Sentences with phrase «large quakes occurred»

* Update, 3 April, 11:05 a.m.: On the evening of 2 April, after this story was posted, two more large quakes occurred within the Iquique seismic gap.

Not exact matches

(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.)

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.

While demonstrating a domino effect is a challenge, Lay does have a geological mechanism that can link some large quakes that occur several months apart.

Many minor tremors occur, but quakes as large as magnitude 4.5 have been recorded.

Although there is evidence that the ground motions induced by major temblors trigger small quakes thousands of kilometres away, there's no sign that such triggering occurs for large quakes, he adds.

Temblors that size are rare indeed: only 7 quakes as large or larger than 8.8 — the magnitude of last February's Chilean event — have occurred since 1900.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.