Sentences with phrase «damage after a quake»

Still, most foundations are built from concrete, masonry products, or rock held together with cement, so they can be at risk for damage after a quake of any magnitude.

Not exact matches

After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast quakes — they settled on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage even well - built structures.

An analysis of buildings tagged red and yellow by structural engineers after the August 2014 earthquake in Napa links pre-1950 buildings and the underlying sedimentary basin to the greatest shaking damage, according to one of six reports on the Napa quake published in the March / April issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

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.

Rubble from damaged buildings and other structures remained on the streets even when this photo was taken, nearly a year after the quake on Dec. 30, 2010.