WELLINGTON cheap jordan 11 low , Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Last November's 7.8-magnitude Kaikoura quake in New Zealand's South Island triggered a series of major slow-slip events, or "silent" earthquakes, beneath the east coast of the North Island, showed a new research from GNS released on Tuesday.
It was the largest and most widespread episode of slow-slip observed in New Zealand, since scientists first recognized this phenomenon under the seafloor east of Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island in 2002 http://www.cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.us/ , according to the paper published in Nature Geoscience by researchers from GNS Science.
Slow-slip events are very similar to earthquakes, as they involve more rapid than normal movement between two pieces of the Earth's crust along a fault. However, unlike earthquakes, where the movement occurs in seconds, movement in these "silent earthquakes" can take weeks to months to occur cheap air jordan free shipping , the paper explains.
According to the study's lead author and geophysicist, Laura Wallace of GNS Science, "This is probably the clearest example worldwide of large-scale slow slip being triggered over long distances by seismic waves from a large earthquake."
"One of the most intriguing factors is that the quake triggered slow-slip off the Gisborne coast, up to 600 km away from its epicenter in North Canterbury," Wallace said.
Seismologist Yoshihiro Kaneko cheap discount air jordan , of GNS Science, said the slow-slip was triggered by stress changes in the Earth's crust caused by passing seismic waves from the Kaikoura quake.
Kaneko said the study also suggested that the northward travelling rupture during the Kaikoura quake directed strong pulses of seismic energy towards the North Island, and this also influenced the long-distance triggering of the slow-slip events beneath the North Island.
The east coast slow-slip event was also responsible for sparking a series of small to moderate earthquakes off the east coast in November last year, Kaneko said.
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1999: Heilongjiang
2000-2001: Bayi
2002: Shandong
2003-2004: Guangdong
2005: Shaanxi
2006: Shaanxi
2007: Ningbo
2008: Shanghai
2009: Ningbo
2010: Shandong
2011: Zhejiang
2012: Ningbo
2013: Ningbo
2014: Shandong
2015: Ningbo
2016: Bayi
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OSLO, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Businesses and other bodies in Norway are expecting more cooperation with China as the two countries have decided to normalize relations after six years of frustrated ties.
"We have been hoping for improved political conditions between our two countries for many years," said Kristin Skogen Lund in a recent interview with Xinhua. Skogen is the director general of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), which is the country's major organization for employers and the leading business lobby.