Sentences with phrase «biggest earthquakes occur»

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

«Why do these big earthquakes occur?»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Most big Mexican earthquakes occur right along the interface between the colliding Cocos and North American plates.

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.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

But Cal Tech seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) predicts that an even bigger earthquake is going to occur along the San Andreas Fault, with San Francisco getting hit the hardest, placing Blake smack dab in the middle of the impending destruction.

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

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.