Sentences with phrase «history of earthquakes»

If you have a history of earthquakes in your area, or you want to be protected from earthquake damage in the future, consider purchasing an earthquake insurance policy.

For notable earthquakes in your area, please see History of Earthquakes in Cascadia and learn more about the different kinds of earthquakes that affect our region.

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The ruins of the earthquake at Lisbon, for example: the whole of past history had to be planned exactly as it was to bring about in the fullness of time just that particular arrangement of debris of masonry, furniture, and once living bodies.

What about the earthquakes and the famines, and the unmentionable things done by men to each other «in the name of God» from the dawn of history?

Walt's Foreign Policy article is flawed because it ignores this corrective aspect of American history, just as it downplays American generosity: whenever a catastrophe strikes the world — an earthquake, tsunami, famine, epidemic, or emerging genocide — America is the first to be called upon.

After the devastating 1989 northern California earthquake destroyed the Embarcadero Freeway — the double - decker elevated highway that had blocked off the Ferry Building from the rest of the city for three and a half decades — an opportunity arose for the people of San Francisco to reclaim a piece of their history and get a bustling food market in the bargain.

When the question is asked as to who is the most prolific goal scorer in the history of the San Jose Earthquakes, the obvious answer is Chris Wondolowski.

When the San Jose Earthquakes signed Gilbert Fuentes to a multi-year Homegrown player contract in January, they were proud to announce that, at 15 years of age, the U.S. youth international was the youngest signing in club history.

The history of New England's most damaging earthquake is written in the mud beneath a Massachusetts pond.

SHAKEN UP In 1964, the largest recorded earthquake in North American history shook Alaska to its core (damage in Anchorage, shown) and provided proof of tectonic plate movement.

Drawing on a centuries - long history of quakes of magnitude 7 to 8 rupturing various parts of the fault, members of the official Earthquake Research Committee had divided the offshore fault into six segments, each roughly 150 kilometers long, that they expected to rupture again.

The 11 March 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki megathrust earthquake just off the Eastern coast of Japan was one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history.

You're saying that places like northern and central Oklahoma are becoming potentially as hazardous as places like the New Madrid region near Memphis, Tennessee, and Charleston, South Carolina, which have a history of highly damaging earthquakes?

The 11 March 2011 magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan was one of the largest recorded earthquakes in history.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

To search for evidence of historical earthquakes in Bhutan, geophysicist György Hetényi of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and his collaborators examined published accounts of Bhutanese history and original documents written by monks and temple builders.

She offers a fascinating history of how catastrophic natural events — including the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Iceland's Laki volcanic eruption in 1783 (SN: 2/17/15, p. 29) and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — have shaped politics, culture and society.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

The time history of quasi-static slip along the plate interface, based on small repeating earthquakes that were part of the migrating seismicity, suggests that two sequences involved slow - slip transients propagating toward the initial rupture point.

«What is clear is that for the 6.2 years since 2004, there have been more great earthquakes around the world than in any 6.2 - year period throughout the 110 - year history of seismic recordings,» says Thorne Lay at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Two journalists combine history, science and storytelling to recount the experiences of those who experienced the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its aftermath

Such sequences of closely timed, nearly overlapping, consecutive earthquakes account for devastating seismic events in Italy's history and should be taken into account when building new structures, according to research published in the September issue of the journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

«Having no recorded history of mega tsunamis in Hawai'i, and given the tsunami threat to Hawai'i, we devised a model for Magnitude 9 earthquake rates following upon the insightful work of David Burbidge and others.»

Rubin, Horton and their colleagues were studying the seismic history of the Sunda Megathrust, which was responsible for the 2004 earthquake that triggered the disastrous tsunami.

The Wuhan lab cost 300 million yuan (US$ 44 million), and to allay safety concerns it was built far above the flood plain and with the capacity to withstand a magnitude - 7 earthquake, although the area has no history of strong earthquakes.

He looks for chains of minor earthquakes, then examines the seismological history of the area where they took place.

«Understanding how the continent works, being able to find the information, being able to figure out how mineral and oil deposits are formed, being able to understand risk - aspects of earthquakes... generally requires a pretty committed staff who've got a good history of what's going on.»

The massive earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011 killed more than 20,000 people, making it one of the most deadly natural disasters in the country's history.

The 11 March 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake was the largest and most destructive in the history of Japan.

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

«Although the simulated earthquake - induced tsunamis are not small, there has been a recorded history of significantly larger events, in terms of earthquake magnitude and mainshock areas, taking place in the region,» says Samaras.

They also warned that Chile's history of destructive earthquakes posed a threat to the telescope.

As Japan suffered the worst earthquake in the country's recorded history, tsunami waves fanned out across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jetliner

The researchers built a high - resolution model that incorporated the known geologic features of the Japan Trench and used CEES simulations to identify possible earthquake rupture histories compatible with the available data.

In this excerpt journalist Jonathan Katz tells the story of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the chaotic events of the nation's formation, history and largely failed reconstruction efforts

Toward that end, Harvey M. Kelsey of Humboldt State University and colleagues present a study of earthquake history in the area.

Researchers hope to use similar imaging techniques on other subduction zones, such as the Cascadia margin along the northern U.S. west coast, where there is a long history of large megathrust earthquakes and related tsunamis.

As the first analyses of what may well become the best studied earthquake in history start to filter through, there is already talk of rewriting the rule book on how «megathrust» quakes happen.

The great Sumatra - Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, for instance, unzipped a 1,300 kilometer long segment of the subduction zone and unleashed one of history's most destructive, deadly tsunamis.

They just live in a very challenging place, a country who can celebrate one of the only successful revolts in our planet's history, but due to lack of support from developed nations, an inefficient and under - staffed government, and the unforeseen tragedies like the 2010 Earthquake and the introduction of cholera, killing thousands upon thousands of citizens, Haiti simply needs a damn break, some light, some positivity.

History has shown that in times of crisis, be it of September 11th proportions, a devastating earthquake, or even the stock market, people tend to turn to dating sites in times of need.

A long history of destructive earthquakes in Italy.

In this detailed history of virtual reality we look at Welcome to Virtual Earthquake.

The cast of who's who collects at James Franco's house for a rager party when the worst earthquake in California's history hits Los Angeles.

When a series of earthquakes hits the Hoover Dam and Los Angeles, Ray finds himself on a race to save his daughter in San Francisco before it gets hit by the largest recorded quake in history.

For example, this data set on earthquakes might include the following categories: earthquake damage, causes of earthquakes, and famous earthquakes in history.

For example, students might (individually or as cooperative teams) create timelines showing the history of the space station, important inventions in history, major earthquakes, or the evolution of animal life on Earth.

But older readers, especially those who have seen the devastating footage of Haiti's recent earthquake, will want to read about the grim, contemporary drama and the inspiring history.

I hold expertise in all the topics, disciplines and sub-fields that fall under Structural Engineering, and some of them are History of Structural Engineering, Structural failure, Building structures, Earthquake engineering structures, Civil engineering structures, Mechanical structures, Aerospace structures, Nanoscale structures, Structural Engineering for Medical Science, Structural elements, Columns, Beams, Trusses, Plates, Shells, Arches, Catenaries, Structural engineering theory and many others.

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