Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake as»

Chino Hills was the victim of a 5.7 magnitude earthquake as recently as 2008, so it's important to make sure your policy protects you against earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Portions of the pipeline will also cross an active seismic zone that had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake as recently as 2002.

Not exact matches

Voice communication technology may be shot for a while after a major event such as a magnitude 9.0 earthquake followed by tsunami.

In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Bronx viewers will be able to check in on the progress being made in Puerto Rico and Mexico as relief pours in to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and into Mexico after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake is the largest earthquake detected by the alert system, known as SASMEX, since it began operations in 1993.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

No one really understood how the loose landfill would react to major earthquakes until 1985, when a magnitude - 8 quake struck the coast along the same plate boundary as Tuesday's quake.

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.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

«There had been just a handful of detailed simulations of a magnitude - 9 Cascadia earthquake, and it was hard to know if they were showing the full range,» said Erin Wirth, who led the project as a UW postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space sciences.

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.

A magnitude - 9.0 earthquake would likely give way along the whole north - south extent of the subduction zone, but it's not well known how far east the shake - producing area would extend, approaching the area beneath major cities such as Seattle and Portland.

According to Beth Buczynski of the CrispGreen Web site, researchers have calculated that the January 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed upwards of 220,000 people in Haiti released as much energy as 31 atomic bombs like the one the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

The researchers suggest that the Colorado earthquake may have been as large as magnitude 6.

«Since 2009 rates in some areas, such as Oklahoma, have increased by more than an order of magnitude,» the USGS said in September, referring to the rates of induced, or human - caused, earthquakes.

The magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake started innocuously as a moderate shock on a previously unknown thrust fault, so named because one side of the deep fault thrusts over the other.

The new study shows that the frequency and magnitude of large earthquakes in the densely populated regions close to mountain chains — such as the Alps, Apennines, Himalaya and Zagros — depend on the collision rate of the smaller tectonic plates.

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

Alerts issued by earthquake early warning systems, called EEWs, are based on several parameters: the depth and location of the quake's origin, its estimated magnitude and the ground properties, such as the types of soil and rock that seismic waves would travel through.

Seismic waves unleashed during Wednesday's magnitude 8.3 earthquake in Chile could have triggered aftershocks as far as 1000 kilometres away.

The severity of earthquake shaking is fundamentally controlled by three factors: earthquake magnitude, the attenuation of energy as waves move through the crust and the modification of shaking due to the local geological structure.

As Charles Richter, the seismologist who developed the famous magnitude scale for earthquakes, wrote in 1958, «such rotations are negligible.»

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.

At a demonstration project in Japan, even a magnitude 6.8 earthquake didn't shake injected CO2 loose from a deep saline aquifer; the wellheads did not so much as leak.

But studies such as this provide a way to better characterize earthquakes in advance in terms of location, magnitude and rupture progression, and therefore allow a better assessment of damage risk.»

This map shows the California Borderland and its major tectonic features, as well as the locations of earthquakes greater than Magnitude 5.5.

The initial warning relied on preliminary seismic data that registered the earthquake as only magnitude 7.9, but it can take tens of minutes after the initial detection for long - period seismic waves to provide a fuller picture of the earthquake's energy.

It looked as if an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 had just happened.

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 some instances, such as the earthquake that shook Maryland this past July, the maps have helped scientists correct their assessments of an earthquake's magnitude and epicenter.

For the Hayward fault simulations, the authors show that GPS data combined with a technology called SBAS (satellite - based augmentation system) could be used to issue warnings five seconds before strong seismic waves from a magnitude 7 earthquake reached major population centers such as San Francisco and San Jose.

The HiQuake researchers were initially surprised to find that such large magnitude earthquakes were proposed as induced, Wilson said, «but most of the stress released in these cases is of natural tectonic origin.

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.

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But as Resnikoff pointed out, many of the radiation sensors are located on the nuclear plant's site and may well have been damaged during or since the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

ShakeAlert is modeled on successful systems in Mexico, China and Italy as well as one that gave 52 million Japanese citizens precious seconds to prepare for the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake.

Once the P waves register on a bank of 400 seismometers around the state that are maintained by ShakeAlert's partner institutions, the raw data is instantly transmitted to a suite of central software that processes it using three algorithmic calculations: The first, known as ElarmS, collects data from multiple seismometers and calculates the location and magnitude of the earthquake.

The earthquake was later confirmed to be of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale — less intense than the one that occurred on September of the previous year — and the same intensity as the one that followed this past June.

As if to underscore the new findings, central Oklahoma experienced a series of earthquakes last week, including a magnitude 4.2 temblor Wednesday night (August 2) that knocked out power in Edmond, near Oklahoma City.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

A high - magnitude earthquake in Japan, one notion goes, might redistribute stress in Earth's crust, subsequently triggering another temblor in the following months or years — a quake that could even strike as far away as the western shores of the U.S..

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.

Research has shown that the faults in the Ventura basin in Southern California are capable of generating earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater as well as significant local tsunamis.

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.

Few experts had thought that the seismic zone near Sendai, Japan, was capable of producing earthquakes anywhere near as powerful as the magnitude - 9.0 shock on 11 March, the largest on record in Japan.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

The power of hurricanes Irma and Harvey as well as the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico demonstrate the critical need for well - planned readiness, response and recovery efforts.

The probability of an earthquake occurring exponentially decreases as its magnitude value increases.