Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake about»

The Lede is following breaking news of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake about 80 miles off the shore of Japan.

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«Two fault lines intersect about a mile north of Indian Point and a Columbia University study tells us a 7.0 magnitude earthquake is quite possible,» Gally said.

As they stood in storage in her basement lab, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake jolted the town of Prague, about 60 miles east of Oklahoma City.

This tectonic time bomb is alarmingly similar to Tohoku, capable of generating a megathrust earthquake at or above magnitude 9, and about as close to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver as the Tohoku fault is to Japan's coast.

Wirth simulated a magnitude - 9.0 earthquake, about the middle of the range of estimates for the magnitude of the 1700 earthquake.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or higher would stop the land from rising and also likely would bring about additional sea - level growth of 1 to 2 meters (3.3 to 6.6 feet) in the area, he said.

The latest research into the little known, fault - riddled, undersea landscape off of Southern California and northern Baja California has revealed more worrisome details about a tectonic train wreck in the Earth's crust with the potential for magnitude 7.9 to 8.0 earthquakes.

After being tossed about and damaged by the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, Japan's drilling ship the Chikyu has been given an especially fitting assignment: to drill into the fault zone and take temperature measurements near the epicentre of the magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that caused the tsunami.

The Met Office said on Sunday a magnitude 5.3 earthquake at 5 kilometres (3 miles) depth had struck after midnight while another, with a magnitude of about 5, had occurred some five hours later.

The magnitude 8 earthquake that occurred this past February along the New Guinea Trench, about 45 miles north of Biak Island in the western Pacific, came as a complete surprise to Biak inhabitants and geologists alike.

The magnitude 6.3 earthquake ended up leveling about 20,000 buildings in and around L'Aquila.

More recently, an earthquake of magnitude of about 7.0 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with observed waves locally exceeding 10 metres in height.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

But given what we know about how big earthquakes are, while it's still possible to have a huge 9.0 magnitude earthquake, it's more likely that it'll be a smaller earthquake, still big, significant over 6.7 magnitude, almost certain to happen by 2038; but one thing [it won't do] is to reshape California's coast; it's not likely to [reshape] California, because it won't be as bad, I think, as people have anticipated.

Based on previous analyses, USGS scientists have estimated the chance of having an earthquake similar to one of the 1811 to 1812 temblors in the next 50 years is about 7 % to 10 %, and the chance of having a magnitude - 6 or larger earthquake in the next 50 years is 25 % to 40 %.

Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes are small, but MyShake users in the state, which number only about 200, easily detected the Sept. 3 magnitude 5.8 quake, the strongest ever to hit the state.

Their work suggest that there are roughly three times more earthquake sequences of magnitude 2 or larger induced by hydraulic fracturing compared to wastewater disposal in the area — even though there are about 10 times more hydraulic fracturing wells than wastewater disposal wells.

At the SSA Annual Meeting, experts will speak about the growing recognition that hydraulic fracturing or fracking can produce earthquakes magnitude 3 and larger, acknowledging that this type of seismic activity is difficult to predict and may be difficult to stop once it begins.

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault,... Continue Reading»

For each increase in magnitude, an earthquake produces 10 times more ground motion and releases about 32 times more energy.

Download Cascadia Deep Earthquakes Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A magnitude 9.0 earthquake scenario Read our new publication about the effects of a major subduction earthquake on communities along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from the Brooks Peninsula on Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino in northern California.

The seismic moment released from the six earthquakes of about magnitude 6 that have occurred on the Parkfield fault segment since 1857 would only account for about 12 percent of the available moment deficit, Michel said.

The Chilean earthquakes, Crowell said, represent about half of magnitude 8 events in the recorded catalog of earthquakes that are used to test G - FAST and other geodetic algorithms for inclusion in ShakeAlert.

29 November 2017 — Although magnitude 6 earthquakes occur about every 25 years along the Parkfield Segment of the San Andreas Fault, geophysical data suggest that the seismic slip induced by those magnitude 6 earthquakes alone does not match the long - term slip rates on this part of the San Andreas fault, researchers report November 28 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

Michel and colleagues report that the probability of an earthquake of magnitude 6 or more is equal to about 43 percent over the span of 30 years, and 96 percent over the span of 200 years.

Netherlands About Youtuber Daily Earthquake Forecasts, specifically over 6 magnitude based on planetary geometry in the Solar System.

Aftershock (R for rape, profanity, nudity, drug use and graphic violence) Harrowing horror flick, set in Chile, about a half - dozen tourists» (Eli Roth, Ariel Levy, Nicolas Martinez, Lorenza Izzo, Natasha Yarovenko and Andrea Osvart) ordeal trying to survive the chaos and collapse of civilization in the aftermath of an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported south of Santa Cruz Island on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

November 2016 a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the south island about 120 km North of Christchurch.

By now, you've probably read about the bureaucratic tangles that have been delaying the arrival and distribution of tents, food and other international relief supplies following the April 25 7.8 - magnitude earthquake that has shattered or damaged several hundred thousand homes and other structures in Nepal.

The average time between magnitude 8 and larger Cascadia earthquakes is about 240 years (see page 8, Cascadia earthquake timeline, based on Chris Goldfinger's data, Oregon State University).

As soon as I heard about the 5.6 - magnitude earthquake amid a cluster of recent lesser tremors in Oklahoma, I figured the potential relationship of some earthquakes to drilling would emerge.

To put that in perspective, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 releases about as much energy as did the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

Netherlands About Youtuber Daily Earthquake Forecasts, specifically over 6 magnitude based on planetary geometry in the Solar System.

Netherlands About Youtuber Daily Earthquake Forecasts, specifically over 6 magnitude based on planetary geometry in the Solar System.