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  2. Supershear earthquake - Wikipedia

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    During seismic events along a fault surface the displacement initiates at the focus and then propagates outwards. Typically for large earthquakes the focus lies towards one end of the slip surface and much of the propagation is unidirectional (e.g. the 2008 Sichuan and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquakes ). [ 2 ]

  3. Geological event - Wikipedia

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    Event stratigraphy was first proposed as a system for the recognition, study and correlation of the effects of important physical or biological events on the broader stratigraphical record. [1] Seismite in Holocene sediments of the Dead Sea basin, Israel. This is a record of an earthquake (a geological event) that disturbed the strata.

  4. Age of Oil - Wikipedia

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    With the dawning of the so-called Atomic Age many observers in the mid-20th century believed that the Oil Age was rapidly coming to an end. [10] The rapid change to atomic power envisioned during this period never materialized, in part due to environmental fears following high-profile accidents such as the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima ...

  5. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made. Examples include: sunrise , weather , fog , thunder , tornadoes ; biological processes , decomposition , germination ; physical processes , wave propagation , erosion ; tidal flow , and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses , volcanic eruptions , hurricanes and ...

  6. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    A measure of the expectation that an event will occur or that a statement is true. Probabilities are given a value between 0 (will not occur) and 1 (will occur). The higher the probability of an event, the more certain one can be that the event will occur. probability distribution probability theory proton psi particle pulley

  7. Event (relativity) - Wikipedia

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    An event in the universe is caused by the set of events in its causal past. An event contributes to the occurrence of events in its causal future. Upon choosing a frame of reference, one can assign coordinates to the event: three spatial coordinates x → = ( x , y , z ) {\displaystyle {\vec {x}}=(x,y,z)} to describe the location and one time ...

  8. Event (particle physics) - Wikipedia

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    Because of the uncertainty principle, an event in particle physics does not have quite the same meaning as it does in the theory of relativity, in which an "event" is a point in spacetime which can be known exactly, i.e., a spacetime coordinate.

  9. Event (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    An event, however, is any subset of the sample space, including any singleton set (an elementary event), the empty set (an impossible event, with probability zero) and the sample space itself (a certain event, with probability one). Other events are proper subsets of the sample space that contain multiple elements. So, for example, potential ...