Sentences with phrase «ground shaking»

Don't worry it's nothing ground shaking, we aren't getting our own HGTV show (because that seems to be the trend lately), but something to me on a much deeper level, and I can't wait to share more on that tomorrow.

Edifier today introduced the S550 ENCORE 5.1 Multimedia Speaker System, which features two, 10 - inch super bass drivers producing 120 Watts each, creating ground shaking audio.

These are a subset of more than 800,000 permitted UIC wells nationwide that serve the needs of many different industries and governmental entities.22 The majority of disposal wells in the United States do not pose a hazard for induced seismicity, but under some geologic and reservoir conditions a limited number of injection wells have been determined to be responsible for induced earthquakes with felt levels of ground shaking.

In one case, a poorly constructed new addition appears to be the cause of collapse; in other cases, unexpectedly strong ground shaking contributed to the problem; and in most cases, the building code was not sufficiently enforced.

In many remote locales, as in the Solomon Islands or the Mentawais, residents now know to self evacuate when they feel strong ground shaking, and do not wait for official warnings.

It also feels cool to stomp about in a life - sized suit of power armor, the ground shaking as you walk.

In Q4 of 2017, we stressed the impact of what some might say was the most ground shaking mortgage rule change Canada has seen.

Promoting the Audi brand and the Pirelli World Challenge program, the ground shaking R8 LMS was on display for dealership customers and drivers were in attendance to sign autographs for fans.

The return of the iconic Dodge Challenger brings what pony car fanatics crave: ground shaking performance, unmistakable design cues reminiscent of the original Challenger, world - class ride and handling characteristics and benchmark braking.

The 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 offered all that pony - car fanatics crave: ground shaking performance, unmistakable design cues reminiscent of the original Challenger, world - class ride and handling characteristics and benchmark braking.

By comparison to the build - up, the first corner of the race was relatively drama - free — if you don't count the thunderous, ground shaking noise of 50 race cars bouncing off the walls, that is.

The LFEs are powerful and hit hard when there are explosions of ground shaking moments.

Don't worry it's nothing ground shaking, we aren't getting our own HGTV show (because that seems to be the trend lately), but something to me on a much deeper level, and I can't wait to share more on that tomorrow.

The objective of earthquake early warning is to rapidly detect the initiation of an earthquake, estimate the level of ground shaking to be expected, and issue a warning before significant ground shaking starts.

We use this to estimate the anticipated ground shaking across the region to be affected.

Earthquakes cause a variety of earthquake hazards, including ground shaking, landslides, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking) and tsunami.

Ground shaking was felt throughout the Willamette Valley, from Roseburg, Oregon to Seattle.

These generated ground shaking strong enough to feel in Kathmandu, and the M5.3 quake was felt on the Ganges plain in northern India.

This wide - spread ground shaking combined with accompanying elevation changes and the likely generation of a tsunami along the Pacific coast, will cause loss of life, property damage, and business interruption in vulnerable locations throughout southwestern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northwestern California.

A unique aspect of a great Cascadia subduction earthquake is the strong likelihood that the three greater metropolitan areas of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver will simultaneously feel the effects of strong and sustained ground shaking.

His research has focused on imaging and modeling active faults throughout the continental U.S. and Alaska, and on the influence of shallow deposits on ground shaking.

«It got slightly less ground shaking [than Sluice Pond] in 1755, but it might have been affected by a 1638 earthquake in southern New Hampshire,» Monecke explained.

The purpose of the ShakeAlert ™ system is to identify and characterize an earthquake a few seconds after it begins, calculate the likely intensity of ground shaking that will result, and deliver warnings to people and infrastructure in harm's way.

These include ground shaking, landslides, liquefaction, and in some areas, tsunamis.

For example, ground shaking may cause a store's exterior building walls to crumble, injuring people, blocking sidewalks and streets and bringing down utility lines.

Ground shaking describes the vibration of the ground during an earthquake.

Liquefaction: Liquefaction describes the way in which soil liquefies during ground shaking.

We also review the hazards associated with earthquakes — the ground shaking, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), landslides and tsunami that can follow an earthquake and affect residents, homes, businesses and the economy of a region.

These include hazard maps at national, state and (in some cases) local scales that show the potential for ground shaking from future earthquakes.

UC Berkeley scientists today are releasing a free Android app that taps a smartphone's ability to record ground shaking from an earthquake, with the goal of creating a worldwide seismic det...

People can escape tsunamis by moving to higher ground or far inland after ground shaking stops.

Then, the anticipated ground shaking across the region to be affected is estimated and a warning is provided to local populations.

Ground shaking: Ground shaking is both a hazard created by earthquakes and the trigger for other hazards such as liquefaction and landslides.

Depending on where you live in the Cascadia region, an earthquake may cause ground shaking, landslides, soil liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking), tsunamis, fires, hazardous material spills and building damage.

«I research things like how the near - surface soil and rocks influence the level and the characteristics of ground shaking, which is a very important phenomenon that can impact the amount of damage that can occur.»

Her interest extends to the «secondary» geohazards that ground shaking can cause, such as landslides and liquefaction.

Another factor is the speed of ground shaking.

Scientists rely on the public's reporting of ground shaking to characterize the intensity of ground motion produced by an earthquake.

A «nightmare scenario», he says, is a massive tsunami following a powerful but slow - rupturing quake that causes little or no ground shaking, because people often then ignore any warnings.

Any dam being built during this government - funded boom, as well as those already completed, must be able to withstand the strong ground shaking of an extreme earthquake, says Martin Wieland of the International Commission on Large Dams, a group of engineers that makes recommendations for structural standards.

«But what end users really care about is how severe the ground shaking will be at their location, so we also are now testing algorithms that could provide these data,» Kohler said.

Earthquake early warning systems detect the initiation of an earthquake and issue warning alerts of possible forthcoming ground shaking.

Not only will citizen scientists add valuable information on the extent of ground shaking and damage, but in the process USGS hopes citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities fared and gain a greater understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

Although the main earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 broke the central section of the seismic gap of a length of some 100 kilometres, two large segments further north and south remain intact, and these segments are able to cause strong earthquakes with a high risk of ground shaking and tsunamis.Oncken: «This means that the risk of one or even several earthquakes with a magnitude clearly above 8 still exists.»

«A mountainous and rocky setting is more characteristic of not as much ground shaking, opposed to abundant sediments... where there's a potential for higher ground shaking,» he said.

Many people understand the damage that can be caused to structures, roads, bridges and utilities by ground shaking in these long - lasting types of earthquakes, such as the one that's anticipated on the Cascadia Subduction Zone between northern California and British Columbia.

The amplification of ground shaking, directivity of seismic energy and geological features that may affect ground motion are very important to the outcome of ground failure, say authors.

But what we can do is predict the damaging ground shaking just before it arrives and provide seconds to minutes of warning.

But the ground shaking had originated at North Korea's nuclear weapons test site.

This work is vital for understanding risk exposure in these countries from both ground shaking and tsunamis.»