Sentences with phrase «earthquake epicentres»
The 25 portable seismometers will be used to expand the existing observatory network IPOC (Integrated Plate Boundary Observatory Chile) in order to be able to determine the earthquake epicentres more precisely.
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The epicentre of the magnitude 7.3 quake was to the east of the more powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April that killed more than 8000 people.
«It's possible that the Samoan earthquake did trigger Indonesia's earthquake,» says Niu, not least because the epicentres are geographically close.
The earthquake hit hardest at Tohoku University, a materials - science, engineering and biomedicine powerhouse in the city of Sendai, close to the epicentre.
After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami.
Bir, which has been sealed off, is about 125 kilo - metres from the epicentre of a massive earthquake that shook Maharashtra last year.
This earthquake struck about 100 kilometres south of the main earthquake's epicentre.
No, it is not a bizarre writing test for left - handers, but a researcher from Frankfurt University's Geophysical Institute pointing out how the epicentre of northern Europe's recent earthquake was located.
But close to the earthquake's epicentre, bells on church towers may toll with their own rhythm — in some analogy to a pygmy resonance,» says Prof. Adam Maj at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Kraków.
The epicentre of the earthquake was near the industrial city of Tangshan in Hebei, China, which housed around one million inhabitants.
The content covered by the lesson are; Plate boundaries that cause earthquakes, the stages of earthquake, responding to an earthquake disaster and identifying the focus / epicentre of an earthquake.
I was amazed to read about the earthquake next day — apparently various villages were vying for «epicentre» status... And your talk was wonderful, too!
Was teaching Tuesday evening so could not make it and I, too, did not note any evidence of the earthquake even though I live very close to the so - called epicentre!!