Sentences with phrase «by quakes»

But the ancient island God is trapped in a restless sleep and the islanders are plagued by quakes and storms brought forth by its nightmares.

For example, aftershock sequences for quakes that occur at faults far from a tectonic plate boundary — such as the New Madrid Seismic Zone — often last much longer than those triggered by quakes near plate boundaries, says Seth Stein, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

They were able to do this because the offsets representing rock moved by quakes are cumulative: each new quake adds more distance.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Students at California State University, Northridge, ponder the destruction wrought by a quake on an unrecognized fault.

The clinching evidence for this was that cracks in Lajia created by the quake were filled with flood - related sediment, not the fine silt sediment deposited by annual rainwater runoff at the same site each year, showing that the flood sediment got there first, and so must have arrived within a year of the quake.

By tracking temperatures for one to three years — much longer than has been attempted before — researchers should be able to calculate the total amount of heat that was generated by the quake.

Almost all of the damage caused by the quake was done by the tsunami, he points out.

Two major nuclear power plants are at the heart of the crisis, both of which were hit by the quake and the tsunami.

In the case of the 2011 quake, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites orbiting Earth captured the significant ionospheric signature produced by the quake's infrasonic wave output.

It is also being used to help resettle the thousands of children orphaned by the quake.

Nearly 4,000 villages and cities have been affected by the quake, including this city of 30 million to the east of the epicenter.

After the immense damage and human suffering wrought by the quake and tsunami, he knows that this weekend's events have also given scientists like him an unprecedented opportunity to study how giant earthquakes occur.

Smartphones can easily measure movement caused by a quake because they have three built - in accelerometers designed to sense the orientation of the phone for display or gaming.

At least six power plants, including Dongfang Electric in the city of Deyang where building collapses killed at least 100 workers and trapped hundreds more, have been damaged by the quake, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.

As a result, Vice Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong is personally heading up the team that will assess dams in the four provinces affected by the quake.

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They are therefore very useful if your home is destroyed by a quake, but not so much if you experience a small crack in your home's foundation.

Joining Peter will be the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, as well as many of the volunteers and organizations helping to rebuild communities hardest hit by the quake.

Cube is very similar to Quake in many ways, and it is clearly inspired by Quake.

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«No worries», you'll think, before being hit by a quake from behind.

Our building luckily has not been affected by the quake and will probably resume normal activities Monday.

That won't do diddly if your car is damaged or destroyed by a quake.

Not exact matches

Fracking is part of the problem, but the report states that most human - induced quakes are caused by the oil and gas industry's use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater - the contaminated liquid that gets pumped out of the well during oil and gas extraction.

An earth quake in Papua New Guinea in February disrupted operations at Exxon's liquefied natural gas facility, reducing its quarterly earnings by $ 80 million.

Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or «new towns», with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake - proof platforms.

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Formed by Kagome Co., Ltd., Calbee, Inc., and ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., as a response to the quake, the fund provides scholarships for students like Endo who lost one or both parents due to the quake.

After each startup has presented, the top - performing companies, as determined by our investor panel, will advance to a final round where they will be eligible for $ 150,000 in funding from Quake ($ 3.75 M valuation cap) and early acceptance into Quake's accelerator program in any geographic location.

For example if your god actually existed wouldn't he protect his cathedral from damage by his earth quake?

After all we are lead to believe by some religious «leaders» that earth quakes and tsunamis are sent and kill thousands for just a simple thing as embracing gay folks.

A highly popular, widespread impression of Jonathan Edwards is the one expressed in verse by Phyllis McGinley: «Whenever Mr. Edwards spake / In church about Damnation, / The very benches used to quake / For awful agitation.»

You've got to be a true tin foil cap type to think that this wimpy quake was a message by god to «blue states».

What a Tamberlane is able to accomplish by means of his Huns, that Faust is able to accomplish by means of his doubt: to frighten men up in dismay, to cause existence to quake beneath their feet, to disperse men abroad, to cause the shriek of dread to be heard on all sides.

According to the written tradition, the first experiences that the liberated clans from Egypt had with him at Sinai were accompanied by thunderings and lightnings and the mountain's smoking — «the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.»

The quake opened graves and the saints of Israel's past awoke from their sleep, and, after the Resurrection, walked the streets of Jerusalem and were seen by many people.

They were assisted by very pretty red - clad, miniskirted girls who are members of the Shakers, the dancing squad that promotes the Quakes.

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.

with the fearsome prolific front line up of Giroud, Walcott and Sanogo am supremely confident we can win the treble... MSN and Barce should be quaking in their boots by now, be afraid, be very afraid, then SWG is coming for you lollll

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

If only they were / are more violent in their protest (not violent per say, i meant 100 % active enough to quake the Arsenal board), things coulda taken a better turn by the day....

If you go back to the start of last season, Wondolowski, bolstered by his MLS tying record of 27 goals in 2012 and his eight consecutive seasons scoring double digit goals, topped the Quakes goal efficiency list, but he's dropped to number three since then.

That same game plan was employed by Minnesota United in the Quakes home opener, and San Jose's total team effort to press the Loons and rotate possession through the attackers and midfielders was successful.

Stahre could try to get more attacking midfielders on the field by introducing Jahmir Hyka — still without an appearance this season — which could necessitate moving the Quakes captain out of the lineup.

Ashley Young and Antonio Valencia were on the wings with Michael Carrick partnered in the centre of the park by an out - of - position Phil Jones — all in all hardly a side to have the opposition quaking in their boots.

The online gaming company's deal with Town has been facilitated by Sport Quake, the same agency that has negotiated deals with Bournemouth and Crystal Palace in the past.

(By the way, if you click on the picture of Quake you'll see that the box actually describes its contents as «sugary cereal.»

Speaking at the African University College of Communications on «The Lost Works of Quakes» moderated by a lecturer of the University Nana Achampong, he said that producers have to develop a perfect strategy to make their movies or art works attract higher demand and successful market.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.