Sentences with phrase «huge earthquakes in»

Families in Nepal now have brand new homes after huge earthquakes in 2015 devastated more than 5 million... More

Families in Nepal now have brand new homes after huge earthquakes in 2015 devastated more than 5 million people.

This tidal signal may help to identify areas that are likely to experience a huge earthquake in coming years, says Maya Tolstoy at Columbia University in New York City.

Not exact matches

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Also, F Graham was in China a few years ago when they had the huge earthquake, they really took advantage of the media, one guy kept repeating «Franklin was right there!»

Huge potholes resembling Serbian mortar craters caused drivers to weave about as if under the influence of an exotic tropical drug, and the maximum speed through the former banana port was about five miles an hour, slower even than in Nancy and Jeff's earthquake - ravaged Cahuita!

plus living in CA people have me freaked out that any day now a huge earthquake can happen since we're due for a big one and the thought of her in another room if that happened scares the hell out of me.

While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one - two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami — a disaster unlikely to occur in many locations — it revealed technical and institutional weaknesses that must be fixed around the world.

Tell us about the infrastructure basically in China and, you know, the earthquake is an extreme example, but how is the country dealing with modernizing with that unbelievably huge population.

Rather, most of the small earthquakes have been linked to injection wells, which dispose of huge quantities of water used to flush out oil and gas in extraction operations.

The government says that a huge earthquake risk lurks in the heart of the country, where a series of large shocks hit 200 years ago.

The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake and tsunami were remarkable in many regards, including the rupturing of shallow trench sediments with huge associated slip (see the Perspective by Wang and Kinoshita).

«We noticed a huge spike in Zika cases where the earthquake occurred.

And the fault should fail segment by segment in large but not huge earthquakes.

It seems that a huge rise in atmospheric temperatures would do the trick, causing continents to grind to a halt, mountains to stop growing and earthquakes to cease.

«In the Coast Range and other hilly areas of Oregon and Washington, we should expect a huge number of landslides associated with the earthquake we face,» Mason said.

Last December's earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam took a huge death toll — roughly 40,000 people — largely because of the collapse of thousands of mud - brick buildings.

Megathrusts, the huge continuous faults found in subduction zones, are responsible for Earth's largest earthquakes.

Where else in the world are huge populations still at risk because they are living in cities where the primary building construction is unreinforced concrete and there is a likelihood of a major earthquake like this?

One month after a powerful earthquake hit Papua New Guinea, the United Nations warns that «children's lives are in danger» as access to the affected remote and isolated villages across vast and rugged terrain remains a huge challenge.

For example, if you're having a huge fight with your partner and he / she threatens to leave you, your body will react on the same way it would if you were in the middle of an earthquake — the heart starts racing, the blood vessels dilate and increase the amount of blood pumped to large muscles, the muscles tense up and your endocrine system increases the production of cortisol and epinephrine, which then influence the liver to produce more glucose and provide energy for an efficient «fight or flight» reaction to the dangerous situation.

San Andreas Rated PG - 13 for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Dwayne Johnson stars in this new disaster pic that asks «what would a huge earthquake along the San Andreas fault would actually look like?»

This film is a classic disaster movie with a huge cast of characters that are crushed, drowned or otherwise killed in a massive earthquake that shakes up the entire western coastline.

Remember that San Francisco Renters Insurance played a huge role in recovering form an earthquake that not only devastated the city, but also set much of it on fire.

Overall Saskatchewan does not represent a huge risk from home insurance perspective since there are no earthquakes (unlike in some regions of British Columbia) or massive registered floodings (unlike in some regions of Alberta or Ontario).

It is more of a hill that was wrecked by an earthquake in the 80's leaving a huge hole in the center.

After a huge tremor leaves the city abandoned, the «Stormers move in to race, but the earthquakes are far from over.

In the development team's defense, they took a huge hit from the 2011 earthquake.

Buchanan brought in blockbuster shows — among them «Picasso,» «The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier,» and this year's «Girl with a Pearl Earring» — that attracted huge crowds to the new de Young, which opened in 2005, five years after the older, earthquake - damaged building closed.

Yet even while spending for school repairs is included in the huge burst of federal spending that is getting under way to revive the economy, there seems to be scant focus on shovel - ready projects to keep vital but vulnerable buildings from falling down in predicted earthquakes.

Below is a memo freshly filed by Salman Masood, a stringer for The Times who kindly caught the final day of the three - day International Conference on School Safety held in Islamabad, Pakistan, a four - hour drive from the region shattered in October, 2005 by huge earthquake.

I think Elizabth Tjader and a few others above raise some good points, mainly that in a huge earthquake like this 7.9 magnitude tremblor in a mountainous region, even with the best solid construction in the world, some buildings are going to crack or tip over or collapse.

A perhaps cold - blooded but pragmatic view is that even the catastrophic losses in earthquakes are not that huge in comparison to other perils of life on the planet.

The primary hazard in coastal Tuvalu is from a tsunami, a huge earthquake - driven wave arriving with essentially no warning.

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.»

the cause of the accident is the fact that the geopgysicist community (source SciAm in french version) in the 70s was feelin that this could not happens where it happend, because the rift / break (correct me, I'm alien) was supposed to glide nicely with small earthquake, and quakeless glide (assumed because ther was difference between earthequake constraints relaxed, and total constraint created by usual move)... after that, people discover that ther have been big tsunamis, big earthquake, and that the theory may be false... but the power plant was built on a pretend safe place, and not beeing sure of the new theory, not much was done to anticipate a huge tsunami.

Japanese government used the AGW theory to promote nuclear power in this small country where huge earthquakes and tsunamis have occurred repeatedly.

via: Tibetan Plateau China, Hydropower Dam May Have Triggered Massive China Earthquake China Mulls Building Hydroelectric Dams in Southern Tibet China Builds Dam on Indus, Doesn't Tell Pakistan Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Yu Xiaogang on Hydropower and Community in China China Earthquake Threatens Nearby Dams, Environment Hydropower on China's Nu River, Alternatives to Huge Dams (Video)

In fact, when you consider the Frontier State's extreme weather, its huge geographical size and spread out population, and Alaska's unforgiving and active geology (Alaska experiences an average of 1,000 earthquakes per month.)

Remember that San Francisco Renters Insurance played a huge role in recovering form an earthquake that not only devastated the city, but also set much of it on fire.

Imagine a situation where a massive earthquake or natural calamity in a region puts a huge burden on the insurance company.

Overall Saskatchewan does not represent a huge risk from home insurance perspective since there are no earthquakes (unlike in some regions of British Columbia) or massive registered floodings (unlike in some regions of Alberta or Ontario).

The big thing around here (in Southern CA) is the big shake out, a huge earthquake drill.