Sentences with phrase «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?

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.

I read a newspaper article that attributed earth tremors in Nevada (I think) to fracking because of the timing with the permission to go ahead.

«Fracking - induced earth tremors are akin to vibrations from a dump truck on your street.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

Then sometime close by 11.30 AM (Bali time) we experienced some house wobbling in the form of an Earth tremor that lasted for a good 90 seconds.

What we had in Bali this morning, even though stronger on the quake scale, I would in no way class as an «Earth quake», just an Earth tremor.

Where we thankfully only have the occasional minor earth tremor.

Not exact matches

The earth shakes, but God isn't in its tremors.

MASSIVE earthquakes, such as the one that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, could be predicted years in advance by monitoring tremors caused by «Earth tides».

He found that in the years leading up to the 2004 earthquake, more tremors occurred when the pull of the daily Earth tides was at its strongest than at other times.

The method uses optical sensing devices to detect movement of solar gases, much as seismologists can detect tremors in the earth.

The generator sits on a bed of 60 springs, which are necessary to ease the tremors created when it decelerates after powering the magnet, creating an earth - shaking fury.

A recent study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

Between two and three in the afternoon of April 11, a European observer in the village of Surakarta (Solo) noticed «a tremulous motion of the earth, distinctly indicated by the tremor of large window frames; another comparatively violent explosion occurred late in the afternoon.

Last autumn, Lowell Whiteside of the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and Yehuda Ben - Zion of Harvard University reported a phenomenon that hinted that an earthquake could trigger tremors right around the Earth.

Direct observations of the fault were scarce, so Eric Dunham, an assistant professor of geophysics in the School of Earth Sciences, and Jeremy Kozdon, a postdoctoral researcher working with Dunham, began using the cluster of supercomputers at Stanford's Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) to simulate how the tremors moved through the crust and ocean.

Everything from big quakes to tiny tremors sends seismic waves echoing through Earth's interior.

A new study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

seismometer (also known as a seismograph) An instrument that detects and measures tremors (known as seismic waves) as they pass through Earth.

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins This prequel to the original phenomenon will thrill you with incredible action sequences and earth - shaking special effects created by the award - winning team behind the first box - office hit!

Doug Aitken's Sonic Pavilion, for example, features a deep hole in the center filled with sensitive microphones that capture tremors deep inside the earth, while Matthew Barney's geodesic glass dome houses a giant tractor clutching at an uprooted tree.

It does not cover shifts in the earth's crust that are the direct result of earthquakes or tremors.