Sentences with phrase «big quakes»

Just like the San Andreas fault was not built by industry and models do not accurately predict when, where and how big quakes will be.

It's still to be determined by experts believe big quakes occur in the same location more than once.

It also changes the odds: With more faults potentially acting together, there are more ways to assemble big quakes, increasing their likelihood.

Everything from big quakes to tiny tremors sends seismic waves echoing through Earth's interior.

The fault creates such big quakes because it is so long, says Jonathan Bathgate at Geoscience Australia in Canberra.

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be part of a pattern of big quakes around the world over the last decade, says Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz.

Although seismic predictions work on geologic timescales and can miss big quakes by decades, one expert said last week that a temblor in Port - au - Prince was of greater concern than a San Andreas slip

Many geological atlases chart the world's major faults and pinpoint where big quakes have struck in the last century or longer.

Indeed, Ecuador and Japan have reported tremors in the days following the big quakes.

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

Simply put, the law states that within a region, the bigger the quake, the less likely its occurrence.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

A surprisingly big quake arrives where smaller ones were expected, as in Japan; an unseen fault breaks far from obviously dangerous faults, as in New Zealand.

Given that the last big quake was 312 years ago, one might argue that a very bad day on the Cascadia Subduction Zone is ominously overdue.

«The trench may be perfectly capable of much bigger quakes,» says Lin, «but our records are just too short to detect them.»

«If we see large static displacement, we know it is a big quake,» says Richard Allen, director of the seismology laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

It also says that there was nothing unusual about the seismicity preceding this week's event that could have indicated a big quake was on the way.

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

In recent years, seismologists have realized that the biggest quakes can trigger more quakes thousands of kilometers away, but these are typically small and often located at hot springs or volcanic areas already prone to small quakes.

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Director: Brad Peyton Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandria Daddario, Hugo Johnstone - Burt, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Will Yun Lee and Paul Giamatti Plot: The biggest quake to ever hit America rocks California and a family, struggling over a recent divorce, are trapped in the middle of it.

You don't want to find yourself with nothing if the next big quake to strike Nevada levels your home.

I haven't read much on the matter recently but from what I see, the Northridge earthquake in 1994 severely damaged 20 hospitals, and California state law currently «requires major hospitals to be able to withstand a big quake by 2013.

The Andaman Islanders did even better in the 2004 quake, and the previous big quake was hundreds of years prior.

One pattern: Villages tended to be situated on the coast, for the convenience of easy access to marine resources, until some year when the seismically active region was rocked by a big quake and tsunami.

Over all, Japanese officials point to substantial progress in the country's effort to reduce vulnerability before the next big quake.

This is a very big deal when anticipating very big quake; billions of dollars are still being spent reinforcing concrete buildings after lessons were learned from the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

The last thing you want to worry about as you lead your family to safety during the next big quake is if your insurance policy will help you rebuild.

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.

But occasionally, when a big quake hits, the damage can be severe.

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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.

In California not too long ago, a magnitude 4.8 quake struck near the southern San Andreas, the biggest so close to the fault in the history of seismic recording.

If the coastline had slumped in river mouths and bays that were many miles apart, the quakes must have been very big.

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.

An imminent swarm of tiny quakes beneath western North America could help seismologists prepare for a big one — but only if they can learn to interpret the tremors, finds Naomi Lubick.

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

That would be a big improvement over the warnings issued after last year's Tohoku quake, which Japanese officials initially put at magnitude 8.

In fact, this region represents the single greatest geophysical hazard to the continental United States; quakes centered here could register as hundreds of times more damaging than even a big temblor on the San Andreas Fault.

The big question is how much damage a quake of that size could do to Bangladesh, which sits atop a layer of sediment about 12 miles thick.

By watching a Turkish fault after a deadly 1999 quake, geologists have pieced together a detailed picture of creeping fault movement after a big shake - up.

In particular, they found that big, destructive quakes may have a better chance of occurring offshore of Washington and northern Oregon than farther south along the subduction zone — although any large quake would impact the surrounding area.

A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be linked to compact sediments along large portions of the subduction zone.

Walsh and his adviser, geophysicist Mark Zoback, studied three areas in the central and northern part of the state that have seen the biggest rise in quakes.

Calais spoke with ScienceInsider about his work, his discoveries about the quake, and why an even bigger one could be on the horizon for Haiti:

These three swarms seem to have prepared the subduction zone to rupture in the big 1 April quake, says Onno Oncken, a geophysicist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.

Subduction zones are noted for producing some of the biggest earthquakes — the 2004 Indian Ocean quake also arose from a subduction zone.

«With a subduction fault, you get a much larger locked area, so the quakes can be much bigger,» says geophysics professor Mark Zoback of Stanford University.

The biggest natural disaster in human history took place on January 23, 1556, in Shanxi Province, China, when a quake killed 830,000 people.