Sentences with phrase «expect big earthquakes»

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An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

«We need to assume there will occasionally be earthquakes bigger than we are expecting.

Yet some combination of factors made the Tohoku - Oki earthquake bigger and with a more deadly tsunami than scientists expected.

Japan's «Big One», a major earthquake with an expected magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale is expected imminently in the region.

But the earthquake was not the «Big One» that seismologists had expected.