...37 KB (4,063 words) - 20:06, 4 November 2024
Ring of Fire (category Plate tectonics)South American Plate; the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath the North American Plate; the Philippine Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate; and a complex...95 KB (9,606 words) - 03:18, 24 October 2024
Carnegie Ridge (category Tectonic plates)-83.0 The Carnegie Ridge is an aseismic ridge on the Nazca Plate that is being subducted beneath the South American Plate. The ridge is thought to be a...6 KB (803 words) - 20:57, 28 July 2024
Subduction (redirect from Plate subduction)convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic plate converges with a second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the other and sinks...67 KB (8,251 words) - 00:37, 10 October 2024
San Andreas Fault (section Plate boundaries)rest of the central section of the fault exhibits a phenomenon called aseismic creep, where the fault slips continuously without causing earthquakes....41 KB (4,290 words) - 18:29, 1 November 2024- discovered in 1999 when an aseismic event took place at the subduction interface wherein the overriding North American Plate slipped 2 centimeters south-west...37 KB (4,392 words) - 03:15, 23 June 2024
San Francisco, the central SAF segment near San Juan Bautista is where aseismic creep was first studied, and to the south is where the recurring Parkfield...29 KB (1,444 words) - 18:07, 17 October 2024
be favored at the moment. The subduction of bathymetric highs such as aseismic ridges, oceanic plateaus, and seamounts has been posited as the primary...29 KB (3,738 words) - 14:00, 7 April 2024
very soft mineral, thus facilitating easy slippage of plates. It has been hypothesized that aseismic creep at Hollister is also due to the presence of serpentinite...10 KB (846 words) - 19:34, 20 July 2024
is the cause of most earthquakes. Faults may also displace slowly, by aseismic creep. A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface...33 KB (3,711 words) - 01:23, 5 November 2024
Earthquake-resistant or aseismic structures are designed to protect buildings to some or greater extent from earthquakes. While no structure can be entirely...15 KB (1,577 words) - 00:42, 5 November 2024
Seychelles Microcontinent (redirect from Seychelles Plate)doi:10.1016/0037-0738(94)00127-G. Schlich, R. (1982). "The Indian Ocean: aseismic ridges, spreading centres and basins". The Ocean Basins and Margins. Vol...7 KB (685 words) - 03:15, 23 June 2024
episode of seismic and aseismic deformation of the Nankai trough subduction zone accretionary prism and incoming Philippine Sea plate, Earth and Planetary...20 KB (2,903 words) - 03:02, 16 September 2024
Under different conditions, stress can be released via rapid ruptures, aseismic slow slips, or earthquake swarms. Understanding the irregularity of these...19 KB (2,049 words) - 23:04, 28 July 2024
major aseismic ridge systems, Carnegie, Cocos and Malpelo which are on two tectonic plates. The hotspot is located near the Equator on the Nazca Plate not...15 KB (1,987 words) - 22:11, 30 July 2024
multiple names: authors list (link) Schlich, R. (1982). "The Indian Ocean: aseismic ridges, spreading centers, and oceanic basins". In Nairn, Alan E. M.; Stehli...3 KB (352 words) - 16:04, 3 February 2020- Oceanic trench (category Plate tectonics)headwalls and sidewalls. Subduction of seamounts and aseismic ridges into the trench may increase aseismic creep and reduce the severity of earthquakes. Contrariwise...48 KB (5,153 words) - 14:41, 22 October 2024
- passes through them before they begin to show its visible effects. A cheap aseismic house would be a low frame building supported by a number of slightly concave
- anything, they can tell us about plate tectonics. In several places the sea floor is scarred by what are known as aseismic ridges. These consist of a linear