On Sunday, six
days after a quake in China's Sichuan province that killed 50,000 people, the Beijing Olympic organizing committee said the relay would be halted during a national mourning period that began on Monday.
In the first picture of its kind, scientists photographed these «airglow» ripples as they washed over Hawaii
hours after the quake.
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.
Epidemiologists Linus Bengtsson and Xin Lu from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden wanted to figure out where people
went after the quake.
Despite billions of dollars worth of damage in many parts of Chile, people in major population centers like Santiago, which enforces a strict set of modern building codes, fared much like the Hashrocket
employees after the quake.
April 26, 2018, Lady Freethinker This Mexican School was reduced to
rubble after the quake - but volunteers are helping build it again
North America's biggest city has the unusual ability to amplify earthquakes
long after the quake has dissipated.
This was about chronicling their
life after the quake, what they went through, recording their day - to - day life experiences — while the rest of the world moved on, they were still rebuilding.
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.
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.
«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.
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.
If you missed it, here's my initial post,
shortly after the quake struck, noting that the entire Himalayan region faces an extraordinary danger from the conjunction of relentless tectonic activity, rapid population growth and vulnerable construction.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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It will be the first time that researchers have drilled into an underwater fault
soon after a quake.
The second took place in 2004
after a quake of magnitude 9.1, also in Sumatra, 8000 kilometres away.
After the quake, the country changed its building regulations and pushed for better design and materials.
After the quake, the whale continues with its song.Both whale and quake can be heard on the recording.
When he combined the 1899 and 1936 surveys, he had data from before and
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.
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.
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.
«For the first 24 hours
after the quake I was beside myself suffering for my friends and the country of Nepal that I so love,» he said.
«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.
More than 20,000 people died, most as a result of the tsunami that hit the coastline a half - hour
after the quake.
But «there is less money available to prevent disasters than there is to respond to them,» Hausler Strand admits, noting that Build Change raised more money for Nepal in three days
after the quake than it did to retrofit Guatemalan schools over the past three months.
After the quake, the work seems even more important.
Coming from the opposite direction, a second set of waves from the east hit the array 2 hours
after the quake.
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.