Sentences with phrase «happened during the earthquake»

Our results provide a more accurate understanding of what happens during earthquake sliding that can lead to better computer models and could lead to better predictions of seismic shaking danger.»

«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.

Not exact matches

For families living in disaster - prone areas, where the threat of a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or wildfire is constant, especially during some times of the year, the realization is that it could happen to them next.

The hope is for better understanding of how tectonic stress decays and accumulates during long periods of time — and to potentially estimate when an earthquake could happen.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

For example, during clusters on the San Andreas, big earthquakes happened only about 50 years apart, while the clusters are separated by several hundred years.

18 January 2018 — There is an enduring myth that large earthquakes tend to happen during certain phases of the Moon or at certain times during the year.

That was the one big earthquake that happened during post, losing him, because he was everything.

The #IAmInBaliNOW campaigned is modeled after a similar successful scheme, that was both tried and tested during a devastating earthquake that happened in Nepal back in spring of 2015.