Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake several»

The first changes to the San Andreas occurred in 1992 after a 7.3 - magnitude earthquake several hundred kilometres to the south.

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Seismic activity was detected by several monitoring agencies at 02:57 GMT at North Korea's nuclear test site, with the US Geological Survey recording a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9.

The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has captured major attention from paleoseismologists due to evidence from several large (magnitude 8 - 9) earthquakes preserved in coastal salt marshes.

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.

Rather than use a single threshold for earthquake magnitude, he ran several statistical analyses using different magnitude thresholds, looking for patterns in quakes over various intervals ranging in length from months to years — and found nothing.

Although the main earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 broke the central section of the seismic gap of a length of some 100 kilometres, two large segments further north and south remain intact, and these segments are able to cause strong earthquakes with a high risk of ground shaking and tsunamis.Oncken: «This means that the risk of one or even several earthquakes with a magnitude clearly above 8 still exists.»

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.

The following year, the deadly magnitude - 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan was also larger than expected because it ruptured several fault segments previously believed to be independent.

«We decided to look at the Chilean earthquakes because they included several greater than magnitude 8 earthquakes, recorded with an excellent and consistent GNSS network.

Now, several months after the approximately 8 magnitude April earthquake in Nepal, VIZ and Autodesk have teamed... Read more»

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 earthquake was of 6.4 magnitude that toppled several buildings, possibly killing hundreds.

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.

By now, you've probably read about the bureaucratic tangles that have been delaying the arrival and distribution of tents, food and other international relief supplies following the April 25 7.8 - magnitude earthquake that has shattered or damaged several hundred thousand homes and other structures in Nepal.

In a paper calculating new Chinese earthquake risks in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Japanese and American geophysicists analyzed shifts in stress along several faults around the area where a magnitude 7.9 temblor killed nearly 70,000 people and drew rare citizen protests because so many schools crumbled.