Sentences with phrase «high magnitude quake»

Occasionally, however, a high magnitude quake does occur.

Not exact matches

And it's good timing: The planet appears to be experiencing an uptick in high - magnitude quakes.

Had seismographs been available at the time, scientists believe those tremors would have registered magnitudes at least as great as the 7.0 quake that devastated Haiti in 2010 and possibly as high as 8.0.

According to the USGS, the chances of a quake of magnitude 6 or higher within the next half - century are between 25 and 40 percent.

Quakes that are confined to the uppermost region of the Juan de Fuca plate — the crust — have an upper magnitude of about 7, while quakes extending to the mantle level below the crust could have magnitudes as high as 8 on the Richter scale — 30 times more energy than a magnitude 7 Quakes that are confined to the uppermost region of the Juan de Fuca plate — the crust — have an upper magnitude of about 7, while quakes extending to the mantle level below the crust could have magnitudes as high as 8 on the Richter scale — 30 times more energy than a magnitude 7 quakes extending to the mantle level below the crust could have magnitudes as high as 8 on the Richter scale — 30 times more energy than a magnitude 7 quake.

Although the study did not address when the quake might occur, it's possible it could register a magnitude of 8.2 or higher.

They found eight instances in which quakes of magnitude 8 or higher were followed the same day by at least one eruption within 750 kilometers.

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.

That's because the larger surface - wave magnitudes record low - frequency energy, while Richter and coda magnitudes are based on high - frequency seismic waves that people usually feel during real quakes.

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..

On March 11, a powerful, magnitude 9.0 quake hit northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10 - meter - high waves that reached the U.S. west coast.

In the early evening of Tuesday, 1 April, a magnitude - 8.2 quake occurred off the coast of northern Chile, killing six people, generating 2 - meter - high waves, and prompting the evacuation of nearly 1 million coastal residents.

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.

It will take time to determine whether the iPad causes a tremor in the e-reader market, a high - magnitude quake or something in between.

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.

These policies are designed chiefly to protect homeowners from catastrophic destruction to their homes that may be caused by a high - magnitude quake.