Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake hit»

• A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Virginia on August 23, and was felt throughout the eastern seaboard.

«Samsung Electronics Co. halted operations of its smartphone production line and had all workers evacuate after a 5.4 - magnitude earthquake hit the nearby port city of Pohang on Wednesday,» the report says.

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

The group, part of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, is part of an ongoing project to develop evacuation plans and shelters for communities along Sumatra's remote southwestern coast after a devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the island in 2004.

When a 6 - magnitude earthquake hit the isthmus last year, Panama City was spared any major damage or reports of serious injuries.

An startling 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Los Angeles area early Monday morning.

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

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

Less than 24 - hours after a 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, 6.1 - magnitude tremors rocked the coast of Japan Wednesday.

Not exact matches

The 8.2 magnitude Mexican earthquake hit Friday.

But his charge changed dramatically on August 23, when Virginia was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that damaged the cathedral, along with landmarks like the Washington Monument.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake also hit the north - west coast of Ecuador at 7 pm local time on the Saturday (pictured), killing at least 272 people and injuring another 2500.

They had hit a series of parallel cracks, remnants of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the year before.

Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.

Just over one year ago, a magnitude - 9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami).

When the 7.0 - magnitude earthquake struck, computer models predicted that a tsunami would hit the nation's south shore — but with a height of just 20 centimeters, said Fritz.

DEVASTATING DISASTERS The magnitude 9.1 earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit the island of Sumatra (shown) in Indonesia in 2004 was one of the world's first truly global disasters, argues seismologist Lucy Jones in her new book, The Big Ones.

The powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile overnight was partly a consequence of a massive nearby quake in 2010.

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.

Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight, the biggest since tremors began 10 days ago, but there is still no sign of an eruption, the country's Meteorological Office said on Tuesday.

Hitting the planet at a speed of 20 kilometers per second, the 37 - to 58 - kilometer - wide space rock could have jolted Earth with at least the force of a magnitude 10.8 earthquake and set off tsunamis thousands of meters high, researchers report April 14 in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.

Since 2013, 192 earthquakes bigger than magnitude 2 have hit Harper and Sumner counties, on the border with Oklahoma, up from just two in the previous 35 years.

Six seismologists and a public official in Italy were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in 2012 after underestimating earthquake risk before a magnitude 6.3 quake hit the city of L'Aquila in April 2009.

For example, a clustering of earthquakes, the largest with magnitude between 8.0 and 8.5, hit off the coast of Crete in 365 AD.

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.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

That came under harsh scrutiny after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011.

A sizeable earthquake, magnitude 5.8, hit the Pasadena area on 28 June last year.

This is the worst earthquake to hit China since 1976 when a magnitude 7.5 temblor struck the northern Chinese city of Tangshan, leaving 240,000 dead.

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.

As I was writing this blog post, Long Beach was just hit by a 2.7 magnitude earthquake.

While en route to the country in April, the worst magnitude earthquake to hit the region in more than 80 years struck.

Recently it was reported by the U.S. Geological Survey that the probability of a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake hitting California in the next 30 years has increased dramatically.

As if these existential conundrums weren't enough to rock the foundations of Julia and Jacob's marriage, a colossal earthquake of a more literal variety (magnitude 7.6) hits the motherland and Israel is besieged — by her unfriendly neighbors and by circumstances even the ablest governments might find difficult to control.

This story originally appeared on foodandwine.com.On February 22, 2011, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit Christchurch, the second largest city in New... Read More

The tsunami was triggered by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska, and waves as high as 27 feet hit the Pacific Northwest coastline.

Several media outlets are reporting no damage after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit the Caribbean between the coast of Honduras and the Cayman Islands Tuesday night.

The city of Juchitan, on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, was hit particularly hard by the 8.2 - magnitude earthquake that shook the region on Sept. 7, 2017.

Heritage sites damaged in fatal Italian earthquake A 6.2 - magnitude earthquake has hit central Italy, killing at least 73 people and destroying buildings in several historic towns.

Haitians outside a Red Cross field hospital in Carrefour, Haiti, on Dec. 14, 2010, 11 months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the country's capital, Port - au - Prince.

Can't recall the numbers, but they were well over their design goal for withstanding an earthquake of magnitude «n» when the quakes hit, and they stood up fine (to the earthquakes, not the tsunami, of course).

Sure enough, according to the USGS study, «Oklahoma is by far the worst - hit state recently... [t] he state last year had more magnitude 3 (or higher) earthquakes than California, part of a huge increase recorded in recent years.»

«The force of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake followed by a tsunami is far worse than would be inflicted even by a direct - hit airline crash or bombing raid.

An earthquake of 8.9 magnitude struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan on Friday, the most powerful to hit Japan in at least 100 years.

The ferocious tsunami and 8.9 - magnitude earthquake that hit Japan affected millions of travelers worldwide.

Just know these two things: California residents buy more earthquake insurance than any other states; and the U.S. Geological Survey says that the likelihood of a 6.7 - magnitude quake hitting the Bay Area by 2039 is 63 %.

[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.

The southeastern coast of South Korea was hit by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake Wednesday.