Sentences with phrase «damaged by an earthquake»

Although the Mazda plant in Hiroshima, Japan, where the Mazda5 is built, wasn't damaged by the earthquakes, 90 percent of the parts in the vehicle come from Japan, so some of Mazda's suppliers could have been affected.

Earthquakes: Renters insurance does not protect personal property damaged by an earthquake.

Earthquake insurance provides coverage if your home is damaged by an earthquake.

Earthquake insurance covers property that is damaged by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The town was heavily damaged by an earthquake and resulting tsunami in 1992 that affected more than 90 % of the structures.

It's like what we did with «Riso Cacio e Pepe,» helping to sell the 360,000 big wheels of Parmigiano that were damaged by the earthquake — it was a social gesture that could have been made by Joseph Beuys.

Some of Japan's LNG regasification facilities were heavily damaged by the earthquake, particularly in Sendai.

If water lines are damaged by an earthquake, we can replace those lines with new, lower - friction pipes and include controls and leak - notification sensors that will save water — and the energy used for pumping it;

[T] he odds of a city being damaged by an earthquake are not evenly distributed on our planet (McGuire 2004; Dilley 2005).

Earthquakes: Renters insurance does not protect personal property damaged by an earthquake.

Your homeowner's policy may also exclude or limit coverage from damage by earthquake, hurricane, hail, or tornadoes.

You could find yourself responsible for excessive out - of - pocket costs if your home is seriously damaged by an earthquake.

Not all homeowners insurance policy will pay when their homes are damaged by earthquake.

Earthquake insurance provides coverage if your home is damaged by an earthquake.

If your policy does not include earthquake coverage and you fail to purchase the endorsement, you could find yourself responsible for major out - of - pocket costs if your home is seriously damaged by an earthquake.

Not exact matches

But the damage caused by Japan's earthquake has presented some potential opportunities.

It has been reported by media outlets in both Australia and New Zealand that there has been no deaths or serious injuries and that damage caused by the earthquake is «minimal».

The cathedral is planning to repair earthquake damage in time to reopen this weekend, when it will host a variety of events marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, including a Sunday event that will be attended by President Barack Obama.

«My understanding is they were lifting materials to the roof to repair damages that were caused by the earthquake,» said Fire Battalion Chief John Donnelly of the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department.

Even when there is no intent, subconscious or otherwise, to teach ethnocentrism and prejudice in our nation - state systems, the presentation of news (e.g. of damage done to people by earthquakes, avalanches, or wars) about distant peoples in a context of passive entertainment and commercial announcements as typically happens In western TV, radio and press fosters indifference.

But his charge changed dramatically on August 23, when Virginia was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that damaged the cathedral, along with landmarks like the Washington Monument.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

According to a release from the NIC, the compulsory insurance will cover fire and allied perils like flood, earthquake, the collapse of buildings, storm and as well, legal liabilities of an owner or occupier of premises in respect of loss of or damage to property, bodily injury or death suffered by all users of the premises and third parties.

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.

By including the whole world, Stein says, the model should enable scientists to test forecasts of big, damaging earthquakes in a practical amount of time.

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.»

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.

A survey carried out by Japan's Environment Agency shows that the number of asbestos fibres in the air has increased to more than four times the national average, as earthquake - damaged houses are pulled down.

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.

After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami.

RADIOACTIVITY DETECTIVES The Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear plant, shown in the background here in 2016, was damaged in 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami.

Other earthquake damage uncovered by the researchers included upwarping of stone floors, cracked walls, and a precariously leaning fort wall.

The type of damage sustained by temples clustered around two towns in the region — Chamba and Bharmour — suggests that the Chamba temples may have been affected by the 1555 earthquake, while the Bharmour temples were damaged by the 1905 quake, the seismologists conclude.

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).

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

«The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50 percent since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in central Oklahoma,» the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said earlier this week.

Many people understand the damage that can be caused to structures, roads, bridges and utilities by ground shaking in these long - lasting types of earthquakes, such as the one that's anticipated on the Cascadia Subduction Zone between northern California and British Columbia.

Boatwright et al., analyzed data provided by structural engineers who inspected and tagged damaged buildings after the earthquake.

As detailed in an accompanying guide, NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Data Repository: The Chile Earthquake Database — Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

Before making this accomplishment, the team spent 20 years of planning, designing and construction, as well as overcoming many hardships such as suspension of the project due to the damage to the nearly completed system caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, encountering a serious worldwide shortage of helium supply, and the sudden passing of the team leader.

And the Daiichi complex in Fukushima, Japan, damaged by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami contains more fuel than was at risk at Three Mile Island.

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.

Even though cells are not threatened by hurricanes and earthquakes, the damage induced by heat or radiation is equally devastating: Important proteins that control chemical reactions, transport substances or recognize signal substances, among others, lose their structure and are rendered useless.

So, says Seth Stein, a geophysicist at Northwestern University, «a «large» earthquake close by does more damage than a «huge» one a little further away».

Certainly there'll be damage, but one of the thing that's happened in the past, well I'm going to call it 15 or 20 years or so, is that our construction techniques for dealing with the vibrations caused by the earthquake have been employed since then, so that damage will be limited, compared with what it might have been, had it happened, say 30 years ago, before new construction requirements were put into place.

Information about the earthquake source can be used to estimate what areas were most affected by an earthquake's shaking to guide rescue efforts and damage assessment.

Allen, Kong and their colleagues at Deutsche Telekom's Silicon Valley Innovation Center believe the app's performance shows it can complement traditional seismic networks, such as that operated nationally by the U.S. Geological Survey, but can also serve as a stand - alone system in places with few seismic stations, helping to reduce injuries and damage from earthquakes.

The findings raise hopes that wildlife in the area of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, which was damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in the world's second - worst nuclear disaster, might also begin to recover in the coming years.

Most earthquake damage results from the shaking caused by seismic waves passing beneath buildings, roads, and other structures.