Sentences with phrase «dams by the earthquake»

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Areas like Sichuan are already prone to earthquakes — the Wenchuan quake in 2008 killed at least 70,000 people and may have been exacerbated by the reservoirs for new dams in the region.

Geologists have used the term «induced seismicity» to describe earthquakes triggered by mining, dams, underground nuclear tests and wastewater injection.

When a series of earthquakes hits the Hoover Dam and Los Angeles, Ray finds himself on a race to save his daughter in San Francisco before it gets hit by the largest recorded quake in history.

The article «A decade on, controversy still surrounds China's Three Gorges Dam» in the journal Probe International says, «Despite the problems, the Three Gorges will be joined by a wave of new hydropower projects over the next decade — mostly spread across China's mountainous and earthquake prone southwest.»

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We show the boundaries and whether it's in a high - severity fire zone, an earthquake zone, landslide zone or a [dam - break] flood zone or any natural hazard zone that's mapped by federal, state or local agencies.