Sentences with phrase «by the earthquake at»

«We could then estimate movements and changes caused by the earthquake at the seabed and below the seabed,» Landrø said.

Intensity measures the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location.

Not exact matches

Japan had a stockpile of them when the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck last March, and Weatherhaven participated in the Haitian earthquake relief effort by selling relief agencies 140 temporary shelters at cost.

NAMIE, Japan, March 27 - At a small plant intended to help revitalise a town ravaged by the 2011 earthquake, Nissan Motor Co is giving its costly electric vehicle batteries new life after they pass their peak performance.

By: Henry Lazenby 24th April 2018 Canadian mining major Barrick Gold's Porgera Joint Venture mine, in Papua New Guinea, is still operating at only 25 % of capacity following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the island on February 26, the company announced on Monday in its first - quarter earnings release.

Have said previously that the cracks took place at the National Cathedral by the earthquake were a sign that the country was religiously not right going... and now here again it proves that the sign is stronger... we will see if any thing else will happen to stop the anniversary to take place at it on the 911!?! Well then it would be obvious the mistake you made by accusing Muslim community over 911...

Occasional horrific news stories hint at the me - first legacy of Maoism: A toddler was run over by a car, and no one stopped to help; a greedy company put melamine in milk destined for baby bottles; a Red Cross worker apparently pilfered funds meant for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, spending the money on designer bags and fancy cars.

According to a recent report released by the United States Geological Survey, Oklahoma is just one of eight states identified in the report (also Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas) where earthquakes are becoming increasingly common, at least partially because of oil and gas drilling practices.

An interesting note: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

At every moment the vast and horrible Thing breaks in upon us through the crevices and invades our precarious dwelling - place, that Thing we try so hard to forget but which is always there, separated from us only by thin dividing walls: fire, pestilence, earthquake, storm, the unleashing of dark moral forces, all these sweep away ruthlessly, in an instant, what we had laboured with mind and heart to build up and make beautiful.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Pope Francis is sending # 150,000 to families in areas of Mexico worst hit by this week's earthquake which has claimed at least 273 lives.

Israel becoming a nation again Israel will be in possession of Jerusalem when Israel is surrounded by armies no time is near Earthquakes Seas roaring nations in distress with perplexity wars and terrorism days of Noah and lot the generation at the end 2 Timothy 3:1 - 5, 7 «Difficult Times Will Come» 1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

Matthew attempted to resolve that conflict by distinguishing between the waking of the dead from sleep (which took place at the earthquake), and the coming forth from their graves (which took place «after his resurrection»).

«O loving Creator, bring healing and hope to those who, at this time, grieve, suffer pain, or who have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

As for specialties in the individual narratives, Matthew alone records the sealing and guarding of the tomb and he alone introduces an earthquake; Luke expands the story of the revelation on the road to Emmaus, which Mark's addition suggests, and introduces the meal of broiled fish partaken of by Jesus to prove the reality of his resuscitation; John alone, at the end of the century, narrates at length the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and records the scene between Jesus and Thomas and the appearance by the Sea of Galilee.

A study by Salon looked at reporting trends using the The New York Times as a case study following Hurricane Katrina, the Japan tsunami, and the Haiti earthquake.

An interesting note, which should not be ignored: «The same phenomena and portents of the sudden darkness at the sixth hour, a strong earthquake, rent stones, a temple entrance broken in two, and the rising of the dead have been reported by multiple ancient writers for the death of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC.»

«Now, more than ever, we have an important opportunity to unite and support each other, together we can improve lives and help those that need it around the world by dining out at one of these amazing restaurants,» commented Chef José Andrés, who founded World Central Kitchen in 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and continues to lead relief efforts alongside the World Central Kitchen chef team in hard - hit areas including most recently in Houston and Puerto Rico.

Inspired by the recent earthquake that shook New York City, Riazul tequila has furnished a three - part cocktail recipe for at - home mixology:

The slow start to the season has first - year head coach Mikael Stahre contemplating some changes to the team's lineup and formation as the Earthquakes prepare to face the Philadelphia Union on the road this Saturday at Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, PA, kickoff at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, with live streaming provided by MLS Live.

The Sounders next opponent, the San Jose Earthquakes, got destroyed by the New York Red Bulls 5 - 1 at Red Bull Arena.

Also at noon, NYC Councilman Mathieu Eugene and diplomats from Nepal call for international donations of money and supplies to assist residents of Nepal affected by the Saturday, April 25, earthquake; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

In the wake of the Japan crisis and an MSNBC report that one of the Indian Point reactors is more at risk for earthquake damage than any other in the nation — a claim refuted by the NRC — Cuomo called for a full safety review of the plant.

At 7 a.m., and through Saturday, the Puerto Rican Family Institute is taking donations for families impacted by the Mexico earthquake and the PR hurricanes, 145 West 15th Street, 7th Floor, Manhattan.

At noon, NYC Councilman Mathieu Eugene joins elected officials, school administrators, and clergy members for the launch of «District 40 Cares,» a collaborative relief effort to provide supplies to those affected by the devastation caused by hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean and the earthquake in Mexico, 900 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn.

Seismic activity was detected by several monitoring agencies at 02:57 GMT at North Korea's nuclear test site, with the US Geological Survey recording a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9.

The program, which is administered by ARIA and the Australian Academy of Science, is targeted at researchers from the Italian region of L'Aquila, which recently lost its university to an earthquake.

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.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

In April an independent panel of geologists, seismologists, and engineers commissioned by an advisory group to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) published a report [pdf] disputing earlier claims that the seismic strain in the area had dissipated, concluding instead that the New Madrid Seismic Zone is «at significant risk for damaging earthquakes.»

Dr Ubide said it was currently very difficult to predict volcanic eruptions — as evidenced by the eruption at Mount Agung in Bali, which started last November after 2 months of precursory earthquakes.

The statement, signed by Keller and Oklahoma's state seismologist at the time, Austin Holland, pointed to evidence of historical natural earthquakes in the area.

We know enough about earthquake engineering at this point that we can actually extrapolate how a second story might behave based on what the first story does when it is slowly crushed by giant motors.

«This earthquake was something that was not foreseen by anybody, but it managed to change the way that people thought about nuclear power rather dramatically,» said Shcherbakova, who also serves as director of the Master of Science in Energy Management program at UT Dallas.

«We've all been taken aback by what happened in L'Aquila,» says Thomas Jordan, a seismologist at the University of Southern California and chairman of an international commission on earthquake forecasting that was set up after the disaster.

Three creeping faults have large locked areas (less than 1 mm or.04 inches of creep per year) that have not ruptured in a major earthquake of at least magnitude 6.7 since the reporting of earthquakes by local inhabitants: Rodgers Creek, northern Calaveras and southern Green Valley.

At the time of the earthquake, the area in Colorado was a swampy, delta - like environment, crossed by large braided streams that ran from the young Rocky Mountains.

Based on his graduate work at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, the work published in Science reports that the potential magnitude of deep earthquakes in the central Puget Sound region is determined by just how deep they are.

According to a new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, a large earthquake on one fault can trigger large aftershocks on separate faults within just a few minutes.

«The stress that is released by the earthquakes is there already — by injecting water, you're just speeding up the process,» said co-author Gregory Beroza, the Wayne Loel Professor in geophysics at Stanford Earth and co-director of SCITS.

Earthquake shaking is caused by a mixture of seismic waves moving through the ground at different frequencies.

By identifying these errors and learning why they're inaccurate (caverns and the minerals shown simply couldn't exist at those depths and pressures, nor would an M10.5 earthquake strike our planet), Stein said he offers students an entertaining way to connect with their inner skeptic: a vital trait for young scientists in training.

At first, the liberated water would have softened the material, actually decreasing the risk of a big earthquake by allowing it to absorb more force, Dugan says.

The work was carried out by the Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques3 (LDO, CNRS / Université de Bretagne Occidentale), in collaboration with the Laboratoire Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (CNRS / Université de La Rochelle), GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany), Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement (CNRS / Collège de France / AMU / IRD), the IFREMER's Laboratoire Géosciences Marines, the Eurasian Institute of Earth Sciences at the Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), and the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Such changes — whether caused by global warming or earthquakes — remain too small to be reliably detected at present, Gross says.

Guest edited by Huajian Yao, professor of geophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China, the special section includes eight articles that present current data, description and preliminary analysis of the Lushan event and discuss the potential of future earthquakes in the region.

The work was co-funded by the UK Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) and STREVA, a research consortium aimed at finding ways to reduce the negative consequences of volcanic activity on people and their assets.

«Until slow earthquakes were observed 10 to 15 years ago, conventional wisdom held that faults either released energy slowly and steadily by creeping, or would store tectonic stress until they failed catastrophically,» moving at a rate of about 3 feet per second, says Demian Saffer, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University.

The lateral shaking may have been amplified by a phenomenon noted during the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, in which seismic waves bounce off firmer rock below, and intensify the shaking at ground level.