Sentences with phrase «epicenter causing»

They were close to the neural epicenter causing the uncontrollable tremors.

Not exact matches

These blasts would have incinerated everything within 1.77 square miles of their epicenters while causing third - degree burns up to an area of 1,090 square miles.

Schumer says Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley are epicenters of diseases caused by deer ticks and public health officials in those areas need money as soon as possible to improve prevention efforts.

If Grimm and Malliotakis have cause to be upset, it is that the mayor proposed no injection sites for Staten Island, the epicenter of the city's opioid crisis.

The tragedies caused by prescription drug abuse, addictions, overdoses and ruined lives are not unique to New York state, but Assemblyman Michael Cusick realized a couple years ago that Staten Island, where his district is located, could be considered the epicenter of the problem.

NEW ZEALAND / / / EARTHQUAKE With an epicenter 6 miles from downtown, the Christchurch quake in February took 181 lives and caused $ 12 billion in damages despite having a magnitude of just 6.3.

The trials will wrap up in mid-August when the researchers will shake the unoccupied structure with forces comparable to those at the epicenter of the catastrophic 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, which claimed dozens of lives and caused billions of dollars in damage.

More than 2000 aftershocks in the region around the epicenter, a mountainous area some 100 kilometers northeast of Rome, have caused only minor damage.

They ripple out from the epicenter several seconds ahead of S (or secondary) waves, which cause the shaking and damage that we recognize as an earthquake.

The epicenter of the April 25 event was located in the Gorkha District of Nepal, 75 kilometers to the west - northwest of Kathmandu, and propagated eastward at a rate of about 2.8 kilometers per second, causing slip in the north - south direction — a progression that the researchers describe as «unzipping» a section of the locked fault.

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators found that when stress exerted on Earth's crust was high, the levels of a helium isotope, helium - 4, released in the groundwater was also high at sites near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 quake in southwestern Japan, which caused 50 fatalities and serious damage.

Health authorities are increasingly convinced that the mosquito - borne virus has caused microcephaly in hundreds of babies in Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika outbreak that is sweeping through the Americas.

The tsunami was caused by a Megathrust quake with an epicenter at the head of glacier - ringed College Fiord, 75 miles from the town of Chenega.

The sweeping views of the dreamy surrounding landscape and villages that have caused Civita Castellana to become an epicenter of plein air painting for more than 300 years have now served as Hershberg's source of inspiration for the works in this new show.

The burst of energy created out of impact or internal pressure causes objects in and around a rupture's epicenter to break suddenly and violently apart.

People's attention is focused on the San Andreas fault; they forget the New Madrid fault system, with its epicenter not far south of St. Louis, that ripped loose in the early 1800s and caused the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America.

It was also more intense, causing higher tree mortality and having three major epicenters, whereas the 2005 drought was mainly focused in the southwestern Amazon.

One striking fact about the increase in daily earthquakes here in Oklahoma (which prompted speculation that fracing caused quakes,) is that the region experiencing those daily quakes has moved from an apparent epicenter a few miles East and NorthEast of centrally located Oklahoma City, to many miles North and Northwest of OKC.