«Currently, engineers are designing low - rise structures for an earthquake that has a 10 percent
chance of occurring in a 50 - year - lifetime,» he said.
Thus, a 50 - year event would have a 2
percent chance of occurring each year, a 10 - year event would have a 10 percent chance, and so on.
Other feared effects — such as the sudden release of large volumes of methane from thawing Arctic tundra or the disruption of the Atlantic Ocean currents that carry warm water into the northern latitudes — were given a
low chance of occurring on a rapid scale.
In particular, they found that big, destructive quakes may have a
better chance of occurring offshore of Washington and northern Oregon than farther south along the subduction zone — although any large quake would impact the surrounding area.
If these last two outliers were drawn from a normal distribution, each would have much less than a one - in -
a-hundred chance of occurring in the entire 13.8 billion years the universe has existed.
So we design for loadings and events with a
remote chance of occurring — but we civil engineers never get accused of being alarmist.
And according to Luco, the levels of shaking used in current Cushing building codes — the ones intended to have a 2 percent chance of being exceeded in 50 years — are less than half as large as those now given a 2
percent chance of occurring in 2017 alone.
For example, if your actions could result in the death of a client, this is a huge risk despite
the chances of it occurring being remote.
A 100 - year flood has a 1 in 4
chance of occurring in the 30 - year span of a typical home mortgage, he said, adding that's the kind of time scale that gets people's attention.
To believe something has
a chance of occuring when the odds numbers are greater than the sum of all the atoms in the universe.
What's
the chances of that occurring?
Who has more of an incentive to try to bring about peace, someone who believes armagedon has a 100 %
chance of occurring or some one who doesn't believe our future is set in stone by a diety?
The Portuguese manager has fallen out with a number of Real Madrid stars and perhaps his best hope of keeping his job was clinching the Champions League title and
the chances of that occurring have been dealt a massive blow with the Spanish club's 4 - 1 defeat at Borussia Dortmund.
The implied probability is 3.6 %
chance of occurring; by our numbers we see this matchup just 1.5 % of the time.
«But what about an event that has a 50 percent
chance of occurring?»
The chances of this occurring randomly are 1 in 1,296, according to Dr. Hirsch.
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The chances of that occurring at random are minuscule,» says Richards.
The chances of this occurring in wet sediments are reduced.»
The loxP sequence does not occur naturally in any known genome other than P1 phage, and is long enough that there is virtually
no chance of it occurring randomly.
UCAR press release on hotter future from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research continues: «if emissions remain unabated, a heat wave with a 1 - in - 20
chance of occurring in 2050 would be at least 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter for 60 percent of the world's land areas.
Wearing a skirt can decrease
the chances of that occurring.
Let's just call
the chances of that occurring «a low - probability event.»
Unless it won't be announced at all, which iLounge says has a 20 percent
chance of occurring.
The concept is this: name a bunch of things that you think there is a better than 2 / 3rds
chance of occurring that the market seemingly has less than a 1 / 3rd probability on.
The 27.2 % difference in returns in September 1939 is a 6.9 - sigma event; in a normal distribution, it would have about a one - in - five
chance of occurring in the 4.5 billion years since the planet earth came into existence.
However, like human flu shots, the vaccine for dog flu can not completely prevent the illness but it will help in lowering
the chances of it occuring.
In many cases, feeding live culture yogurt while your GP is on antibiotics can reduce
the chance of this occurring.
In many cases, feeding small amounts of live culture yogurt while your hamster is on medication can reduce
the chance of this occurring.
In a dog who has the potential for hip dysplasia, this extra pressure increases
the chances of it occurring.
There is no guarantee that your dog will never guard again, but there are ways you can reduce
the chances of it occurring.
Even though the odds of snowfall are practically non-existent, there is
a chance of it occurring.
That way, there was
no chance of that occurring.
In fact, more strictly, if the forecast probabilities are «reliable,» an event with an 80 %
chance of occurring should only occur 80 % of the time over a long historical record.
They are, broadly speaking, random events that have a 1 %
chance of occurring in any given year.