Sentences with phrase «earthquake zone areas»

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.

Not exact matches

In fact, most areas in the affected zone would be able to ride out a high - magnitude earthquake and would be out of the way of the tsunami expected to follow, according to Bill Steele, director of outreach and communications for the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

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

In April an independent panel of geologists, seismologists, and engineers commissioned by an advisory group to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) published a report [pdf] disputing earlier claims that the seismic strain in the area had dissipated, concluding instead that the New Madrid Seismic Zone is «at significant risk for damaging earthquakes.»

According to reporting in Scientific American's sister publication Nature, minutes of the meeting show that the researchers were in fact much more circumspect, saying things such as «a major earthquake in the area is unlikely but can not be ruled out» and «because L'Aquila is in a high - risk zone it is impossible to say with certainty that there will be no large earthquake.»

A magnitude - 9.0 earthquake would likely give way along the whole north - south extent of the subduction zone, but it's not well known how far east the shake - producing area would extend, approaching the area beneath major cities such as Seattle and Portland.

«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.

«The implication of a confirmed subduction zone is that in addition to the Queen Charlotte Fault, we now have another source which can produce devastating megathrust earthquakes in the area,» said Kao.

This is also supported by the fact that the fracture zone of the last strong earthquake in the region, in 1999, ended precisely in this area — probably at the same structure, which has been impeding the progressive shift of the Anatolian plate in the south against the Eurasian plate in the north since 1766 and building up pressure.

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A new analysis suggests that massive earthquakes on northern sections of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, affecting areas of the Pacific Northwest that are more heavily populated, are somewhat more frequent than has been believed in the past.

Immediately after the earthquake, the agency sent another vessel, Kairei, to deploy ocean bottom seismometers in the area of the earthquake to monitor aftershocks and get a better understanding of the fault zone.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

Location map of Sumatra, Indonesia, depicting rupture areas for the AD 2004 and 2005 subduction zone earthquakes.

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.

Homeowners who have their property situated in high risk areas like districts with high crime rate or earthquake prone zones end up paying premium which totals a few thousand dollars at the end of the year.

Also, homes in areas that are prone to earthquakes or in flood zones can considerably raise your rates.

Recurring floods in a particular area lead to hike in insurance premium, earthquake prone zones have higher insurance costs.

If the home is located in an area designated as a disaster zone or an area prone to floods, hurricanes or earthquakes, additional coverage that protects your home against these scenarios is also mandatory.

«The area where the ground actually fails in a particular earthquake may be only a small proportion of the total area in the zone.»