Sentences with phrase «immediately after the earthquake»

Immediately after the earthquake, the agency sent another vessel, Kairei, to deploy ocean bottom seismometers in the area of the earthquake to monitor aftershocks and get a better understanding of the fault zone.

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At the forefront of organizing aid, Soka Gakkai's Tokyo headquarters immediately became the group's emergency communication center after the March 11 earthquake.

Grondahl has been a staff writer at the Albany Times Union since 1984, where his assignments have taken him from the Arctic to Antarctica; from Northern Ireland to Africa; from New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina and Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake in 2010; and across New York State, from Ground Zero on 9 / 11 to the Adirondack wilderness.

After the Wenchuan quake, researchers immediately began calculating stress changes on the major faults surrounding the rupture zone, in part to identify where dangerous aftershocks might occur and to test how well these stress change calculations might work to predict new earthquakes.

They can be deployed almost immediately to find, treat, and help extract people trapped in rubble after an earthquake or explosion.

Banks did not waive their fees immediately after the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, but quickly did so after some public scolding.