Sentences with phrase «when quake»

If you are outdoors when the quake strikes, move away from buildings, poles, streetlights and utility wires and drop to the ground until the shaking completely stops

Educating yourself on how to gather earthquake preparation supplies, along with having an emergency plan for when a quake strikes, is crucial.

Three of Fukushima Daiichi's six Boiling Water reactors, and the four reactors nearby at Daini 200 miles or so north of Tokyo, were evidently in operation when the quake hit, at which point, WNN reported, they shut down automatically and commenced removal of residual heat with the help of emergency diesel generators.

Was wandering when quake demolished temples before my eyes.

when the quake struck.

(I posted on Twitter when that quake occurred.)

When Quake Champions comes to Early Access, it will also have a new update which adds two new maps, the Rune Challenge system, unique skins upon discovering ten different lore pieces for a Champion and other features like tutorials and in - game voice chat.

Whilst it is an absolute beauty of a game, I did notice that when the quake power - up is used, the frame rate really drops.

One of the Americans who was there when the quake hit was Dan Woolley, a director of Compassion International.

In LA, Ray's almost - degree - nisi wife Emma (Carla Gugino) is having lunch at a high - storey hotel when the quake hits.

The biggest natural disaster in human history took place on January 23, 1556, in Shanxi Province, China, when a quake killed 830,000 people.

Moffat was at a meeting in Portland, Oregon, with Chilean colleagues when the quake struck.

A restoring force provided by the building's own self - weight and post-tensioning strands enables the building to return to plumb when the quake has subsided.

When a quake strikes, the sensors can detect precisely how much the crust has moved.

Although the study did not address when the quake might occur, it's possible it could register a magnitude of 8.2 or higher.

It covered all the major details — when the quake hit, its magnitude and how far it spread.

Can't recall the numbers, but they were well over their design goal for withstanding an earthquake of magnitude «n» when the quakes hit, and they stood up fine (to the earthquakes, not the tsunami, of course).

Not exact matches

«My two children were sleeping when the house started to collapse because of the quake.

«O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil — to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence!

When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

Never more evident is the usefulness of our particular congregation than when a community quakes from the faults of ancient ethnic tectonic plates pushing just below the surface of our culture.

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinWhen we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinwhen we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

wow what a waste of time all in the end when earthquakes and floods and famine increase, people will be just people cold hungry homeless afraid bitter sick hopelessness.what a crazy cycle huh global people billions of people in super earth Quakes that are comeing too Shake Islands forever in the seas underwater

The ground does not quake when Hades shifts.

And when you have the most desirable company of the most loved person of your life, no shake or quake can make your roots weak.

In fact, when asked about this year's challenge he quaked with fear and said «This is the worst time of the year for me...» So, if worst comes to worst, we'll be donating Tom a stick on moustache at the end of the month.

Yes, Rudi Garcia's offense can pass, hold and move, but when we consider how (relatively) poor they are at actually creating chances, it should come as no surprise that Roma hasn't exactly left opposing keepers quaking in their boots.

But his unquestionable integrity quakes and vibrates, like when you roll a vessel filled to the brim — the telling opposite of the grating and scraping, of rolling an empty one!

The 6.3 magnitude quake hit at lunchtime, when the city was at its busiest, and was shallow enough to cause severe devastation.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

As the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid quakes approaches, the local population is arguably no better prepared than it was in 1811, when Missouri and Arkansas were not yet even states.

Scientists had three or four seismographs positioned at the epicenter of the earthquake when it occurred, and another 25 to 30 will be deployed there now or soon to study aftershocks and locate the November 5 quake's origin more precisely.

Instead of giving the year or range of years when the next quake will strike a particular segment of fault, they express it as a probability.

When a devastating megaquake rocked the region north of Tokyo in March, nobody saw such a huge quake coming.

No one really understood how the loose landfill would react to major earthquakes until 1985, when a magnitude - 8 quake struck the coast along the same plate boundary as Tuesday's quake.

So the scientific world quaked last August when Wilson renounced the theory that he had made famous.

It was a similar story in 2007, when the Kashiwazaki - Kariwa plant in western Japan was rocked by a magnitude - 6.6 quake, and last year, when a magnitude - 5.8 quake hit less than 20 kilometres from the North Anna plant in Virginia.

The Assam quake ripped loose when the northern Oldham fault slipped, they report in the 12 April issue of Nature.

To the west, a huge swath of the fault remains locked and has been accumulating strain since 1505, when a much more massive magnitude 8.5 quake went off.

Because a quake's strength isn't clear at first rupture, emergency response managers face a choice when issuing warnings: Issue alerts early and often (left), which could provide as much as 48 seconds of warning that light shaking might occur but risk false alarms; or wait to issue alerts until the size of the quake is better known (right) but risk the warnings arriving too late — providing an 8 - second warning in this hypothetical case.

When the Pacific plate lunged beneath the islands in the first of those quakes, it left the oceanic crust under tension.

The academic community quaked last August when Harvard confirmed that it had found Marc Hauser, a cognitive scientist at the university, «solely responsible» for eight cases of scientific misconduct.

Estimating magnitude for larger quakes also takes more time, because the rupture of the fault lasts perhaps several seconds longer — a significant chunk of time when it comes to EEW.

It is unknown when — or if — the likelihood of Friday's quake triggering an event in Tokyo will decrease, says Oki.

After the 2008 Wenchuan quake, seismologists were primed with data to help predict where and when the next rupture might be in the region.

Dam Quake When plans for the dam were first approved in 1992, human rights activists voiced concern about the people who would be forced to relocate to make room for it.

Yet when an Italian commission was convened to assess the situation, one commission member — an engineer and government official — reassured residents that the small quakes were normal or even eased seismic strain.

So it was a surprise when a magnitude 4.1 «quake» struck Nuugaatsiaq, a tiny island off Greenland's west coast on 17 June.

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.