Sentences with phrase «big earthquake»

But the next big earthquake could be years or decades from now, he said.

Needless to say, it's a very big earthquake.

Bigger earthquakes generally create stronger shaking, but not all earthquakes of a given magnitude are created equal.

Big earthquakes affect larger areas than smaller ones, but don't necessarily knock down more buildings.

I hope residents in districts of the 1,000 schools known to be vulnerable to big earthquakes also work to make them safer, as well.

The odds of subsequent big earthquakes always go up after a major earthquake.

And whether it comes before the next big earthquake.

Just because we can't predict when the next big earthquake in California will occur, should we stop building earthquake - resistant buildings?

The bottom line, of course, as a 2011 report on earthquake resilience from the National Academies noted, is that it remains impossible to glean meaningful hints of big earthquakes from low - level seismic activity.

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

For example, during clusters on the San Andreas, big earthquakes happened only about 50 years apart, while the clusters are separated by several hundred years.

A new study suggests the next big earthquake on the Seattle fault may cause devastating damage from landslides, greater than previously thought and beyond the areas currently defined as prone to landslides.

The discovery helps solve a puzzle about plate tectonics and Earth's deep water cycle beneath the Pacific Ring of Fire, which scientists began studying in the 1960s to understand the region's propensity for big earthquakes and explosive volcanoes.

About 81 percent of the world's biggest earthquakes occur in that region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Earthquakes that happen in densely populated mountainous regions, such as the Himalaya, spell bigger earthquakes because of a fast tectonic - plate collision, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

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But given what we know about how big earthquakes are, while it's still possible to have a huge 9.0 magnitude earthquake, it's more likely that it'll be a smaller earthquake, still big, significant over 6.7 magnitude, almost certain to happen by 2038; but one thing [it won't do] is to reshape California's coast; it's not likely to [reshape] California, because it won't be as bad, I think, as people have anticipated.

Big earthquakes throw off vast amounts of energy.

In San Diego, California, a six - story tower riddled with strain gauges and accelerometers rises from the platform of one of the world's biggest earthquake machines.

For really big earthquakes, detecting the large, slow shaking is not as accurate for pinpointing the source and size of the quake.

«With the geological context in Nepal, this is a place where we expect big earthquakes.

What is certain is that studying these recent big earthquakes has given geophysicists the best information ever about how they work and point to new ways to begin understanding what could be in Cascadia's future.

Wastewater Injection Spurred Biggest Earthquake Yet, Says Study.

Bigger earthquake coming on Nepals terrifying faults.

Over many years, Wyss has provided emergency aid agencies and nonprofit groups with rapid initial death and damage estimates and maps in the hours or days following big earthquakes.

[The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History]

«From where will the next big earthquake hit the city of Istanbul?

Since earthquake seismology started after a large earthquake destroyed San Francisco in 1906, seismologists have usually assumed that when the next big earthquake will happen on a fault depends on the time since the last one happened.

Businesses can also take some tips from homeowners in preparing for a big earthquake — bolting shelves to walls, for example.

The photo gallery above is a reminder of both the might of Mother Nature and the potential danger of nuclear power, as well as a warning for what could happen the next time a big earthquake hits.

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We had some big earthquakes in New Zealand last night (no damage, just shaken up), I got up, saw your new recipe, and made myself a pot of hot chocolate... I'm feeling much better now!

The biggest earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma struck on November 5, a magnitude 5.6 temblor that buckled a highway and ruptured water pipes.

And although the biggest earthquake from wastewater injection was a 5.6 on the Richter scale, near Oklahoma City in 2011, scientists think that temblors as powerful as 7.0 — enough to cause fatalities and damage buildings across a wide area — are possible, though unlikely.

That could be as simple as a regularly updated website, which people could get familiar with well before a big earthquake strikes.

The work — the fruit of decades of intensive monitoring around Japan — gives seismologists a much - anticipated peek into a fundamental mystery: «How does a big earthquake happen?»

The biggest earthquake on record, a magnitude 9.5 quake in 1960, was on the same fault.

At first, the liberated water would have softened the material, actually decreasing the risk of a big earthquake by allowing it to absorb more force, Dugan says.

A big earthquake shakes a city.

A big earthquake raised the coast several meters in places, reversing recent years of beach erosion

«It's been difficult to get this measurement because the signal is weak and it dissipates over time, so we needed a big earthquake and a rapid response,» said Brodsky, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC.

Big earthquakes might cause leakage, but in many cases, they will not, Friedmann says.

The key question is what is the biggest earthquake that could occur in the area, Brodsky said.

«In 1899, there were two big earthquakes in a row, an 8.1 and an 8.2 magnitude, says Enkelmann pointing to a photo of the resulting shoreline lift that still stands today.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.