Sentences with phrase «enough about earthquake»

We know enough about earthquake engineering at this point that we can actually extrapolate how a second story might behave based on what the first story does when it is slowly crushed by giant motors.

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In the months leading up to the synod, both progressives and traditionalists, and even some seasoned Vatican reporters, were assuring us of the momentous events about to take place: And sure enough, after the synod commenced, as if to fulfill their own prophecies, words and phrases like «revolution,» «earthquake,» and «seismic shifts,» filled their commentaries.

AS IF people caught in earthquakes did not have enough to worry about, it now seems that survivors may have an above - average chance of suffering a heart attack soon afterwards.

Set up as an old - style disaster movie with only a fraction of the plot, this earthquake action adventure is preposterous enough to just about work as a guilty pleasure.

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)

We would then conclude that the southern part of the Concepción — Constitución gap has accumulated a slip deficit that is large enough to produce a very large earthquake of about Mw = 8.0 — 8.5.

Burgmann isn't too worried about sea level rise causing more earthquakes or volcanic eruptions though, noting that catastrophic rates of sea level rise in the future are uncertain and that the current rate of rise — about 0.12 inches per year (3 millimeters per year)-- isn't enough to destabilize the crust.