Sentences with phrase «giant earthquake»

Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do — for tectonic plates, that is.

Douglas Wiens, a geophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the 2012 expedition, also hopes for clues to whether anything more than luck explains the lack of giant earthquakes at the Mariana Trench.

When it was first discovered, many scientists thought Cascadia's fault was incapable of generating giant earthquakes.

He adds that «to have the Indian and Himalayan plates unzip to remove the geologic stress requires one or more giant earthquakes to occur.»

After the immense damage and human suffering wrought by the quake and tsunami, he knows that this weekend's events have also given scientists like him an unprecedented opportunity to study how giant earthquakes occur.

Two centuries ago, a series of giant earthquakes rocked the tiny town of New Madrid, Missouri, collapsing chimneys and shaking houses more than 1000 kilometers away.

If they are right, then in less than a million years giant earthquakes will be rocking the eastern coast of North America.

(Two giant earthquakes last April, for example, set off small tsunamis that caused no destruction.)

When any two plates grind against each and get stuck, enormous stress builds up until the rocks fracture and the fault rips apart in a giant earthquake.

The lock holding the spring will break, propelling the Himalaya southward in a giant earthquake.»

His recently unveiled computer model shows that a giant earthquake in that area could create up to 20 - foot waves that would wash over the coastline.

Giant earthquakes, says Okal, tend to put much of their extra energy into slower, long - period vibrations, rather than adding to the strength of the 1 - hertz - frequency vibrations most effective at knocking down walls.

Over the last decade Lay and his colleagues have been able to gather fine details about these giant earthquakes using data from an expanded global networks of seismometers, GPS stations, tsunami gauges, and new satellite imaging capabilities such as GRACE, InSAR, and LandSAT interferometry.

March 30, 2011 • It's estimated that the cost of damage from the giant earthquake and tsunami in Japan could exceed $ 300 billion.

Following the «cataclysmic» that rocks Gotham in its upcoming season finale — which, given that it's named «No Man's Land,» could be a giant earthquake in reference to the similar events that happen in the comic of the same name — executive producer Danny Canon stated season five is «a different show.»

My concern is not a giant earthquake that destroys my house.

A giant earthquake, measuring 8.0 and four Tsunamis rumbled through Samoa, Sept. 29, killing at least 200 people.

Istanbul is a sitting duck for a giant earthquake that everyone knows is coming.

In the last fifty years, this type of plate boundary produced three giant earthquakes, Chile, in 1960, Alaska, in 1964 and Sumatra in 2004.

Sumatra's 2004 earthquake should have been a wake - up call; giant earthquakes can occur on any subduction zone, and such events will likely be accompanied by very large tsunamis.

They will come in unpredictable clumps, like the giant earthquakes that have been unusually frequent in the past decade.

By Ed Caryl The Washington Post just published an alarmist article titled: Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why.