Sentences with phrase «about the earthquake strike»

Where was science to forewarn people about the earthquake strike in the east coast this past week?

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But there are also the moments of tragedy — someone we love dies of cancer, there is an appalling airplane crash, we hear about a devastating earthquake or a tidal wave, famine strikes some part of the world — when any man or woman who is at all sensitive will admit that this is not «a nice world» but rather is filled with tragedy, sadness, and pain.

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.

* The earthquake struck around 10 P.M. local time about 50 kilometers east of Oklahoma City, and was felt from Saint Louis to Dallas.

, a vocal opponent of nuclear power, saw Jaczko's statement as a welcome response to his concerns about the ability of the AP1000 to survive a major earthquake, hurricane or earthquake strike, and as evidence of NRC's closer scrutiny of safety issues following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

When the earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011, Japan had 54 operating nuclear reactors which produced about one - third of its electricity supply.

No injuries were immediately reported from either Saturday's quake or the more significant earthquake that struck Friday evening outside La Habra, California, which is about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

The Met Office said on Sunday a magnitude 5.3 earthquake at 5 kilometres (3 miles) depth had struck after midnight while another, with a magnitude of about 5, had occurred some five hours later.

The earthquake struck at 2:54 a.m. local time about 97 miles (156 km) west of Juneau.

Producing a clear message about seismic risk remains a major challenge, Mulargia says, given that scientists are still unable to predict when, where, and with what strength the next earthquake will strike.

This earthquake struck about 100 kilometres south of the main earthquake's epicentre.

In a series of models, Grilli and his former doctoral student Jeff Harris worked backwards in time to recreate the movement of the seafloor from the earthquake and concluded that an additional movement underwater about 100 kilometers north of the earthquake's epicenter must have occurred to propagate the large waves that struck Sanriku.

That's why you probably don't think much about a major earthquake striking Manhattan or a tsunami battering the Oregon coast, even though each has happened and will probably happen again.

Anyone who is active in tsunami hazards would had known that far smaller earthquakes than the one that struck Japan generate waves producing inland flooding of up to six meters height about once every two years, on average, somewhere in the world.

Technically you could say the same thing about an asteroid strike, an earthquake (the SF big one?)

One striking fact about the increase in daily earthquakes here in Oklahoma (which prompted speculation that fracing caused quakes,) is that the region experiencing those daily quakes has moved from an apparent epicenter a few miles East and NorthEast of centrally located Oklahoma City, to many miles North and Northwest of OKC.

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