Sentences with phrase «high magnitude earthquake»

Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake can cause.

As you can see, it wasn't so long ago that a high magnitude earthquake struck Indiana.

Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake can cause.

Not exact matches

An apocalyptically - worded story in the latest issue of the New Yorker detailed the devastation that might result from a high - magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that runs from Cape Mendocino, Calif., to Vancouver Island, Canada.

In fact, most areas in the affected zone would be able to ride out a high - magnitude earthquake and would be out of the way of the tsunami expected to follow, according to Bill Steele, director of outreach and communications for the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

This is a photograph of damage to Helena High School, which collapsed following a major aftershock of the 1935 Helena magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Montana.

Cascadia's fault can and will generate the same kind of earthquake we saw last year: magnitude 9 or higher.

The 25 April 2015 moment magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Gorkha, Nepal was the first large continental megathrust rupture to have occurred beneath a high - rate (5 - hertz) Global Positioning System (GPS) network.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or higher would stop the land from rising and also likely would bring about additional sea - level growth of 1 to 2 meters (3.3 to 6.6 feet) in the area, he said.

Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.

Tom Parsons, a seismologist also with the USGS in Menlo Park, and colleague Aaron Velasco, of the University of Texas at El Paso, analyzed the USGS earthquake database to see if temblors of magnitude 7 and higher might have triggered midsized quakes elsewhere in the world.

The Istanbul - Marmara region of northwestern Turkey with a population of more than 15 million faces a high probability of being exposed to an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more.

So after a 9.0 - magnitude earthquake and tsunami waves struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant on 11 March 2011, it was no wonder that one of Asimo's fans tweeted, «Can't Asimo be dispatched to survey the interior of Unit 4, where radiation is too high for human workers?»

Hitting the planet at a speed of 20 kilometers per second, the 37 - to 58 - kilometer - wide space rock could have jolted Earth with at least the force of a magnitude 10.8 earthquake and set off tsunamis thousands of meters high, researchers report April 14 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

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.»

The system works because smaller earthquakes tend to send out high - frequency p waves whereas large - magnitude events radiate lower frequency energy.

A high - magnitude earthquake in Japan, one notion goes, might redistribute stress in Earth's crust, subsequently triggering another temblor in the following months or years — a quake that could even strike as far away as the western shores of the U.S..

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators found that when stress exerted on Earth's crust was high, the levels of a helium isotope, helium - 4, released in the groundwater was also high at sites near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 quake in southwestern Japan, which caused 50 fatalities and serious damage.

Avouac and his colleagues found that for such a large - magnitude earthquake, high - frequency shaking in Kathmandu was actually relatively mild.

Although the Richter scale has no upper limit, the most devastating earthquakes it measures have magnitudes of 8.0 or higher.

For example, scientists estimate that within 50 years, there is an 84 % chance of a magnitude 6.5 (M6.5) or higher earthquake in the Puget Sound region.

There are 42 states at risk for earthquakes, out of which 16 have registered magnitude 6 or greater quakes on the Richter scale and are considered high - risk.

Because residents of the Battle Born State are no strangers to earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher and deal with aftershocks and tremors on a regular basis, they should consider having earthquake insurance.

Nevada ranks third in the United States for seismological activity with earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher.

The tsunami was triggered by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska, and waves as high as 27 feet hit the Pacific Northwest coastline.

That is why the death toll in the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake near Katmandu today is almost certainly going to be far higher than initial reports of hundreds.

I would be interested in your comments on the ARkStorm evaluation of 3x higher damage than the 7.8 magnitude earthquake study.

Sure enough, according to the USGS study, «Oklahoma is by far the worst - hit state recently... [t] he state last year had more magnitude 3 (or higher) earthquakes than California, part of a huge increase recorded in recent years.»

Because residents of the Battle Born State are no strangers to earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher and deal with aftershocks and tremors on a regular basis, they should consider having earthquake insurance.

Nevada ranks third in the United States for seismological activity with earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or higher.