Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake last»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Cascadia's fault can and will generate the same kind of earthquake we saw last year: magnitude 9 or higher.

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

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be part of a pattern of big quakes around the world over the last decade, says Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz.

To find out how the news of bin Laden's death is being received in Islamabad, Scientific American spoke with retail management professor Murtaza Haider of Ryerson University in Toronto, who returned to his native Pakistan last week to conduct research on country's rehabilitation after the devastating magnitude 7.6 earthquake in 2005.

The Izmit earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 which lasted for 45 seconds killed over 17,000 in northwestern Turkey on 17 August 1999.

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 science news around the world this week, public health officials in South Wales are trying to contain a measles outbreak; questions are still spinning around the legality of a geoengineering experiment conducted last summer in international waters; a magnitude - 6.6 earthquake struck below the surface of Ya'an, China; and more.

Whereas prosecutors argue that it is not, an open letter sent last year to Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, and signed by more than 5,000 members of the scientific community claims that the defendants are being persecuted for failing to do the impossible — predict the time, place and magnitude of an earthquake.

Whether last weekend's 6.5 magnitude temblor off the coast of Northern California's Humboldt County and the Haiti earthquake two days later are linked is yet to be determined.

Although the CSZ has been relatively quiet in recent years, researchers have compiled a historical record of full and partial ruptures of the massive fault, with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami last occurring in 1700.

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.

Elevated land - based islands are what one architect is proposing for the Tōhoku region of north - east Japan, the area that was devastated by last March's magnitude 9 earthquake and the mega-tsunamis it triggered.

But especially in PG&E's case, opponents had been citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's 9.0 - magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern Japan.

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

In an update of seismic hazards last month, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a 14.3 percent likelihood of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake on the Hayward Fault in the next 30 years, and a 7.4 percent chance on the Calaveras Fault.

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

Oklahoma has gotten the worst of it, averaging more than 700 earthquakes per year of magnitude 3 or greater over the last three years — compared with just one per year from 1974 to 2008.

Earthquakes can genuinely be triggered by large scale melting, though; it seems that Norway had quakes up to magnitude 7 during the last deglaciation:

Oklahoma's last major earthquake was in November 2011, when a magnitude - 5.6 earthquake centered near Prague, Oklahoma, destroyed 14 homes and injured at least two people.

Following on from last week's second trailer [watch it here], a new poster has arrived online for the disaster epic San Andreas, which reunites Journey 2: The Mysterious Island helmer Brad Peyton with leading man Dwayne Johnson... After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and -LSB-...]

It was partially damaged when a 7.2 - magnitude earthquake struck Bohol and other parts of Central Visayas last October 15, 2013.

LAST FRIDAY NIGHT at 9:09 PM, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake shivered through Los Angeles.

Remarkably, experts tell me they see signs of progress amid the destruction and carnage in Nepal left by the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake that struck 50 miles from Katmandu last Saturday.

Earthquakes can genuinely be triggered by large scale melting, though; it seems that Norway had quakes up to magnitude 7 during the last deglaciation:

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.»

«After a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck central China last May, killing 69,000 people, injuring hundreds of thousands and leaving millions homeless, the government is planning an extensive reconstruction project that includes building more than 1.5 million temporary homes, which are expected to last two or three years.