Sentences with phrase «in a landslide zone»

You «could» be in a landslide zone, flood zone, Earthquake zone, within 50 miles of an airport, their could have been a Uranium mine nearby... the list goes on.

Not exact matches

When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

Scientists have discovered that the last subduction zone earthquake to hit the Pacific Northwest was in January 1700, when — like now — soils probably would have been soggy from winter rains and most vulnerable to landslides.

The new measurements in this research were made with cores that showed the results of massive amounts of sediments released by subsea landslides during a subduction zone earthquake — a catastrophic event beneath the sea as well as on land.

When Ekström and colleague Colin Stark analyzed the seismic data associated with those major landslides, they realized that certain characteristics of the slumps were contained in the ground motions — similar to the way that researchers can use seismic data to estimate the size of a quake and the directions at which the two sides of a fault zone slipped past each other.

It used measurements from 195 core samples containing submarine landslide deposits caused by subduction zone earthquakes, instead of only about a dozen such samples in past research.

The project seeks to address the climate - related problems (such as frequent drought, floods, landslides and coastal storms) posing a serious threat to the government's objective of developing strong rural economies to bridge the urban - rural income disparity, particularly in post conflict zones.

We show the boundaries and whether it's in a high - severity fire zone, an earthquake zone, landslide zone or a [dam - break] flood zone or any natural hazard zone that's mapped by federal, state or local agencies.

But some methods of outlining hazards such as flood and landslide zones can result in inaccurately drawn reports that can ironically prove to be naturally hazardous to the fiscal health of both the buyer and seller.