Sentences with phrase «earthquake zone»

It's also significantly harder for countries in earthquake zones with corruption problems to enforce their building codes.

If you are residing in earthquake zone areas and looking for that peace of mind to be protected financially in the event of any damage then insurance is definitely a good purchase.

Users can type in an address or share their location to see the nearest high - risk earthquake zone.

His goal is to help develop design standards for engineers building in earthquake zones.

The combination of population growth and humanity's current transition to being an urban species is creating a building boom in cities within known earthquake zones.

This state lies just outside the boundary of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ), the most active earthquake zone in the Southeastern United States.

The problem is that the instruments in many earthquake zones aren't good enough to record the cascade of deformations and activity that would link one major quake with another.

Mexico City fast became one of the best - studied earthquake zones in the world and scientists now know that buildings of these heights reacted to the particular frequency generated by the shake - amplifying landfill.

The combination of dense populations and poverty seen in Haiti's capital is replicated in dozens of earthquake zones worldwide, from the Philippines and Indonesia to the foothills of the Himalayas to Tehran and Istanbul, so many seismologists warn that this century is primed for many more such disasters.

Not Your Average Earthquake Zones Earthquakes are not restricted to tectonic plate boundaries.

«Japanese earthquake zone strongly influenced by the effects of friction: Researchers identify strong influence of pre-existing fault and plate structure on earthquake location and behavior in the Nankai Trough offshore of Japan.»

Researchers from MIT and Turkey have found evidence for both types of behavior on different segments of the North Anatolian Fault — one of the most energetic earthquake zones in the world.

Earthquakes can strike even in stable crust, well away from the familiar earthquake zones at the edges of tectonic plates.

Updates in brackets In the world's crowded earthquake zones, from the Himalayas to the Pacific Northwest, every community faces enormous challenges in designing for inevitable, but unpredictable jolts.

[Oct. 24, 5:17 p.m. Updated The head of the office of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, a United Nations body, has said that the collapse of almost 1,000 buildings «underlines the importance of providing the right incentives and information to builders and [property] owners in the world's most dangerous earthquake zones.»]

The entire Japanese archipelago is a very active earthquake zone as it sits on the convergence of four separate tectonic plates including the infamous Ring of Fire.

And Ontario is adjacent to many earthquakes zones.

The best - known earthquake zones — California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Intermountain West — still dominate the hazard picture.

John Pickrell's description of the use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar to study earthquake zones was interesting (2 September, p...

This zone is the most active earthquake zone in the Southeastern United States.

Douglas Wiens, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Patrick Shore, staff scientist and lecturer in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will collaborate with eight other institutions on a $ 4.5 million National Science Foundation study of a volatile volcano and earthquake zone on the sea floor off the Alaskan Peninsula.

In a sense, these results are more like the tremors felt in an earthquake zone: A sign that something larger is on its way, and that the tectonic plates beneath the industry are shifting.

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a...

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a medical team and others to assist in the recovery effort.

If you were to build a house in an earthquake zone you certainly would invest in someone who could build you a solid home, not someone who claims to predict when the earthquake is going to hit.

The Asian firm is considering lending U.S. homebuilder Lennar $ 1.7 billion to construct two housing projects, according to the Wall Street Journal — one of them on a polluted man - made island in an earthquake zone.

China Development Bank may lend Lennar $ 1.7 bln to build two housing projects - one on a polluted man - made island in an earthquake zone.

If you live in a flood plain, hurricane zone, or earthquake zone, it makes sense to prepare for the possibility that a disaster will happen.

There we ate our picnic lunch and fell into a rambling conversation about politics, real estate values in an earthquake zone, and the virtues of sauvignon blanc over Chardonnay.

People who live on floodplains, earthquake zones, and tornado - prone areas should either build accordingly or get the hell out.

I live in an earthquake zone.

«Although it's obviously absolutely right to say we don't live in an earthquake zone, there may, for example, be lessons to be learned over the back - up facilities for cooling,» he said.

After many missions to earthquake zones, Rossetto was surprised to discover that while many inhabitants have little confidence in the integrity of the buildings around them, they do little to protect themselves.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

Currently, the GFZ is intensifying its activity to monitor the earthquake zone in front of Istanbul.

Should buildings in earthquake zones be designed to float?

Battelle officials say they picked the North Dakota site — 8 hectares of state - owned land approximately 25 kilometers south of the county seat of Rugby — because it was far from any active earthquake zones, had the kind of solid crystalline «basement» rock the government wanted, and wasn't near oil and gas drilling.

Their patented device is to connect neutron sensors in earthquake zones to a digital counter which monitors its readings and triggers an alarm if the level soars.

Peng and Xiaofeng Meng, a graduate student at Georgia Tech, then compared the aftershocks» timing to atmospheric - pressure readings in the earthquake zone, testing their hypothesis that a decrease in pressure caused by the storm's travel up the East Coast might have reduced forces on the fault enough to allow it to slip.

Indian geophysicists have drilled a seven - km deep borehole in this earthquake zone and have established an on - the - spot observatory to study earthquakes.

Unfortunately I now don't have it on me as it wasn't really on my mind when leaving the earthquake zones (let me know if you want me to write a piece on living with a temporary capsule wardrobe), but I know once it's back in my possession I'll be styling it up once again.

Oh, there are a couple lines here and there about how they shouldn't build skyscrapers in earthquake zones, but it doesn't amount to anything.

Insurance costs can also rise over time, and you may need supplemental insurance if you live in a flood or earthquake zone.