Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake caused»

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QUITO (Reuters)- Two earthquakes struck Ecuador's coast on Wednesday, causing minor injuries and light damage in the same region where a magnitude 7.8 tremor killed more than 650 people last month.

A 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit the southern state of Puebla — causing the currency to drop to

A 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit the southern state of Puebla — causing the currency to drop to 17.761 pesos per US dollar.

We detected and measured coseismic displacement caused by the 11 March 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake [moment magnitude (MW) 9.0] by using multibeam bathymetric surveys.

The maps are based largely upon the 1946 tsunami, which followed a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands and caused water to rise only two and a half meters (8 feet) up the side of the Makauwahi sinkhole.

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.

NEW ZEALAND / / / EARTHQUAKE With an epicenter 6 miles from downtown, the Christchurch quake in February took 181 lives and caused $ 12 billion in damages despite having a magnitude of just 6.3.

And geologists now say that such induced earthquakes could potentially be large, up to magnitude 7, which is big enough to cause buildings to collapse and widespread damage.

«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.

An underlying earthquake of sufficient magnitude could dislodge the portion of the plate between these cracks, causing it to ascend vertically in the seawater.

Also, it shows graphically the distribution of earthquakes by their magnitude and frequency that are caused by movement in the orogeny — a belt of the earth's crust involved in the formation of mountains.

SHAKE DAMAGE The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 killed 63 people and caused thousands of injuries in Northern California.

The body was revealed using 3 - D seismic images of Earth's interior based on the monitoring of vibrations on the Pacific seafloor caused by aftershocks from the magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake.

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.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, two of them seriously, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa.

That magnitude 7.6 earthquake killed more than 85,000 people, mostly in north Pakistan, and caused massive infrastructure damage.

A powerful magnitude - 7.8 earthquake on a little studied fault caused major infrastructure damage in New Zealand on 14 November.

Other estimates, based on the broader relationship between landslides and earthquake magnitude, suggest the Nepal earthquake might have caused between 25,000 and 60,000 landslides.

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.

Two years ago at the 2008 Caribbean Geological Conference, the Austin - based group asserted that there was enough stress built up to cause a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, Nature News reported (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group).

They found that a large earthquake along the northern section of the San Jacinto fault could cascade down to the Sierra Madre - Cucamonga system, with the potential to cause a 7.5 magnitude earthquake on the edge of the Los Angeles metropolitan region.

«We tested each mechanism,» Tingay says, «and we show that the order of magnitude of the earthquake was too small to cause it.

Although the main earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 broke the central section of the seismic gap of a length of some 100 kilometres, two large segments further north and south remain intact, and these segments are able to cause strong earthquakes with a high risk of ground shaking and tsunamis.Oncken: «This means that the risk of one or even several earthquakes with a magnitude clearly above 8 still exists.»

Last December, the world got a break: A 7.1 magnitude undersea earthquake damaged cables and caused a massive but temporary drop in spam.

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators found that when stress exerted on Earth's crust was high, the levels of a helium isotope, helium - 4, released in the groundwater was also high at sites near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 quake in southwestern Japan, which caused 50 fatalities and serious damage.

Also, it shows graphically the distribution of earthquakes by their magnitude and frequency that are caused by movement in the orogeny - a belt of the earth's crust involved in the formation of mountains.

In April, 1967 pesticide waste injected by a chemical plant at Denver's Rocky Mountain Arsenal destabilized a seismic fault, causing a magnitude 5.0 earthquake — strong enough to shatter windows and close schools — and jolting scientists with newfound risks of injection, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

«The devastation caused by an earthquake of magnitude 6.4, can only be attributed to inapropriate building design or the reaction of the ground to the seismic waves.

The 2004 tsunami, which caused widespread destruction, was triggered by a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 just off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The 2004 tsunami, which caused widespread destruction, was triggered by a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 just off the coast of the...

Earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 and greater can cause serious damage to homes and businesses.

Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake earthquake can cause.

The National Tourism Administration of the People's Republic of China (CNTA), together with the Provincial Government of Sichuan, has officially opened the 2011 Sichuan International Tourism Festival, 2011 with a formal ceremony held at the town of Shuimo in Wenchuan County, Sichuan ProvinceRunning until May 15th, 2011 this international tourism festival commemorates the devastation caused by the 8.0 - magnitude earthquake that struck the province of Sichuan at 2:28 pm China local time on May 12th, 2008 with devastating consequences to both life and property.

Nepal suffered a 7.8 - magnitude earthquake in April 2015 that flattened large parts of the capital Kathmandu and caused devastation across the entire nation.

A modeled larger ARkStorm («Atmospheric River 1000 [year] Storm»), or one of seven larger 270 year megafloods, would likely cause California 350 % or more of the damage of a 7.8 magnitude San Andreas fault ShakeOut earthquake scenario!

That «Atmospheric River 1000 Storm» (ARkStorm)-- could cause more than 300 % of the damage from a 7.8 magnitude San Andreas fault ShakeOut earthquake scenario (Perry, S., et al. 2008).

ArkStorm 1000 year study: The United States Geological Service with California's Dept. Water Resources, modeled a 25 day ARkStorm — the «Atmospheric River 1000 ″ [year] Storm», likely to cause ≥ 350 % damage of a 7.8 magnitude San Andreas fault ShakeOut earthquake (Porter et al. 2011).

A magnitude 6 earthquake will cause a stone hut to collapse, killing the inhabitants, but will only mildly damage the average US home, and not kill anyone.

Seismologists at Columbia University and Harvard University have found a new indicator that the Earth is warming: «glacial earthquakes» caused when the rivers of ice lurch unexpectedly and produce temblors as strong as magnitude 5.1 on the moment - magnitude scale, which is similar to the Richter scale.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and over 70 aftershocks have caused unspeakable destruction throughout the country, claiming over 6,000 lives.

Earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 and greater can cause serious damage to homes and businesses.

Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake Earthquake insurance is extra liability specifically designed to cover the devastating damage that a high magnitude earthquake earthquake can cause.

[Direct Link to Donations] 48 people have died in Japan and thousands more were injured after magnitude 6.2 and 7.0 earthquakes hit southwest Japan on April 14 and 16, causing severe damage in the Kumamoto and Ōita prefectures.