Sentences with phrase «after the quake struck»

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

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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.

A year after that tremor, Italian prosecutors charged six scientists and a public official with falsely assuring L'Aquila's residents that a quake was unlikely, just days before it struck and killed 309 people.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, agencies such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system already receive warnings from ShakeAlert, such as a 5 - second alert after the 6.0 magnitude quake that struck nearby Napa in August 2014.

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

Four - year - old Labrador pup named Tie Hsiung, whose name translates to «Iron Hero», set out on his first mission as a rescue dog to search for survivors after a shocking 6.4 magnitude quake struck the eastern city of Hualien, Taiwan, on 6 Feb (Tues), resulting in a death toll of 10 people.