Sentences with phrase «devastating quakes»

Istanbul is best known these days as a thriving commercial hub and tourist spot, but its record of devastating quakes is etched in centuries of artwork, as seen in the slide show below, with the images drawn from the remarkable collection of earthquake art assembled by Jan Kozak in Prague.

After the destruction of hundreds of poorly built schools in China's Sichuan province, I wrote repeatedly here and in print about similar vulnerability identified by engineers and seismologists in that state, despite the clear record of devastating quakes and tsunamis generated by the Cascadia fault beneath the sea bed off the Northwest coast.

Last month, we watched helplessly as devastating quakes changed the lives of millions.

In studying the past few devastating quakes, such as the 2011 9.0 that hit Japan twice...

That slow slip now appears to have loaded the fault to the breaking point, triggering the devastating quake last March.

Nevertheless, Chinese media have included anecdotal reports of unusual swarms of toads in the region immediately prior to the devastating quake.

After rescuing his soon - to - be ex-wife, Anna (Carla Gugino), from a crumbling building in Los Angeles, the pair heads to San Francisco to save their daughter before she becomes another victim of the devastating quake.

For instance, a potential buyer for a $ 20 million apartment complex in Loma Prieta, Calif., where a devastating quake struck in 1989, might give a lender an engineering report showing that a magnitude 6.5 quake would cause $ 10 million in damage to the complex.

Not exact matches

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Markets in Asia were mostly higher Monday, as quake - devastated Japan began turning its attention to reconstruction.

They have some new ones up of the country one week after the quake devastated the country...

Had seismographs been available at the time, scientists believe those tremors would have registered magnitudes at least as great as the 7.0 quake that devastated Haiti in 2010 and possibly as high as 8.0.

When a devastating megaquake rocked the region north of Tokyo in March, nobody saw such a huge quake coming.

At magnitude 7.4 it was the strongest quake in the city since the devastating 1985 earthquake that killed 9,500 people.

Stanford scientists have found evidence that sections of the fault responsible for the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku earthquake that devastated northern Japan in 2011 were relieving seismic stress at a gradually accelerating rate for years before the quake.

A recent study led by UMass Amherst looked at risk in southwestern Japan after the devastating 2011 quake and tsunami.

As she explains, after the unexpectedly devastating 2011 quake and tsunami, Japan's government called for hazard - assessment research to define the nation's worst - case scenarios for earthquakes and tsunamis.

The most powerful and devastating earthquakes are along these zones, including Japan's 2011 Tohoku quake, a magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale.

The devastating magnitude 7.0 quake that ripped through Haiti Tuesday, reportedly killing thousands, did not catch everyone by surprise.

But the February quake was by far the most devastating; it was the costliest, worst disaster in New Zealand's history.

A new study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the occurrence of these big, destructive quakes and associated devastating tsunamis may be linked to compact sediments along large portions of the subduction zone.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

Not only did the quake devastate villages and roads, but the earth split open and swallowed sections of the forests and bamboo groves that shelter and feed pandas and other endangered wildlife.

Seismologists think that another major quake is overdue in the tectonically unstable region, and that when it comes it will devastate poorly built high - density cities such as Dhaka and Chittagong.

But as devastating as such events can be, these recent great quakes have come with a silver lining: They coincide with unprecedented advances in technological and scientific capacity for learning from them.

The warrior is equipped with powers such as «Quake» which allows the warrior to call upon a spirit who slams the area surrounding him doing devastating damage to foes caught in the area.

-- Communities and countries that have frequent low - level seismic activity (New Zealand, Japan, California) tend to have better construction standards and preparation than those where quakes are devastating, but rare (Haiti, the Pacific Northwest).