Sentences with phrase «how big earthquakes»
But given what we know about how big earthquakes are, while it's still possible to have a huge 9.0 magnitude earthquake, it's more likely that it'll be a smaller earthquake, still big, significant over 6.7 magnitude, almost certain to happen by 2038; but one thing [it won't do] is to reshape California's coast; it's not likely to [reshape] California, because it won't be as bad, I think, as people have anticipated.
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Engineers who set building codes and officers at insurance companies need to know where the next induced earthquakes will strike and how big they will be.
The work — the fruit of decades of intensive monitoring around Japan — gives seismologists a much - anticipated peek into a fundamental mystery: «How does a big earthquake happen?»
Fifty simulations of the «Really Big One» show how a 9.0 Cascadia earthquake could play out.»
So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.
When you have a big earthquake, sound waves go through the inside of the Earth, and you can detect those at the surface and notice how long it took for them to get there.
The earthquake timeline above, from Chris Goldfinger and others at Oregon State University, illustrates just how certain it is that a big one is coming.
Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city.
Biomass and sewage currently is not being manufactured into bio oil so it looks like the answer is to look out the window or on the news to see just how big the weather, earthquakes and volcanos are being energized to be.
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It is even hard to predict the next earthquake and how big it will be.