Sentences with phrase «after a quake of»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

Hull were well worth their point at Stamford Bridge last Saturday and future opponents of the Blues won't be quaking in their boots after they took 75 minutes to find a breakthrough against Watford.

Ivan Toplak, the coach of the Quakes, returned to the club after the World Cup competition in Germany, where he was first assistant to the head coach of the Yugoslav national team.

After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast quakes — they settled on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage even well - built structures.

This long period of «afterslip» compares to just a year of afterslip for a similar magnitude quake in Napa, California in 2014, demonstrating large variation in fault behavior after earthquakes.

By contrast, nearly all of the predicted afterslip for the Napa quake was completed a year after the mainshock.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

After reviewing a 30 - year catalogue of events, they found no significant evidence that large quakes regularly trigger tectonic activity 1000 kilometres or more away.

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.

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

After the Wenchuan quake, the southern part of the Longmenshan fault became the fault with the greatest potential for a quake.

Although many of those quakes triggered local aftershocks in the day or so after the initial event, Parsons and Velasco found no corresponding increase in the frequency of distant quakes with magnitudes ranging between 5 and 7.

But after the Alaska earthquake network's hardware was upgraded in 2007, the number of ice - quakes picked up by the sensors increased.

Seismic activity at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano eased slightly overnight after a series of large quakes and there were still no signs of an eruption, the country's Met Office said early on Monday.

The residents of India and Sri Lanka had almost two hours to move to higher ground after seismographs first registered the quake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, but because those regions lacked a warning system, tens of thousands perished.

By watching a Turkish fault after a deadly 1999 quake, geologists have pieced together a detailed picture of creeping fault movement after a big shake - up.

At the original trial, many witnesses described how their loved ones had been persuaded to stay indoors after De Bernardinis told a journalist, during a now infamous interview ahead of the commission's meeting, that the ongoing tremors were favorable because they discharged energy and therefore made a larger quake less likely.

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.

An analysis of buildings tagged red and yellow by structural engineers after the August 2014 earthquake in Napa links pre-1950 buildings and the underlying sedimentary basin to the greatest shaking damage, according to one of six reports on the Napa quake published in the March / April issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

The seven experts sit on the nation's major risks committee, and were probed by L'Aquila prosecutors after members of the public complained that it was the committee's reassurances that persuaded them not to leave their homes ahead of the quake.

After investigating seismic waves observed during the earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk, the researchers found the initial quake triggered four other powerful shocks, one of magnitude 7.8, one of magnitude 8.0 and two of magnitude 7.9.

Many interplate tremors arrive after some low - level shaking, detectable by worldwide arrays of sensors, but intraplate quakes usually do not.

Six seismologists and a public official in Italy were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in 2012 after underestimating earthquake risk before a magnitude 6.3 quake hit the city of L'Aquila in April 2009.

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

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

«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.

The app records accelerometer data continually, and after a confirmed earthquake will also send five minutes of data to the researchers, starting one minute before the quake and ending four minutes after.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters)- Seismic activity at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano eased slightly overnight after a series of large quakes and there were still no signs of an eruption, the country's Met Office said early on Monday.

However the largest quake, which had a magnitude of 3.9, struck on 23 January 2015 — 2 weeks after fracking had been completed.

A network of seismometers around the volcano indicated that the ground started shaking about an hour after the Sumatran quake — due to surface waves traveling along Earth's crust.

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

* Update, 3 April, 11:05 a.m.: On the evening of 2 April, after this story was posted, two more large quakes occurred within the Iquique seismic gap.

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

For about 40 seconds after the earthquake, seismic waves from the quake were trapped within the basin and continued to reverberate, ringing like a bell with a frequency of five seconds.

The largest number of phones to record a quake was 103, after the 5.2 magnitude quake that occurred on the San Jacinto fault near Borrego Springs in San Diego County on June 10.

«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.

G - FAST was able to provide magnitude estimates between 40 to 60 seconds after the origin time of all three quakes, providing magnitude estimates that were within 0.3 units of the known magnitudes.

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.

The problem with Quake 4 is that, for the most part, the single player mode suffers from the same simplicity as «Doom 3» - random shooting through a maze of «appeasing - at - first, but - boring - after - the - 100th - time» environments.

Peyton throws in a second quake and a tsunami, but after a while buildings tumbling into the ocean are just a bunch of pixels turning everything into visual mush and leaving audiences in a digital stupor.

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.

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After rescuing his soon - to - be ex-wife, Anna (Carla Gugino), from a crumbling building in Los Angeles, the pair heads to San Francisco to save their daughter before she becomes another victim of the devastating quake.