Sentences with phrase «earthquake under it»

Arsenal football club needs an earthquake under it's feet to break the old and start something new.

All the forces of nature that we used to call «acts of God» have become, at least in part, acts of humankind (excepting volcanoes and earthquakes — though scientists this winter announced that lurching ice had more than doubled the number of earthquakes under Greenland).

In a study published online by Science on 6 February, a team led by volcanologist Domenico Patanè of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Catania reports the locations and rupture patterns of 647 earthquakes under and near the mountain.

Huge volumes of partly molten rock have forced their way upward within Sicily's Mount Etna since 1994, according to a new study of earthquakes under the volcano and bulges at its surface.

Blankenship, D.D., S. Anandakrishnan, J.L. Kempf, and C.R. Bentley, Micro - earthquakes under and alongside Ice Stream B, detected by a new passive seismic array, Annals of Glaciology, Vol.

The glaciated mountain, which is Iceland's highest volcano, is teasing scientists by producing swarms of small earthquakes under its flanks.

If I was a questioner, I'd ask them about potentialities of the future earthquakes under Greenland and West Antarctic ice, about small so far earthquakes for first time on record in west Greenland last summer (UK Guardian early September), magma close to surface northeast Greenland (MSNBC early December), magma close to surface by Pine Island Glacier W. Antarctic (NYT January), rain at North Pole last summer and morels on Greenland big enough to fly a helicopter into (UK Independent, both articles early October)

Typically, insurance companies place natural disaster like floods, earthquakes under the «Acts of God» clause which fall under permanent exclusions in car insurance.

In many cases, travel insurance policies will cover earthquakes under benefits for natural disasters.

Not exact matches

Under pressure to resign as leader of a country ravaged by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, Naoto Kan's last act in August 2011 was to transform Japan's energy policy.

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.

Looking at the figures above I can not complain as my dividend train keeps chugging along churning out that passive income despite currency headwinds, economic headwinds, terror across the world, saber rattling from North Korea, Russian troops in Ukraine, The Nigerian delta under attack curbing the flow of oil, floods, earthquakes etc. etc..

I'm standing under a canvas roof in the tent city of Port au Prince after the earthquake.

The writer has in view the disturbed political situation of the late fifties or early sixties, the «wars and rumours of wars» upon the eastern frontier of the Empire, the famines and earthquake shocks recorded under Claudius and Nero, and the growing isolation and unpopularity of the Christian Church; but he is concerned to assure his readers that» the end is not yet.»

A man in Haiti, who was working with Compassion International, was trapped under rubble after the earthquake and lost for 65 hours.

San Salvador was still cluttered with rubble from October's earthquake, leaving the impression of a city under siege.

At midnight, while Paul and Silas were recovering from the horrible beating that had been inflicted on them, the jail rocked under the impact of an earthquake, and all the doors of the prison were thrown ajar.

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Huge potholes resembling Serbian mortar craters caused drivers to weave about as if under the influence of an exotic tropical drug, and the maximum speed through the former banana port was about five miles an hour, slower even than in Nancy and Jeff's earthquake - ravaged Cahuita!

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Earthquakes are no laughing matter... however, KTLA news anchor, Chris Schauble, gave us a priceless reaction, jumping under desk for cover this morning during the 4.4 magnitude earthquake.

Rochester and Strood confirms that Mr Farage's predicted political earthquake is already under way.

A recent government study estimated that $ 955 billion worth of damage and 11,000 deaths could result from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake directly under the northern part of Tokyo Bay — a monster quake many seismologists believe is long overdue.

They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

«Currently, the fourth S&T Basic Plan 2011 — 2015 is under re-examination to incorporate necessary actions to recover from the disaster of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami,» says Ohama.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Even after the situation was brought under relative control over subsequent days and weeks, public concern hung on the threat of radiation almost more than it did than on the tsunami and earthquake themselves, which had killed more than 15,850 people and displaced at least 340,000 more.

The brief magnetic pulses observed prior to some moderate - sized earthquakes might be triggered by chemical bonds breaking in rocks under stress (such as those deep beneath the San Andreas fault, shown).

The April 25 earthquake in Nepal claimed more than 8,000 lives, but four men trapped under debris survived, thanks to the first field use of some NASA technology.

A new study by a team of researchers, including one from the University of California, Riverside, found that the fault under Ventura, Calif., would likely cause stronger shaking during an earthquake and more damage than previously suspected.

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

While deep earthquakes also get started in response to increasing stresses, the rocks there flow rather than break, except under special conditions.

In the past seven and a half years under Frieden's leadership the CDC has been roiled by crises including government furloughs, H1N1 flu, lab safety issues and the U.S. responses to Ebola and the Haiti earthquake.

Kendall is convinced that the references are to the missing rock - cut coronation chamber and that he'll find it just to the right of the Mut temple, buried under the heap of earthquake debris at the base of the pinnacle.

Now, a drilling expedition under way in the Indian Ocean hopes to uncover the secrets of large underwater earthquakes that can trigger such tsunamis.

Engineers had a clue from earlier earthquakes about what might cause buildings to tilt: Under certain conditions, soil can liquefy, turning into a gooey jelly that can no longer support the weight above.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The Indian subcontinent is pushing under the Tibetan Plateau at roughly 1.8 meters per century, but it regularly gets stuck; when the obstruction gives way, a section of the Tibetan plate lurches a few meters southward and releases the pent - up energy in an earthquake.

Northern Chile, near the border with Peru, was the only stretch of the country's coastline that had not broken in a large earthquake in the past century (see «Under pressure»).

The team also showed that calcite associated with two seismic events in the earthquake cluster indicates very rapid carbon dioxide degassing, which can occur when fluid under high pressure is released — like opening the top of a shaken bottle of soda.

«For example, a clay or shale layer can be impermeable, but if fractured during an earthquake, could release mud and water that was under pressure below the layer.

The equipment was used to measure the velocity and direction of different sound waves generated by earthquakes as they traveled under Sierra Negra.

That came under harsh scrutiny after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011.

According to the researcher, the approach currently used to analyse seismic risk is not fully correct and, in fact, there are many risk maps which are downright incorrect, «which is what happened with the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, where the area contained an under - dimensioned risk.»

Under the right conditions, that pressure can be released as an earthquake.

Fracking - related activities might be more likely to trigger an earthquake in an area that was already under stress, according to Roland Bürgmann, a geophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Monju's design basis earthquake ground motion (S2 under the Old Guidelines and Ss under the New Guidelines) was subsequently increased from 466 Gal to 760 Gal.

Reduction of the weight of the mountain ice caps may have allowed the subcontinent to slip under more easily causing the earthquake.

Located in an area that has ruptured six times since 1857, the hole provided the first opportunity to observe directly the conditions under which earthquakes occur, to collect rocks and fluids from the fault zone for laboratory study, and to continuously monitor the physical condition within an active earthquake nucleation zone.