Sentences with phrase «giant earthquakes in»

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

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.

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.»

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In that city is a giant cathedral that was completely flattened by the earthquake.

Takhirov's colleagues and students used their giant actuators to imitate how earthquake forces would deform the building, but they were doing it in slow motion.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

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 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.

In the study entitled «The effect of giant lateral collapses on magma pathways and the location of volcanism,» authored by F. Maccaferri, N. Richter and T. Walter, all working at GFZ, in section 2.1 (Physics of earthquakes and volcanoes), the propagation path of magmatic intrusions underneath a volcanic edifice has been simulated by means of a mathematical modeIn the study entitled «The effect of giant lateral collapses on magma pathways and the location of volcanism,» authored by F. Maccaferri, N. Richter and T. Walter, all working at GFZ, in section 2.1 (Physics of earthquakes and volcanoes), the propagation path of magmatic intrusions underneath a volcanic edifice has been simulated by means of a mathematical modein section 2.1 (Physics of earthquakes and volcanoes), the propagation path of magmatic intrusions underneath a volcanic edifice has been simulated by means of a mathematical model.

The epicenter of China's devastating Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was in the Wolong Nature Reserve, a globally important valuable biodiversity hotspot and home to the beloved and endangered giant pandas.

«One may figuratively compare resonances within the nucleus to what happens during an earthquake, where all buildings vibrate in a more or less consistent rhythm, just like neutrons in a giant resonance.

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

Such waves will propagate through the planetary interiors, allowing giant planet seismology to constrain internal structure in much the same way as done for our planet using earthquakes.

Right on target with expectations are the repeated sequences of characters outrunning all sorts of things, like the giant chasms caused by earthquakes, rocketing fireballs, and plumes of smoke and ash, while on foot, in cars, and airborne.

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Players take hold of a random «hero» and wreak havoc in twisted post-apocalyptic Southwest Tokyo; freak earthquakes not just threw the world into chaos, but also resulted in the severance of South Tokyo into its own island partnered with a giant cloud - piercing spire.

In the last fifty years, this type of plate boundary produced three giant earthquakes, Chile, in 1960, Alaska, in 1964 and Sumatra in 200In the last fifty years, this type of plate boundary produced three giant earthquakes, Chile, in 1960, Alaska, in 1964 and Sumatra in 200in 1960, Alaska, in 1964 and Sumatra in 200in 1964 and Sumatra in 200in 2004.

A set of past events pointing toward 21rst Century risks explored in the book: Waking the Giant — How Climate Change Triggers Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis.