Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake jolted»
A 5.2 - magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off Taiwan's Hualien County at 7:47 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center Source: Xinhua 2018/5/2 9:17:19
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At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.
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.
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.
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.
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.