Sentences with phrase «before quake»

No one can be sure when the next big quake will occur, but with New York earthquake insurance, you can protect your investments before a quake hits.

At the top of this post you can click on a short video I shot of action around Istanbul to cut risks before the quake hits.

Tom was very inventive when it came to ROTT's multiplayer modes and maps, long before Quake was released.

Commercially, the first FPS's published with multiplayer - only maps at launch were Tom Hall's Rise of the Triad (ROTT) and Bungie's Marathon, both published on December 21, 1994 — 18 months before Quake's release.

County officials had taken action several days before the quake hit.

Hugo Johnstone - Burt has a winning presence as Ben, the hunky Brit that Blake meets a few moments before the quake, but his character amounts to nothing.

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.

According to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Gargarella said that the seven defendants had supplied «imprecise, incomplete and contradictory information,» in a press conference following a meeting held by the committee 6 days before the quake.

Before the quake, that fractured region had already been weakened by pressurized fluids mixed in with the rock, the researchers propose online January 8 in Science Advances.

Stanford scientists have found evidence that sections of the fault responsible for the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake that devastated northern Japan in 2011 were relieving seismic stress at a gradually accelerating rate for years before the quake.

That's why there are so many reports of dogs barking immediately before a quake.

Since new capacity likely will eventually make up for this shortfall, we think the 7 % drop in the Topix (Japanese stock market index) from March 10 to April 1 seems excessive (never mind the almost 18 % drop from March 10 to March 15), especially since we viewed Japanese companies, in general, to be inexpensive even before the quake.

Bar Duomo, which opened just a month ago, is the only bar or restaurant in the square which used to teem with life before the quake struck on April 6, 2009.

Not exact matches

The survey is meant to identify buildings that might need to be strengthened before the next big quake.

That «the earth shall quake before us (massive earthquakes) and that the heavens shall tremble, and the sun and moon will be dark and even the stars won't shine» --(Joel 2:10).

I'd be a bit more concerned with getting the South Anna and Calvert Cliffs nuclear plants «quake - approved» before some old church.

But biblical fear is not the fear that a child might have quaking before an angry parent.

You sailed four times before you could give up your native town for good and the stone house that had withstood floods and the ruinous quake.

The mountains quaked before the LORD, yon Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel» (Judges 5:4 - 5).

Indeed the Earth (or mankind) did quake in a way it had never before been shaken.»

The night before the Vancouver game, two of the Quakes» best players — Paul Child, a 21 - year - old forward from England, and Archie Roboostoff, who, despite his Russian name, is a native - born American — demonstrated soccer techniques in a shopping center modestly described by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce as the biggest in the world.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

The Quakes have played only two league games in the first month of the season, winning at home against Minnesota United before falling on the road at Sporting Kansas City.

That's because at seismometers closer to a massive quake's epicenter, the slowly moving vibrations of typical seismic waves often arrive at instruments before Earth's tectonic slabs have stopped shifting, thus masking the signals generated by the temblor's final spasms.

Earthquake warning systems face a tough trade - off: To give enough time to take cover or shut down emergency systems, alerts may need to go out before it's clear how strong the quake will be.

Before a crowd of cameras, the mayor lauded GHI's results and announced a new quake - response office.

The short answer is they didn't look far enough back in geologic time to see that quakes and tsunamis just this big had indeed occurred there before.

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

The quake struck shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday, about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, at a depth of about 71 miles (114 km), the USGS said.

In California, such a network might be able to identify intense quakes and give surrounding areas a few seconds of warning, allowing people to seek cover before the seismic waves hit.

For locations far from a large quake's origin, waiting for clear signs of risk before sending an alert may mean waiting too long for people to be able to take protective action.

Now we have tantalising evidence that it may be possible to build a system to warn of some large quakes in the minutes before they strike.

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

By tracking temperatures for one to three years — much longer than has been attempted before — researchers should be able to calculate the total amount of heat that was generated by the quake.

In 2008, researchers examining data from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth reported detectable changes in the way seismic waves traveled through fault rock in the hours before two quakes.

He has reportedly claimed to develop radon - monitoring devices that can give the precise location and magnitude of a future quake, hours or more before it occurs.

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.

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.

In the months before the big quake, a series of smaller tremors jostled central Italy.

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.

No quakes were detected during the 10 days before the double landslide.

Before 2008 the state averaged one such quake a year.

As a result of the quake, a 2,000 - cubic - kilometer section of the southeast side of the volcano moved seaward, achieving a maximum speed of six centimeters a day before coming to rest.

It will extend the country's monitoring capabilities out to where the most powerful quakes are born, buying perhaps another 10 precious seconds of warning before shaking starts or a tsunami floods the coast.

«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.

Before the 1 April quake, she thought that the northern Chile seismic gap would rupture either to the north or to the south of the Pisagua area, but not right through it.

As researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Universidad de Chile have now published in the journal Geophysical Journal International, part of the energy of the 2016 quake apparently dates back to before 1960.

«We should not wait until another major quake before improving the early warning system,» said Kuyuk.

Measurements made before and after the quake show subtle changes in the local gravity field, the European Space Agency said last week.

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.