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    Earthquake (redirect from Seismic activity)
    seismic energy release per unit volume. In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event that generates seismic waves...
    82 KB (8,916 words) - 15:29, 2 July 2024
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    The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes...
    32 KB (3,762 words) - 01:27, 14 July 2024
  • Induced seismicity is typically earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on Earth's crust. Most induced...
    81 KB (8,869 words) - 05:53, 12 July 2024
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    MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DMISA). Retrieved 7 January 2015. "SEISMIC STRESS TEST OF KOEBERG NPP". CKTI-Vibroseism Ltd. Retrieved 7 January 2015...
    20 KB (1,790 words) - 19:01, 8 April 2024
  • Coulomb stress transfer is a seismic-related geological process of stress changes to surrounding material caused by local discrete deformation events...
    9 KB (1,043 words) - 19:59, 13 August 2023
  • Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that...
    53 KB (5,868 words) - 06:48, 19 May 2024
  • make such structures more resistant to earthquakes. An earthquake (or seismic) engineer aims to construct structures that will not be damaged in minor...
    66 KB (7,152 words) - 21:43, 5 July 2024
  • Seismic moment is a quantity used by seismologists to measure the size of an earthquake. The scalar seismic moment M 0 {\displaystyle M_{0}} is defined...
    4 KB (474 words) - 21:41, 26 June 2024
  • Stress testing is a form of deliberately intense or thorough testing, used to determine the stability of a given system, critical infrastructure or entity...
    3 KB (2,712 words) - 02:34, 29 September 2023
  • around the magma has a change in stress. At some point, this stress can cause the rock to break or move. This seismic activity is used by scientists to...
    8 KB (968 words) - 08:48, 15 May 2024
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    A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...
    21 KB (2,384 words) - 21:00, 5 April 2024
  • the total seismic energy released around the world. If one plate is trying to move past the other, they will be locked until sufficient stress builds up...
    16 KB (1,208 words) - 21:55, 25 December 2022
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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...
    64 KB (8,327 words) - 03:14, 23 June 2024
  • Moment magnitude scale (category Articles using seismic moment M0)
    measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment. Mw  was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori...
    48 KB (5,981 words) - 06:50, 12 July 2024
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    K. (2015). "Coulomb stress evolution in the Shanxi rift system, North China, since 1303 associated with coseismic, post-seismic and interseismic deformation"...
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  • Sonic logging (redirect from Seismic log)
    confining stress. This means that a sonic log can be used to calculate the porosity, confining stress, or pore pressure of a formation if the seismic velocity...
    6 KB (941 words) - 15:01, 30 July 2022
  • Seismic anisotropy is the directional dependence of the velocity of seismic waves in a medium (rock) within the Earth. A material is said to be anisotropic...
    35 KB (5,684 words) - 05:49, 2 May 2024
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    stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake or other sudden change in stress condition, in which material that is...
    30 KB (3,637 words) - 00:29, 2 April 2024
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    The Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (also known as the Wabash Valley Fault System or Zone) is a tectonic region located in the Midwestern United States, centered...
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    repeatedly occur on the same fault as the result of continual stress accumulation and periodic stress release. Earthquake cycles can occur on a variety of faults...
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