Sentences with phrase «big earthquakes happened»

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.

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 model shows that clusters can occur on faults with long - term memory, so that even after a big earthquake happens, the chance of another earthquake can stay high.

Not exact matches

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.

plus living in CA people have me freaked out that any day now a huge earthquake can happen since we're due for a big one and the thought of her in another room if that happened scares the hell out of me.

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

«We can say «yes, there will be an earthquake, yes, it will be this big», but we can't say when it will happen.

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 ScienEarthquakes 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 Scienearthquakes because of a fast tectonic - plate collision, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Earthquakes are not rare in the eastern half of North America, and when big ones happen they are felt far and wide

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

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.

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.

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 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17306210?via%3Dihub) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/earth-and-planetary-sciencEarthquakes 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 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17306210?via%3Dihub) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/earth-and-planetary-sciencearthquakes because of a fast tectonic - plate collision, according to a new study (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17306210?via%3Dihub) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/earth-and-planetary-science-letters).

Sign up here and start meeting Atlanta singles today!The trouble with living in such a big city is that finding that one - in - a-million person who's just right for you can seem tricky.Only in the 70s the radiocarbon dating method determined the age of a throne found buried under the ash: the eruption should have happened in the 1456 BC.Infact this date matches with a hypothesis made by the greek geologist Angelo Galanopulos who analized some episodes of the Bible (The Three Days of Darkness, The Earthquakes, The Parting of the Red Sea) and came to the conclusion that around the 1456 BC a big volcanic eruption interested the Eastern Mediterranean.

That was the one big earthquake that happened during post, losing him, because he was everything.

2018 has been a shaky year so far.The biggest earthquake yet happened early Tuesday morning,... Read More

THE BIG PICTURE storm, earthquake & volcanic events come a lowerly 6th on the ladder of cause & effect & to study ocean temperature without finding out «why» under sea volcano eruptions happen isn't a sientific aproach in that book of mine.

the cause of the accident is the fact that the geopgysicist community (source SciAm in french version) in the 70s was feelin that this could not happens where it happend, because the rift / break (correct me, I'm alien) was supposed to glide nicely with small earthquake, and quakeless glide (assumed because ther was difference between earthequake constraints relaxed, and total constraint created by usual move)... after that, people discover that ther have been big tsunamis, big earthquake, and that the theory may be false... but the power plant was built on a pretend safe place, and not beeing sure of the new theory, not much was done to anticipate a huge tsunami.