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  • Thumbnail for Intraplate earthquake
    rarely protected with seismic retrofitting, so large intraplate earthquakes can inflict heavy damage. Examples of damaging intraplate earthquakes are the...
    11 KB (1,277 words) - 04:33, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for New Madrid Seismic Zone
    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 (earthquakes...
    32 KB (3,763 words) - 09:20, 18 June 2024
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    Earthquake (redirect from Seismic activity)
    cities. The seismic activity of an area is the frequency, type, and size of earthquakes experienced over a particular time. The seismicity at a particular...
    81 KB (8,863 words) - 23:37, 29 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
  • Southern California Seismic Network uses this "magnitude" where the data fail the quality criteria. A special case is the Seismicity of the Earth catalog...
    53 KB (5,868 words) - 06:48, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seismicity of the New York City area
    Seismicity of the New York City area is relatively low. New York is less seismically active than California because it is far from any plate boundaries...
    22 KB (2,214 words) - 17:42, 4 June 2024
  • from induced seismicity can be assessed using similar techniques as for natural seismicity, although accounting for non-stationary seismicity. It appears...
    81 KB (8,869 words) - 12:30, 13 June 2024
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    Shengji (27 May 2020). "The 1922 Peninsula Malaysia Earthquakes: Rare Intraplate Seismicity within the Sundaland Block in Southeast Asia". Seismological Research...
    43 KB (4,825 words) - 09:08, 3 June 2024
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    Seismology (redirect from Seismic)
    studying earthquake history (e.g. historical and instrumental catalogs of seismicity) and tectonics to assess the earthquakes that could occur in a region...
    35 KB (3,997 words) - 03:15, 23 June 2024
  • Today threats exist throughout the country from both interplate and intraplate seismicity. Earthquakes are common in Ecuador. Near the Nazca subduction zone...
    21 KB (2,079 words) - 23:15, 15 June 2024
  • plate boundaries, these seismic occurrences can be differentiated by other means. Interplate earthquakes differ from intraplate earthquakes in that the...
    16 KB (1,208 words) - 21:55, 25 December 2022
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    with seismicity magnitude reaching 7 in an earthquake. Recently, 274 seismic events have been detected in 2004–2005. There is an intraplate seismicity gap...
    41 KB (4,011 words) - 01:04, 23 June 2024
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    the Pacific ring of fire. Zones of higher seismicity in the continental interior may be the site for intraplate earthquakes) and tend to be drawn as broad...
    10 KB (1,160 words) - 23:07, 6 March 2024
  • List of earthquakes in Malaysia (category Articles using abbreviated captions for seismic magnitude)
    Shengji Wei (2020). "The 1922 Peninsula Malaysia Earthquakes: Rare Intraplate Seismicity within the Sundaland Block in Southeast Asia". Seismological Research...
    6 KB (217 words) - 02:29, 30 August 2023
  • Earthquake prediction (category Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation)
    level of seismic progress. Typical applications are: great global earthquakes and tsunamis, aftershocks and induced seismicity, induced seismicity at gas...
    197 KB (22,927 words) - 06:31, 25 June 2024
  • Seismic intensity scales categorize the intensity or severity of ground shaking (quaking) at a given location, such as resulting from an earthquake. They...
    11 KB (1,127 words) - 10:45, 6 April 2024
  • seismic activity in the ETSZ is not known. The ETSZ is located far from edge of the North American Plate and represents a mid-continent or intraplate...
    5 KB (554 words) - 19:14, 19 June 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) - 04:29, 3 June 2024
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    P wave (redirect from P-wave (seismic))
    main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster than other seismic waves and hence are the first signal from...
    10 KB (1,050 words) - 18:26, 27 April 2024
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    Seismometer (redirect from Seismic station)
    less noisy and gives better records of some seismic waves.[citation needed] The foundation of a seismic station is critical. A professional station is...
    44 KB (5,546 words) - 02:37, 29 May 2024
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