Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake happened»
The 5.5 magnitude earthquake happened at 0528 GMT (01:28 a.m. EDT) near the volcano, Iceland's Meteorological Office said.
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Damage from an earthquake of this magnitude would be even worse if it were to happen in a more densely populated area.
It looked as if an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 had just happened.
After underlining to Stati the importance of prudence when dealing with earthquakes, and in particular that one should never state that there won't be further tremors, Bertolaso then went on to tell her what the experts were to say: «It is a normal situation, these phenomena [the tremors] happen, it's better that there are 100 magnitude - 4 tremors rather than silence because 100 tremors release energy and there won't ever be the damaging tremor.»
Scientists know that it will happen again, we know the possible magnitude of the earthquakes to come, and we know that those magnitudes are greater than 7.
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.
This is a serious limitation: Like 90 percent of all earthquakes greater than magnitude 8, Japan's temblor happened at sea.
Because an Earthquake is in essence just a microquake that extends a few orders of magnitude larger than usual, and microquakes happen all the time, precise prediction will probably never be possible.
The magnitude of what happened in Japan, the earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear events are unfathomable.
«The mountain has not erupted until now, the earthquake happens less frequently but the magnitude is getting stronger,» Gede Suantika, a senior volcanologist at the agency told AFP.
Because an Earthquake is in essence just a microquake that extends a few orders of magnitude larger than usual, and microquakes happen all the time, precise prediction will probably never be possible.
You would not guess from that carefree video tour above, but that ordeal happened to be the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck Christchurch in February 2011.