Sentences with phrase «earthquakes affect the region»

These scenarios explain how these earthquakes affect the region and the damage and losses that have occurred or could occur in the future.

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2015.04.27 RBC donates $ 75,000 to the Canadian Red Cross for Nepal earthquake relief RBC Foundation announced today a $ 75,000 donation to the Canadian Red Cross to support relief efforts for those affected by the earthquake in Nepal and surrounding regions...

«We saw so many people affected by the earthquake that were sleeping outside without any shelter from mosquitoes, so we were worrying that the region's changing climate could facilitate the spread of diseases,» she said.

The type of damage sustained by temples clustered around two towns in the region — Chamba and Bharmour — suggests that the Chamba temples may have been affected by the 1555 earthquake, while the Bharmour temples were damaged by the 1905 quake, the seismologists conclude.

So to predict how an earthquake would affect infrastructure in the San Francisco region, researchers might look at a past event that was about the same size — it might even have happened somewhere else — and use those observations to predict ground motion in San Francisco.

Joan Gomberg, an earthquake seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Memphis, Tennessee, says that these kinds of observations may give seismologists clues to how other regions of the world may be affected by long - distance seismic events.

Part of this effort should focus on events that have the potential to affect large geographic regions and multiple nuclear plants, including earthquakes, tsunamis and other geographically extensive floods, and geomagnetic disturbances.

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We also review the hazards associated with earthquakes — the ground shaking, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), landslides and tsunami that can follow an earthquake and affect residents, homes, businesses and the economy of a region.

The culminating training event used the real life events of last year's devastating Nepal earthquake and injected a veterinarian aspect requiring the veterinarians to assess the economic impact to the rural regions affected by the earthquake and to prepare courses of action for crisis management to include livestock.

Available on the Internet and continually being supplemented, it consists of recorded conversations with people from the regions affected by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.

Statistically, lightning is the most commonly experienced weather hazard, unlike earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes or hurricanes, which are more likely to affect homeowners in certain geographical regions of the country.