Sentences with phrase «after quake»

Still, most foundations are built from concrete, masonry products, or rock held together with cement, so they can be at risk for damage after a quake of any magnitude.

Images from the European Space Agency show that icebergs, some larger than Manhattan island, broke away from Antarctica just a few days after the quake.

A new building in Wellington constructed to these standards was condemned after a quake of lesser magnitude occurred many km away.

Rebuilding is only just beginning after the quake destroyed over 700,000 houses in Nepal last year, reports Ramesh Bhushal

After the quake, I spoke to my colleague and friend from Chendu, who was visiting Mianyang University where I serve as an honorary professor.

After the quake, we heard people's accounts and they told us they changed their behaviour following the advice of the commission.

When the grid went offline after the quake, even in the capital the only public lights that stayed on were the new solar street lamps.

Here some were used in Kathmandu on the first night after the quake struck.

The earthquake created acoustic and Rayleigh waves that moved up into the ionosphere within 10 minutes after the quake.

This three - story home was put up after the quake but is already slated for demolition to make way for an 18 - unit housing project.

MUNAL closed earlier today after the quake, but has not yet said whether it will reopen today.

For his first exhibition at White Cube in 2009, Zhang Huan created an installation and series of paintings based on a renowned survivor of the recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China, a pig that lived, trapped, for 49 days after the quake, surviving on rainwater, rotten wood and a small amount of foraged feed.

After the Quake II engine was released, Epic Games released its Unreal Engine and got 3D Realms thinking, as they were struggling a lot with the Quake II engine.

Published reports indicate that seven other hotels were temporarily closed after the quake.

Also by Haruki Murakami from Vintage International: After The Quake; Dance Dance Dance; The Elephant Vanishes; Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Norwegian Wood; South of the Border, West of the Sun; Sputnik Sweetheart; Underground; Vintage Murakami; A Wild Sheep Chase; The Wind - Up Bird Chronicle.

After the quake, an affluent couple wait for word of their missing son; needing to pay for repairs to their ruined three - story home, they move into the servants» quarters and sublease the rest of the house to an aid worker, who then becomes embroiled in local class warfare.

That's reflected in the sales data, as Media Create today released its retail figures for the first full week after the quake, showing a sharp dip in hardware and software sales.

The observatory is studying physical and mechanical properties of rocks before, during and after a quake; physical and chemical changes in the earth's crust that occur during an earthquake; and temperature change that impels melting of rocks.

Rubble from damaged buildings and other structures remained on the streets even when this photo was taken, nearly a year after the quake on Dec. 30, 2010.

«If it's been a long time since a large earthquake, then, even after another quake happens, the fault's «memory» sometimes isn't wiped out, so there's still a good chance of having another,» said Seth Stein, the study's senior author and the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Epidemiologists Linus Bengtsson and Xin Lu from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden wanted to figure out where people went after the quake.

Coming from the opposite direction, a second set of waves from the east hit the array 2 hours after the quake.

After the quake, the work seems even more important.

It takes 3 hours for surface seismic waves to circle the earth: coming from Japan, the high intensity waves hit USArray from the west an hour after the quake.

Measurements made before and after the quake show subtle changes in the local gravity field, the European Space Agency said last week.

Right after the quake, the drilling crew clambers down from the work platform and sits in the shade while safety inspectors climb the rig to look for cracks.

More than 20,000 people died, most as a result of the tsunami that hit the coastline a half - hour after the quake.

«It reveals how the stress is dissipated after the quake, because we can measure all the aftershocks and all the afterslips.»

«We've been able to measure displacement of earth before and after the quake,» says Andreas Rietbrock of the University of Liverpool, UK, the head of the European team involved in the project.

Researchers rushed to the building the morning after the quake to wade through chemical - laced water and salvage cell cultures, enzymes, antibodies, and other frozen samples and reagents, bringing some home to their kitchen freezers.

In that year more than 100 people died after a quake near the city of Bingöl.

In fact, Michael Blanpied, an associate coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, explained in a podcast recorded hours after the quake, the two plates are «shearing the island, crushing it, grinding it.»

When Martin Landrø, a geophysicist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), read about the Japanese earthquake and learned that his Japanese counterparts had collected seismic data from both before and after the quake, he thought he might be able to offer some help.

The 4,312 landslides that happened within six weeks after the quake were far fewer than occurred after similar - magnitude quakes in other mountainous areas.

The situation began to deteriorate soon after the quake on 11 March.

It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault soon after a quake.

To investigate the effects of the disaster on residents, the researchers recruited 42 of their earlier subjects for magnetic resonance imaging scans 3 to 4 months after the quake.

After the quake, the whale continues with its song.Both whale and quake can be heard on the recording.

After the quake, the country changed its building regulations and pushed for better design and materials.

Year After Quake, Napa's Wine Industry Healthy: In the immediate aftermath of last August's earthquake in Napa, photographs quickly circulated of shattered wine racks, toppled barrels and what looked like an endless river of spilled red wine...

They have some new ones up of the country one week after the quake devastated the country...

April 26, 2018, Lady Freethinker This Mexican School was reduced to rubble after the quake - but volunteers are helping build it again

But because of imprecise, unstable instruments, scientists could monitor these changes only with the aid of long records before and after quakes.

Not exact matches

Then you must be quaking in your snow boots after the news agencies reported the recent catastrophic predictions of Duetsche Bank.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

After each startup has presented, the top - performing companies, as determined by our investor panel, will advance to a final round where they will be eligible for $ 150,000 in funding from Quake ($ 3.75 M valuation cap) and early acceptance into Quake's accelerator program in any geographic location.

After all we are lead to believe by some religious «leaders» that earth quakes and tsunamis are sent and kill thousands for just a simple thing as embracing gay folks.

Shortly after the Japanese quake and tsunami, the governor of Tokyo said publicly that the disaster was divine punishment for Japanese egoism, though he apologized for the remarks a day later.

After all, the Quakers received their name because they «quaked» as the Holy Spirit came upon them.

The quake opened graves and the saints of Israel's past awoke from their sleep, and, after the Resurrection, walked the streets of Jerusalem and were seen by many people.