Sentences with phrase «from large quakes»

T - Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco.

For locations far from a large quake's origin, waiting for clear signs of risk before sending an alert may mean waiting too long for people to be able to take protective action.

Not exact matches

So far they have mapped the natural geologic stresses throughout Oklahoma and Texas — the states with the largest populations at risk from human - induced quakes — and have discovered that only a fraction of faults hold the potential to slip in the presence of moderate pressure increases.

But the release of stress from this latest quake does not relieve the risk of an even larger earthquake expected further north.

The mapped surface rupture was unusually large for a moderate quake, extending nearly eight miles from Cuttings Wharf in the south to just west of Alston Park in the north.

In a recent paper in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, geologist Colin Amos of Western Washington University and colleagues found that an 1872 quake hundreds of miles from the SAF was among the largest in California history, reaching 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scale.

Science answers: From past quakes, an estimate of the likely largest aftershock can be made.

The Japanese system, which began operation on October 1, has already provided warnings from two large quakes.

The largest quake detected occurred on April 16 in Ecuador: a 7.8 magnitude quake that triggered two phones, 170 and 200 kilometers from the epicenter.

The changes raised the estimated likelihood of a magnitude - 8 or larger quake in California over the next 30 years from 4.7 % to 7 %.

Stephen R. Quake, Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. $ 1.8 million (3 years) «High - Throughput, Single - Molecule DNA Sequencing» This group will try to improve its sequencing - by - synthesis technology in order to achieve longer reads from very large numbers of single DNA molecules.

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Images from the European Space Agency show that icebergs, some larger than Manhattan island, broke away from Antarctica just a few days after the quake.