Sentences with phrase «large quakes in»

Now we have tantalising evidence that it may be possible to build a system to warn of some large quakes in the minutes before they strike.

The changes raised the estimated likelihood of a magnitude - 8 or larger quake in California over the next 30 years from 4.7 % to 7 %.

«I think it's a wake - up call,» says Ned Field, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, who leads California's seismic hazard modeling team and recently upgraded the likelihood of a large quake in the state to account for the phenomenon.

Paul Giamatti lends the film a little dignity as a seismologist, though his main advice is to get under a desk when the largest quake in recorded history strikes.

Not exact matches

Dale Grant, a USGS geophysicist, told The Associated Press the two larger quakes were likely felt in up to eight surrounding states.

Boudhanath Stupa, the largest stupa in Nepal and the holiest Tibetan Buddhist temple outside Tibet damaged in quake.

Strategically located in Manhattan's historic Financial District near Battery Park, Quake teams have access to one of the world's largest financial centers and one of America's biggest startup ecosystems, all in one great city.

He pointed to induced quakes of magnitude 4 or larger in the past year in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, but said much of this happened too late for the research council to include in its study.»

The remaining stress could be released gradually in minor quakes, in a single large event, or a mixture of the two.

(Once the quake had occurred, statistical forecasting based on the size of the main shock did anticipate the possibility of its largest aftershock: a magnitude - 6.3 quake in February that heavily damaged older structures in Christchurch.)

«Even though a very large quake has already happened this year, the hazard has not vanished,» says Gavin Hayes of the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.

Because scientists have evidence in the prehistoric record of quakes that large in the Texas - Oklahoma region, the USGS's new maps include a low - probability chance for that possibility.

Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.

So far they have mapped the natural geologic stresses throughout Oklahoma and Texas — the states with the largest populations at risk from human - induced quakes — and have discovered that only a fraction of faults hold the potential to slip in the presence of moderate pressure increases.

This long period of «afterslip» compares to just a year of afterslip for a similar magnitude quake in Napa, California in 2014, demonstrating large variation in fault behavior after earthquakes.

The findings also confirm that the entire area of the Himalayas is capable of producing large earthquakes like the magnitude - 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

They conclude that there have been at least three major quakes along the faults in the past 1400 years, the most recent being a large tremor along the Pedro Miguel fault in 1621.

New Madrid - area faults produced earthquakes as large as 7 or 8 - magnitude in the early 1800s and have produced smaller quakes since then.

One of the largest quakes to strike Japan occurred in 1944, leading to the loss of more than 1,200 lives on the main and most populated island of Honshu.

The magnitude 5.8 Pawnee quake, felt widely across Oklahoma, is the largest earthquake recorded in the state since the 1950s.

The trouble is that large earthquakes generate tectonic waves that ripple around the world's surface and routinely trigger smaller quakes on distant faults, so increased activity in China is hardly a surprise.

In recent years, Oklahoma has had more magnitude 3.0 quakes than California, says Michael Blanpied of USGS, including its two largest ever recorded: a 5.7 magnitude in 2011 and a 5.8 magnitude in 201In recent years, Oklahoma has had more magnitude 3.0 quakes than California, says Michael Blanpied of USGS, including its two largest ever recorded: a 5.7 magnitude in 2011 and a 5.8 magnitude in 201in 2011 and a 5.8 magnitude in 201in 2016.

Unfortunately for the people of Japan, what is beyond doubt is that large quakes can cluster locally: aftershocks are common in the wake of a large quake, and occasionally they can be as large as the primary shock.

Two months later, in January 2007, the islands felt the force of a second large quake, this time an 8.1 - magnitude event.

They tend to accompany large quakes — with magnitudes above 6 — centred at fairly shallow points in the Earth's crust.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

The storm is being described as the largest humanitarian disaster in Haiti since the 2010 quake, killing at least 11 and leaving 10,000 in shelters

According to their model, Bufe says, the probability of another quake of magnitude 9 or larger striking in the next 6 years is about 63 per cent.

But major earthquakes such as the Mw 7.9 2008 Chengdu quake in China and New Zealand's 2011 Mw 6.3 quake have shown that large earthquakes do occur and can cause significant infrastructure damage and loss of life.

Their interest is more than purely academic, because triggered tremors - if that is what they are - may warn that a really large quake is on the way in the same place.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

The mapped surface rupture was unusually large for a moderate quake, extending nearly eight miles from Cuttings Wharf in the south to just west of Alston Park in the north.

Although such accumulated strain may be released in a series of smaller, less hazardous rumbles, Floyd says that given the historical pattern of major quakes along the North Anatolian Fault, it would be reasonable to expect a large earthquake off the coast of Istanbul within the next few decades.

In a recent paper in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, geologist Colin Amos of Western Washington University and colleagues found that an 1872 quake hundreds of miles from the SAF was among the largest in California history, reaching 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scalIn a recent paper in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, geologist Colin Amos of Western Washington University and colleagues found that an 1872 quake hundreds of miles from the SAF was among the largest in California history, reaching 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scalin Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, geologist Colin Amos of Western Washington University and colleagues found that an 1872 quake hundreds of miles from the SAF was among the largest in California history, reaching 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scalin California history, reaching 7.7 to 7.9 on the Richter scale.

In particular, they found that big, destructive quakes may have a better chance of occurring offshore of Washington and northern Oregon than farther south along the subduction zone — although any large quake would impact the surrounding area.

And with the last large earthquake occurring in 1700, scientists are expecting a large quake to occur in the future, although it's impossible to pinpoint the timing exactly.

In November 2016, the second largest quake ever recorded in New Zealand — the 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura quake — hit the country's South IslanIn November 2016, the second largest quake ever recorded in New Zealand — the 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura quake — hit the country's South Islanin New Zealand — the 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura quake — hit the country's South Island.

Seismologist Austin Holland of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, who was not involved in the study, says there could be a large number of factors playing into the quakes.

That April 1 quake, which struck offshore near the village of Pisagua, was the largest in Chile since a magnitude - 8.8 quake hit farther south in 2010.

In May 2012, a 4.8 magnitude quake hit Timpson — the largest ever monitored in the regioIn May 2012, a 4.8 magnitude quake hit Timpson — the largest ever monitored in the regioin the region.

That process of subduction triggers the largest earthquakes in the world, such as the magnitude - 9.5 Chilean quake in 1960 and the magnitude - 9.1 Sumatran quake in 2004.

In fact, five fault segments failed simultaneously, producing a quake much larger than the model had predicted.

The Quake - Catcher Network (QCN) is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low - cost strong - motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to Internet - connected computers.

Indeed, one of the four largest quakes of that winter — one that occurred at about dawn on 16 December 1811 — is considered to be an aftershock of the first quake in the series, which occurred about 5 hours earlier.

For example, no one expected that the section of fault that ruptured to cause Japan's horrific 9.1 - magnitude Tohoku quake in March 2011 could result in a quake that large.

This longer - period shaking was responsible for the collapse of taller structures in Kathmandu, such as the Dharahara Tower, a 60 - meter - high tower that survived larger earthquakes in 1833 and 1934 but collapsed completely during the Gorkha quake.

Comparing the situation to a large quake that struck L'Aquila in 1703, Boschi said, «It is unlikely that an earthquake like the one in 1703 could occur in the short term, but the possibility can not be totally excluded.»

The largest number of phones to record a quake was 103, after the 5.2 magnitude quake that occurred on the San Jacinto fault near Borrego Springs in San Diego County on June 10.

«If it's been a long time since a large earthquake, then, even after another quake happens, the fault's «memory» sometimes isn't wiped out, so there's still a good chance of having another,» said Seth Stein, the study's senior author and the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The largest quake detected occurred on April 16 in Ecuador: a 7.8 magnitude quake that triggered two phones, 170 and 200 kilometers from the epicenter.