But powerful earthquakes also can occur in intraplate fault zones, sometimes far from where tectonic plates meet. "We're not on a plate boundary here in Nevada," Bogolub explained. "But what we do ...

Meng: The earthquakes within the tectonic plate, we call them intraplate earthquakes. In these places, the plate boundary is very well-defined like on the West Coast, but on the East Coast ...

His rationale was that the the temblor was believed to be an oceanic intraplate earthquake. Yusuke Yamashita, an assistant professor of seismology with Kyoto University’s Research Center for ...

Mobile seismic stations are used to study: the structure of the lithosphere, spatial and temporal seismicity in intraplate settings especially in postglacial faults, the reasons behind periodic swarms ...