Sentences with phrase «by huge earthquakes»

The once peaceful village of Hawksworth was being torn apart by huge earthquakes.

«It would be a great disservice to society if we did not learn as much as possible from the fault zone heated by this huge earthquake,» says Kiyoshi Suyehiro, president and chief executive of the management group of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

Below is a memo freshly filed by Salman Masood, a stringer for The Times who kindly caught the final day of the three - day International Conference on School Safety held in Islamabad, Pakistan, a four - hour drive from the region shattered in October, 2005 by huge earthquake.

Not exact matches

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

I'm guessing the day (21st) will start with a huge solar flare, followed by various earthquakes, tsunami's & general natural disasterish happenings....

In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one - two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami — a disaster unlikely to occur in many locations — it revealed technical and institutional weaknesses that must be fixed around the world.

The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake and tsunami were remarkable in many regards, including the rupturing of shallow trench sediments with huge associated slip (see the Perspective by Wang and Kinoshita).

And the fault should fail segment by segment in large but not huge earthquakes.

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.

So, says Seth Stein, a geophysicist at Northwestern University, «a «large» earthquake close by does more damage than a «huge» one a little further away».

Right now scientists understand far too little about Earth's inner motions to make reliable earthquake forecasts, and the cost of an unreliable forecast could be huge: Millions of dollars of business would be lost by shutting down San Francisco for a week awaiting a temblor that might never arrive.

It is more of a hill that was wrecked by an earthquake in the 80's leaving a huge hole in the center.

Sure enough, according to the USGS study, «Oklahoma is by far the worst - hit state recently... [t] he state last year had more magnitude 3 (or higher) earthquakes than California, part of a huge increase recorded in recent years.»

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.