Sentences with phrase «earth tremor»

The only company in Britain using hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from shale rock said Wednesday that the controversial technique probably did trigger earth tremors in April and May.

The signal, which was picked up by underwater sound recorders off Rottnest Island just after 1:30 am UTC on the 8th March, could have resulted from Flight MH370 crashing into the Indian Ocean but could also have originated from a natural event, such as a small earth tremor.

Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano registered one of its most powerful earth tremors yet on Wednesday while the sinking of its caldera raised concerns of an eruption and flooding, authorities said

REYKJAVIK (Reuters)- Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano registered one of its most powerful earth tremors yet on Wednesday while the sinking of its caldera raised concerns of an eruption and flooding, authorities said.

The Commission calmed the local population down following a number of earth tremors.

«When the prime minister was questioned the first time there was sort of a real earth tremor that went through politics because this was the first time a serving prime minister was questioned by police.

«These signals resemble Earth tremor that occurs in association with slow earthquakes on tectonic faults in the lower crust,» Johnson said.

Another reason for Woo's reduced role is undoubtedly the extensive, lavish special effects: the film works wonders not only with a crashing helicopter but also with the rolling earth tremors like tidal waves that follow a nuclear explosion.

Lawrence Carter of Greenpeace said: «People's apprehensions about fracking go well beyond earth tremors.

To what extent might fracking - associated earth tremors rupture natural gas well seals or caps, increasing the potential for water - well and indoor air pollution?

Environmental campaigners, who are concerned about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminating groundwater resources and triggering earth tremors, welcomed the decision.

Dr Duncan said the signal could also have been due to natural causes — such as a small earth tremor — but the timing made it of interest in the search for MH370.

The Cuadrilla project near Blackpool, northwest England, was abandoned after it triggered an earth tremor that resulted in an 18 - month ban on fracking, lifted in 2012.

The secretive communist state said its sixth nuclear test was a «perfect success», hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor.

These measurements are hard to do on the ground owing to vibrations from street traffic, Earth tremors and other disturbances.

The tiniest vibrations — earth tremors, the rumble of trains, even surf crashing on distant beaches — can swamp the signal of gravitational waves.

A kind - hearted instrument manufacturer gave him additional equipment that recorded graphically the earth tremors picked up by the seismograph.

But even he can not suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, a married woman now... whose own secrets may turn out to be the most dangerous ones of all.

She stayed on the beach until 1963 when an earth tremor slid the boat off the beach into the ocean where she has become one of the most popular dives in Bali.

Environmentalists are worried, though, about contaminated drinking water, and earth tremors - but perhaps those are the least of the dangers.

This month marks six years since Cuadrilla fracked the first and only well in the UK, resulting in earth tremors and a temporary moratorium.

Fracking has been on hold in the UK since 2011 when two small earth tremors were blamed on exploratory operations by Cuadrilla at another site near Blackpool.