Sentences with phrase «hit by an earthquake»

They were hit by an earthquake roughly 25 times more powerful than experts thought possible in that part of the country.

There are at least 100 volcanoes on the islands, 35 of them still active, and the islands are often hit by earthquakes and tidal waves.

The nuclear power plant was hit by an earthquake in 2011.

In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by an earthquake and then a tsunami, causing a meltdown and radiation leaks.

Allianz Global Assistance expresses its deepest sympathy and solidarity with the pain of the Nepalese people, who have been so violently hit by the earthquake which devastated the country, the company said.

It is commonly known that California residents tend to experience more earthquakes than people in any other area of the country, however the west coast is not exclusively the only area in the United States that can expect to get hit by earthquakes.

Regardless of whether your loft has been affected by fire, your apartment has been hit by an earthquake or your townhouse has been broken into by thieves, Hesperia renters insurance will take care of the costs incurred during your misfortune.

Not exact matches

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

Like the others, North Carolina is not a victim of frequent earthquakes and its coastline is not typically as hard hit by hurricanes as states south of it.

Japan forced to restrict power usage after the loss of the Fukushima Dai - ichi plant hit by the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Researchers in Japan are now saying there's a high probability that Tokyo could be hit by a massive earthquake in the next several years.

Pope Francis is sending # 150,000 to families in areas of Mexico worst hit by this week's earthquake which has claimed at least 273 lives.

But his charge changed dramatically on August 23, when Virginia was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that damaged the cathedral, along with landmarks like the Washington Monument.

«Now, more than ever, we have an important opportunity to unite and support each other, together we can improve lives and help those that need it around the world by dining out at one of these amazing restaurants,» commented Chef José Andrés, who founded World Central Kitchen in 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, and continues to lead relief efforts alongside the World Central Kitchen chef team in hard - hit areas including most recently in Houston and Puerto Rico.

JAPAN and Ecuador were both hit by powerful earthquakes in the last week.

Commission members «got snookered into answering a kind of simple yes - or - no question: «Will we be hit by a large earthquake?»»

When an earthquake hits a town, the destruction is caused by seismic waves moving through the Earth.

The DONET system (of which there are now two) is a series of linked pressure sensors installed on the ocean floor in the Nankai Trough, an area that has been hit by repeated dangerous earthquakes, JAMSTEC's Nakamura said.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters)- A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run on insurance policies for tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes.

The region investigated in this study is of great interest because in the past it has repeatedly been hit by devastating earthquakes and tsunamis.

Archaeologists concluded that the Minoans had not only survived but thrived after the eruption, expanding their culture until they were hit by some other, unknown disaster — perhaps some combination of fire, earthquake, or foreign invader.

Academic scientists face major obstacles as they try to collate baseline data on radiation doses in the face of the enormous disruption caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country last month.

And better building codes would not have saved earthquake - hit villagers buried by landslides in Pakistan's 2005 quake.

As I was writing this blog post, Long Beach was just hit by a 2.7 magnitude earthquake.

Recently it was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey that the probability of a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake hitting California in the next 30 years has increased dramatically.

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.

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As if these existential conundrums weren't enough to rock the foundations of Julia and Jacob's marriage, a colossal earthquake of a more literal variety (magnitude 7.6) hits the motherland and Israel is besieged — by her unfriendly neighbors and by circumstances even the ablest governments might find difficult to control.

If an earthquake destroys the factory of one of the companies held by a mutual fund, your financial hit will likely be minimal.

This insurance coverage pays you if your car is stolen, or damaged caused by something other than a collision by anything other than car accidents such as storms, floods, falling objects, explosions, earthquakes, vandalism or contact with an animal, such as hitting a deer.

But at the time of Brexit, the markets thought the World was going to end and the planet earth was going to get hit by cyclone followed by earthquake, tsunami and drought.

In Ancient Greece, there are records that show how dogs run away from the city of Helice before it was hit by a tragic earthquake.

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.

The social affairs agency and disaster mitigation agency (BPBD) in Poso, Central Sulawesi, have begun distributing aid to people impacted by an earthquake that hit Napu, North Lore district, on Monday.

The city of Juchitan, on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, was hit particularly hard by the 8.2 - magnitude earthquake that shook the region on Sept. 7, 2017.

Its narrow streets with colorful houses speak of days long gone, and it is another place that wasn't hit too hard by the earthquake.

Two weeks later we were hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and that stopped the momentum.

Thankfully, Nintendo is unaffected by the massive earthquake that hit Japan... but others weren't as lucky as them.

The Japanese photographer's first UK show commemorates six years since Japan's northeastern coast was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Two untitled works — the irregularly shaped, indigo - splashed ceramic vertebrae towering nearly ten feet along a steel spine, and the ossified chunks of muted - rose and chocolate - brown porcelain dangling from twisted sections of a gate or fence — look as if they were hit by a hurricane, earthquake, and volcano all at once.

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

China builds fancy skyscrapers (some so incompetently designed that they burn down when accidentally hit by fireworks) in its showplace cities, and in rural areas schools that fall down in earthquakes.

2:50 p.m. Defense Department officials reported that a Huey helicopter carrying two Nepalese soldiers and six Marines in an area hard hit by the first earthquake is missing.]

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

Three of the plant's six nuclear reactions went into meltdown after it was hit by a tsunami triggered by an earthquake.

New rules for Texas injection wastewater well operators offer no relief to people impacted by more than 30 earthquakes that hit Azle, Reno and Springtown almost a year ago.

The area of Groningen has been hit by hundreds of earthquakes in recent years as a result of gas extraction resulting in damage to buildings across the region.

The major 7 reactor 8.2 GW Kashiwazaki - Kariwa complex in central Japan, was hit by a Richter scale 6.8 earthquake in July 2007, which fortunately only led to a relatively small (1200 litre, 90 k becquerel) radioactive leak into the sea.

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.»