Sentences with phrase «damage during an earthquake»

«Ventura fault could cause stronger shaking, new research finds: Researchers find that the fault has a staircase - like structure, which would result in stronger shaking and more damage during an earthquake.»

These buildings were damaged during an earthquake.

How can I prevent damage during an earthquake?

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A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.

Washington (CNN)- Washington's National Cathedral sustained «significant damage» during Tuesday's 5.8 - magnitude earthquake, the church said Wednesday, and will remain closed at least through Saturday, when it had planned to host a dedication event for the capital's new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial.

The Washington landmark has been closed since parts of its Gothic structure were damaged during last week's earthquake.

Lateral shaking is the force that can cause the most damage to a building during an earthquake.

ICOM has since used satellites to survey damage to ancient mausoleums in Timbuktu during the 2012 civil war in Mali and plans to use them to assess destruction caused by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Previous studies identified three sub-events at intervals of 20 seconds in the seismic signals recorded during the 1980 Irpinia earthquake sequence, whose shared ground motion caused more than 3000 deaths and significant damage to structures.

A new study by a team of researchers, including one from the University of California, Riverside, found that the fault under Ventura, Calif., would likely cause stronger shaking during an earthquake and more damage than previously suspected.

That would likely cause stronger shaking during an earthquake and more damage.

The rods allow the wall to rock during an earthquake and snap back into its original upright position, minimizing the deformation and the resulting structural damage.

Damage likely to have occurred during the 1555 Kashmir earthquake.

The goal of the tests is to gather enough data to design wood buildings as tall as 20 stories that do not suffer significant damage during large earthquakes.

But as Resnikoff pointed out, many of the radiation sensors are located on the nuclear plant's site and may well have been damaged during or since the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

While its residents have escaped serious injury, many of its historic buildings suffered damage during a magnitude 5.0 earthquake that struck in November 2016, with an epicenter less than two miles west of town.

Depending on where you live in the Cascadia region, an earthquake may cause ground shaking, landslides, soil liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), tsunamis, fires, hazardous material spills and building damage.

Research developments have included development and implementation of performance - based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures.

Magic Mountain's 38 - story Sky Tower swayed six feet in each direction during the Northridge earthquake with only minor damage.

The building was slightly damaged during the 2011 Washington D.C. earthquake, and the construction process required reworking of the original infrastructure.

The name alone «Sacred wisdom» damaged by several earthquakes was going to draw upon a lot of European City of Capital Cultural investment for restoration renovation, history and Cultural heritage during this year 2010.

The Washington Monument is encased in scaffolding during repairs of damage caused by a 2011 earthquake.

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