Sentences with phrase «causing small earthquakes»

SkyTruth provides imagery to a community that suspects wastewater injection is causing small earthquakes in Colorado.

Also, if Yoshi eats certain color shells, then he will gain abilities: Green shells do nothing, red shells allow Yoshi to spit fire, yellow shells allow Yoshi to cause a small earthquake every time the player lands after a jump, which defeats any enemies who are on the ground nearby, and blue shells allow Yoshi to fly for a short period of time.

Not exact matches

That well set off a small earthquake that caused the project to be abandoned and led to an 18 - month prohibition on fracking.

Additionally, in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, as well as the earthquakes in Mexico, the firm and Goldman Sachs Gives made grants exceeding $ 2 million to organizations providing immediate resources, short - term relief, long - term housing and small business reconstruction and recovery.

According to the USGS, earthquakes between 5.0 and 5.9 are listed as moderate, and «can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions.

The earthquakes at Axial Seamount are small and the seafloor movements gradual and thus can not cause a tsunami.

Yet the recent north Texas earthquakes were so small they caused offsets of just a fraction of a centimeter.

Instead, the proliferation of hundreds of small earthquakes in that part of the U.S. is thought to be caused primarily by massive amounts of wastewater injected back into the ground after oil and gas recovery.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

This stress build - up, and rupturing, was the root cause of the massive 1944 Tonankai earthquake and the smaller Off - Mie earthquake that struck almost the same area on April 1, 2016.

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

Tesla claimed to have accidentally caused an earthquake in New York City using a small steam - powered electric generator he'd invented — MythBusters debunked that idea.

So far, scientists believe that larger earthquakes are unlikely to occur following tremors or earthquakes below a Richter scale of 2 that are caused by small vibrations or slow fault movements such as those observed in the area of Parkfield along the San Andreas Fault in California, USA.

While none of these small - to - moderate earthquakes has yet caused significant property damage or injury, they represent an increased probability of larger earthquakes.

Smaller faults also exist within plates, and when pressure builds up, they, too, can suddenly give way, causing an intraplate earthquake like the 2011 one centered in Mineral, Va., or the famous New Madrid quakes of 1811 in the Louisiana Territory.

«We tested each mechanism,» Tingay says, «and we show that the order of magnitude of the earthquake was too small to cause it.

In the latest research the researchers used data from previous fracking operations to measure the distance between the furthest detected microseismic event — a small earthquake caused by hydraulic fracturing of the rock or fault reactivation — and the injection point in the fracking borehole.

Yam: I mean, we're focused on California earthquakes, but of course, severe earthquakes happen all over the world, and I think places, as Haiti demonstrated, even smaller earthquakes can cause much greater damage, based on the construction there.

The large amounts of additional data, researchers say, has helped refine previous work, fill holes in the data coverage, and also to rule out other possible causes of some sediment deposits, such as major storms, random landslides or small local earthquakes.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A great offshore earthquake, like the one that killed hundreds of thousands when it struck off Indonesia's Sumatra coast in December 2004, would seem to offer a small measure of solace to survivors: The offshore tectonic fault that caused the temblor should require many centuries to recharge.

«In other words, surprisingly small changes in stress can reactivate certain faults in the region and cause earthquakes,» DeShon said.

Smaller earthquakes can also be caused by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests.

Most earthquakes are small and unnoticeable, and cause little or no damage, but others can be catastrophic.

Greenland ice stream acceleration: e.g., Rignot and Kanagaratnam (2006), also, small earthquakes in Greenland, caused by sliding glaciers, had become twice as frequent: Ekström et al. (2006).

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.

Natural gas hydrofracturing took a public relations hit this month, when a British energy company admitted that its fracking operation in England was the direct cause of several small earthquakes earlier this year.

While these are usually small and don't cause a lot of damage, some type of earthquake damage has been recorded in all 50 states since 1900.

But even a small tremor can cause thousands of dollars in damage, which you must pay out of pocket if you don't have the right earthquake insurance in place.

Even small quakes can cause damage, so it's important to make sure your family and your home are prepared and have coverage in case of an earthquake.

There's no way to accurately predict the severity of an earthquake, and, unfortunately, for those residents in Alaska that own older homes, an earthquake, even a small one, can cause significant damage.