Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake rocked»

A mother bald eagle got a scare when a 5.3 - magnitude earthquake rocked her nest in California's Channel Islands National Park.

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked wine country north of San Francisco early on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, two of them seriously, damaging historic buildings, setting some homes on fire and causing power outages around the picturesque town of Napa.

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the small country of Ecuador on April 16, 2016.

A deadly 8.1 - magnitude earthquake rocks Mexico.

Not exact matches

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocks central Italy.

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

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 rocked Southeast Asia.

I saw the nauseating wealth of Mumbai's upper class, experienced the destitution that slept in the louse - ridden corridors of an Indian orphanage, and got rocked by a magnitude - 6.9 earthquake.

More than 200 people have lost their lives in the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked Puebla, Mexico.

On April 4 at 3:40 p.m., a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Baja, Mexico, and was felt well north.

However, Tsutsui does worry that the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan on March 11, 2011 may have hindered the country's internationalization endeavors.

Alerts issued by earthquake early warning systems, called EEWs, are based on several parameters: the depth and location of the quake's origin, its estimated magnitude and the ground properties, such as the types of soil and rock that seismic waves would travel through.

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.

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake rocked the Dominican Republic in 1946, the Associated Press noted.

The landslide's two rock avalanches were not earthquakes but, like mine collapses and nuclear explosions, they were recorded on seismographs and had magnitudes that were calculated on three different scales:

A month after a magnitude - 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile, the country's scientific community says it needs millions in aid and wants control over the country's tsunami early - warning system.

Several studies published by Das and other research groups indicated that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kunlunshan, Tibet, in 2001 zipped along at five to six kilometers (three to 3.7 miles) a second, or close to the speed of sound in rock.

On 27 February, at 3:34 in the morning, Chile was rocked by a magnitude - 8.8 earthquake.

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.