Sentences with phrase «hours after the quake»

In fact, Michael Blanpied, an associate coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, explained in a podcast recorded hours after the quake, the two plates are «shearing the island, crushing it, grinding it.»

More than 20,000 people died, most as a result of the tsunami that hit the coastline a half - hour after the quake.

It takes 3 hours for surface seismic waves to circle the earth: coming from Japan, the high intensity waves hit USArray from the west an hour after the quake.

Coming from the opposite direction, a second set of waves from the east hit the array 2 hours after the quake.

Not exact matches

The residents of India and Sri Lanka had almost two hours to move to higher ground after seismographs first registered the quake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, but because those regions lacked a warning system, tens of thousands perished.

A network of seismometers around the volcano indicated that the ground started shaking about an hour after the Sumatran quake — due to surface waves traveling along Earth's crust.

The Return of Quake - Yeah, you read that right — after 20 years, the classic battle arena multiplayer shooter is ready for a new generation promising hours upon hours of trash talk.

The «smart» firms, which were up and running again in less than 24 hours, had taken heed after the first quake and backed up their client management systems and databases to ensure that if their office became uninhabitable and they could not get access to physical files etc, they could still run their operations.

Guerrero residents are reporting they felt aftershocks for hours after the initial quake, and news reports now indicate that many residents slept out of doors for fear of their houses collapsing.