Sentences with phrase «during an earthquake on»

Not exact matches

CentureLink Field provides one of the most noticeable home advantage of any team in the league; it's incredibly loud (fans generated so much noise during Saturday's defeat of the New Orleans Saints that it caused a minor earthquake), making communication among players on the opposing teams virtually impossible.

Ram Prasad Sapkota (62) of Tripureshwor VDC, 35 km from HQ Dhadingbesi of Dhading district mends his house, which collapsed during the earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale in April 25 2015.

It has helped others during times of adversity and war and earthquakes and so on.

She uses as an illustration the fact that foundations for new skyscrapers in Southern California are placed on rollers, enabling them to roll with the movements of the earth during an earthquake so that they won't crack apart.

«I think that if the secretary of defense and President Obama are coming, that means it's safe to be here,» cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg told members of the media during a press tour of the cathedral's nave, the first since the 5.8 magnitude earthquake on August 23.

============ Julius Africanus (c. 160 — c. 240) Chronography, XVIII refers to writings by Thallus and Phlegon concerning the darkness during the Crucifixion: On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down.

«The Asian tsunami of 2004, the Haitian earthquake, the tornado that struck Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis during ELCA meetings on homosexuality — these were clearly acts of judgment from God upon sinful people.

Made a vat of «The Lady from Naples Red Sauce» from first book (p. 69) in prep for the GF Allergen - Free pizza I'm going to make this week with my GF Pizza Crust (p. 169) and the Daiya dairy - free (soy - free and nut - free) cheese I purchased from Whole Foods yesterday during the EARTHQUAKE (thought shelves were going to fall on me, though there are worse places to be buried than Whole Foods).

Terrell Davis was caught on camera on the set of NFL AM during the Los Angeles area's 4.4 Earthquake this morning and his reaction was pretty funny.

Terrell Davis was caught on camera on the set of NFL AM during the Los Angeles area's 4.4 Earthquake this morning...

Four papers in this issue — by Sato et al. on page 1395 (1), Simons et al. on page 1421 (2), Ide et al. on page 1426 (3), and Vigny et al. on page 1417 (4)-- report on both of these magnitude 9 (M9) earthquakes, illustrating the use of networks of Global Positioning System (GPS) detectors to reveal how the Earth's surface deformed during and after the events.

The issue arose last week at a meeting between Westinghouse and NRC staff that included issues of emergency stresses on the reactor shield building, such as during an earthquake, said NRC spokesman Scott Burnell.

An earlier paper by JFAST researchers, published in Science in February 2013 (Lin et al.), also suggested a nearly total stress drop during the earthquake based on an analysis of geophysical data collected during drilling.

Their results, published December 5 in Science, show that friction on the fault was remarkably low during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011 and triggered a devastating tsunami.

The frictional resistance on a fault during slip controls earthquake dynamics.

The long - term implications of the study hinge on evidence that the pre-existing faults from the 1944 earthquake have strongly influenced the orientation and location of rupturing during the 2016 event, suggesting that large earthquakes in Japan are most likely to occur in this very same region of the Nankai Trough in the future.

The JFAST results show that the frictional stress on the shallow portion of the fault was very low during the earthquake, which means that either the stress was low to begin with or all of the stress was released during the earthquake.

The low resistance to slip on the fault may help explain the large amount of slip — an unprecedented 50 meters of displacement — that occurred during the earthquake, according to UC Santa Cruz researcher Patrick Fulton, who is first author of the paper focusing on the temperature measurements.

Using these same fault - zone materials, Ujiie et al. (p. 1211) performed high - velocity frictional experiments to determine the physical controls on the large slip that occurred during the earthquake.

«We will be analyzing the data to characterize the amount of frictional heat on the fault during the Tohoku earthquake,» Fulton said.

Scientists will infer the forces on the fault during the earthquake from these measurements of dissipated energy.

The new research also explains why faults with glass on them (reflecting the fact that during the earthquake the fault zone melted) are rare.

Researchers are particularly interested in a system that allows the building to rock in response to an earthquake and on how the walls and floors interact during shaking.

We are finally going to be able to get data on how the different components function as a system during strong earthquakes,» said Pei.

All those indicted took part in a meeting held in L'Aquila on March 30, 2009, during which they were asked to assess the risk of a major earthquake in view of the many shocks that had hit the city in the previous months.

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.

He will discuss MyShake and other earthquake early warning systems during a scientific session on Friday, Feb. 12, 10 - 11:30 a.m. EST, during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

The new measurements in this research were made with cores that showed the results of massive amounts of sediments released by subsea landslides during a subduction zone earthquake — a catastrophic event beneath the sea as well as on land.

The GPS records described in the Science Express paper show that within the zone that experienced the greatest amount of slip during the earthquake — a region south of the sources of high - frequency waves and closer to Kathmandu — the onset of slip on the fault was actually very smooth.

As earthquakes occur during the course of this project, the team is measuring the deformation at the time of the earthquakes to determine the distribution of slip on the faults, and then monitoring longer - term motions after the earthquakes to learn more about fault zone properties.

And the destructive power of nature was on full display during hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires that pay no heed to human life or property.

For example, during clusters on the San Andreas, big earthquakes happened only about 50 years apart, while the clusters are separated by several hundred years.

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.

A comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes.

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.

«If you want to know the forces acting on a fault during an earthquake, it turns out to be an incredibly hard problem,» Brodsky said.

The friction as two massive plates of the Earth's crust slide past one another is dissipated as heat, so temperature measurements can give scientists a handle on the fault's resistance to sliding during the earthquake.

He pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and now focuses on the use of robotics for humanitarian purposes.

During a camping trip all of that changes when an earthquake ushers in an Alien invasion on their small desert hometown.

On our drive to Muir Woods our knowledgeable guide will explain how this grove of Redwoods was spared from the clear - cutting that went on during the gold rush and then again during the rebuilding and reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquakOn our drive to Muir Woods our knowledgeable guide will explain how this grove of Redwoods was spared from the clear - cutting that went on during the gold rush and then again during the rebuilding and reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquakon during the gold rush and then again during the rebuilding and reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

Days in Guatemala — 29 Miles traveled — 477 Shuttle vans — 5 Hours on shuttle vans — 29 Flat tires — 1 Tuk - tuks — 2 (3 - wheeled motorbike taxis) Boat trips — 2 Trains — 0 Planes — 0 Cities visited — 5 Beds slept in — 8 Rooms with A / C — 0 Nights under mosquito net — 3 Beaches — 0 Lakes — 2 Rivers — 1 Natural Pools — 10 (Semuc Champey) Volcanoes climbed — 1 Volcano eruptions viewed — 1 (Volcan Fuego near Antigua) Earthquakes — 1 (Antigua) Ruins — 1 Horseback rides — 1 Pyramids climbed — 5 Traveler's stomach incidents — 1 Colds — 2 (1 each during a rainy week in Panajachel) Caves Explored — 2 Falls off a waterfall in a cave -1 (Heather at Semuc Champey — 12 feet high) Days on antibiotics (anti-malarial)-- 29 Churches & Cathedrals — 4 Ruins of Churches in Antigua — 6 World Cup Matches watched — 5 (Spanish Commentary), 1 (English) Coffee fincas — 1 Museums — 1 Restaurants — 49 Uses of hair dryer — 2 (Heather) Days / nights wearing makeup — 6 (yes, Heather again)

Later on, those San Francisco streets dive more treacherously than during an earthquake.

Biographical overviews, artist talks, video interviews, and additional resources provide insight into this tumultuous but artistically fertile period, spanning Allied occupation and the escalation of American troops in Japan during the Vietnam War, the country's spectacular economic growth and subsequent crash in the 1980s, the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and on.

San Francisco's earthquakes, Miami's hurricanes, New Orleans» weakened levees, Venice's rising lagoon and New York during 9/11, have left indelible impressions on me of the vulnerability and resiliency of life in the big city.

There's a chip on the tip of its nose, and a corresponding dent in the parchment - colored glazed - cement floor where the statue fell during the 1994 earthquake.

Among the most affecting works here are those that focus on the children killed in shoddily built schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

When classroom supports dislodge from the chassis during earthquakes, the steel bearing plates and heigh adjusters can penetrate through the floor of the classroom unit and protrude into the floor space where occupants may be dropping, covering and holding on under furniture.

He accompanied me into Istanbul slums in 2009 for my story on communities preparing for the inevitable earthquake in that sprawling megacity, and then shot again for The Times during the tumultuous climate negotiations in Copenhagen a year ago.

Fred Turner, Consulting Structural Engineer for many years with the California Seismic Safety Commission summarizes the hazards in these single rooms, perched on top of concrete or steel supports: «i) If unattached classrooms move relative to their stair systems (which can be structurally separated from the classroom) doors that open outward can be prevented from opening by creation of an offset, gap or obstruction that forms between the classrooms and the stairs during the earthquake, potentially obstructing egress.