Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake near»

That is why the death toll in the 7.8 - magnitude earthquake near Katmandu today is almost certainly going to be far higher than initial reports of hundreds.

The US Geologic Survey reports an 2.5 magnitude earthquake near 2:30 this morning, approximately 8.6 miles from Olcott, 3.1 miles deep in Lake Ontario.

Not exact matches

Earthquake swarms are frequent in this area of the northern Red Sea near Abu Dabbab, but most of the earthquakes are weak, ranging in magnitude from 0.3 to 3.5.

In 2011, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Oklahoma, damaged buildings — and was linked to wastewater injection from oil and gas operations.

A 5.0 - magnitude earthquake struck near Cushing, Oklahoma, this evening (Nov. 6) at 7:44 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 and 343T) installed a borehole temperature observatory 16 months after the March 2011 moment magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake across the fault where slip was ~ 50 meters near the trench.

«Magnitude 8.2 earthquake off Chile: Thrust faulting at shallow depths near the Chilean coast.»

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.

(Reuters)- A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Sunday morning, triggering a tsunami warning that was later cancelled, according to U.S. government agencies, and there were no immediate reports of damage.

Researchers first put the two - story structure through a simulation of the 6.4 - magnitude Imperial Valley earthquake, which took place in 1979 near the U.S. - Mexico border.

If a massive earthquake strikes near one of the heavily populated cities in the Ganges Plain, however, «such an estimate may be too low by an order of magnitude.

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.

A truck trapped in a spot of liquefied ground near Christchurch, New Zealand, after a magnitude - 5.8 earthquake struck the city in 2011.

The 5.5 magnitude earthquake happened at 0528 GMT (01:28 a.m. EDT) near the volcano, Iceland's Meteorological Office said.

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

Few experts had thought that the seismic zone near Sendai, Japan, was capable of producing earthquakes anywhere near as powerful as the magnitude - 9.0 shock on 11 March, the largest on record in Japan.

So when he heard on April 25 that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake had struck near Gorkha, Nepal, not far from Kathmandu, he thought he knew what to expect — utter devastation throughout Kathmandu and a death toll in the hundreds of thousands.

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.

On Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC an earthquake occurred near the East coast of Honshu, Japan, 373 km NE of Tokyo Japan with a preliminary magnitude of 8.9 - according to USGS.

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.

An interactive USGS map showing Thursday's 5.3 - magnitude earthquake in relation to Tuesday's quake near Point Conception.

Firefighters gather near the damaged Sant «Agostino church in the central Italian village of Amatrice on 26 August, 2016, three days after a 6.2 - magnitude earthquake struck the region.

There are plenty of reasons damage and deaths from the 7.1 - magnitude earthquake that struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday utterly paled compared to the absolute devastation wrought by the 7.0 - magnitude quake near Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

A tsunami was generated after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:17 p.m. Eastern time beneath the sea near the volcanic eruption in waters near Tonga.

An earthquake with magnitude 7.7 occurred near Prince Rupert, BC, Canada at 03:04:10.56 UTC on Oct 28, 2012.

Face it, none of us would want a magnitude 5 earthquake near our house.

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.