Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake shook»

Late on Wednesday, September 20, a 5.7 - magnitude earthquake shook Bali.

A 7.2 - magnitude earthquake shook Chile again Thursday just before the country prepared to swear in its new president.

Coalition members arrived in Port - au - Prince days after the 7.0 - magnitude earthquake shook the Haitian capital to provide immediate medical aid to the stricken animals.

Not exact matches

The shaking could also lead to an earthquake falling in the 4 - 8 magnitude range.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 shook buildings in Tokyo on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

A 7.3 - magnitude earthquake has shaken the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing at least 335 people and injuring thousands more...

The first hint that Earth actually had a solid iron core beneath a liquid layer came in 1929, after a magnitude - 7.8 earthquake shook New Zealand.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / kickers A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook buildings and sent people in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas streaming outside into the summer weather on August 23 might seem like small shakes for residents of more quake - prone regions of the nation.

A magnitude - 9.0 earthquake would likely give way along the whole north - south extent of the subduction zone, but it's not well known how far east the shake - producing area would extend, approaching the area beneath major cities such as Seattle and Portland.

But on 25 April, it was reduced to rubble by the magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake — even though many one - and two - story buildings escaped the shaking relatively unscathed.

The effect of an earthquake on people and cities depends on more than magnitude alone: the Earth's crust can amplify or dampen the severity of shaking

Of those, 16 states, all of which have had earthquakes of at least magnitude 6 in historical times, are considered highly likely to experience damaging ground shaking.

The severity of earthquake shaking is fundamentally controlled by three factors: earthquake magnitude, the attenuation of energy as waves move through the crust and the modification of shaking due to the local geological structure.

SHAKE DAMAGE The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 killed 63 people and caused thousands of injuries in Northern California.

Bigger earthquakes generally create stronger shaking, but not all earthquakes of a given magnitude are created equal.

But the effect on a structure could be even larger than what's anticipated from a magnitude 6 earthquake due to the longer duration of shaking that would negatively impact the resilience of a structure.»

At a demonstration project in Japan, even a magnitude 6.8 earthquake didn't shake injected CO2 loose from a deep saline aquifer; the wellheads did not so much as leak.

«We demonstrated that consecutively triggered earthquakes can enhance the amount of energy produced by the ruptures, exceeding the design specifications expected for buildings in moderate seismic hazard zones,» said Tramelli, whose analysis suggests that the shaking from multiple magnitude 5.0 earthquakes would be significantly greater than from an individual magnitude 5.0 event.

Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.

WEAK SPOTS A magnitude 7.6 earthquake that shook Costa Rica in 2012 revealed earthquake - prone weak spots in Earth's crust, new research shows.

Strong spatial variation of rupture characteristics in the moment magnitude (Mw) 9.0 Tohoku - Oki megathrust earthquake controlled both the strength of shaking and the size of the tsunami that followed.

In some instances, such as the earthquake that shook Maryland this past July, the maps have helped scientists correct their assessments of an earthquake's magnitude and epicenter.

JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters)- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck the coast of Alaska early on Friday, shaking people awake in the capital Juneau and cutting off some communications in the southeast part of the state, officials said.

But there has also been a lot of shaking, with 183 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater on the Richter scale occurring in Oklahoma from October 2013 through April 14, the USGS said.

Dividing the area into a grid of 210 - meter cells, they simulated ground motion for a magnitude 7 Seattle fault earthquake and then further subdivided into 5 - meter cells, applying anticipated amplification of shaking due to the shallow soil layers.

Researchers gained new insight into how earthquakes can interact from a magnitude 7.9 quake along Alaska's Denali Fault in November 2002 that involved a chain reaction of fault shaking.

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.»

Once these algorithms have each been applied in a process that takes just seconds, the data is passed on to another piece of software called the decision module, which synthesizes it in an instant and issues an alert to users, including the earthquake's magnitude, location and expected degree of shaking (weak, moderate, strong or very strong).

A new island emerged from the ocean offshore of the city of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a strong magnitude - 7.7 earthquake shook the country on the morning of September 24.

The magnitude 9 earthquake that shook Japan on March 11 dragged parts of the country 15 feet eastward and moved some seafloor transponders up to 230 feet, the largest earthquake - induced surface displacement ever recorded.

Records of past earthquakes on the same fault — including a powerful one (possibly as strong as magnitude 8.4) that shook Kathmandu in 1934 — indicate that ruptures have previously reached the surface.

Avouac and his colleagues found that for such a large - magnitude earthquake, high - frequency shaking in Kathmandu was actually relatively mild.

The 5.3 - magnitude earthquake that shook southern California late Thursday startled a lot of local residents, including the wildlife.A Channel Islands... Read More

The 5.3 - magnitude earthquake that shook southern California late Thursday startled a lot of local residents, including the wildlife.

This week's series of shaking episodes began after 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday when a 2.7 - magnitude earthquake was reported three miles off the coast at Point Conception.

The city of Juchitan, on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, was hit particularly hard by the 8.2 - magnitude earthquake that shook the region on Sept. 7, 2017.

That August, the artist was beaten by Chinese police for trying to testify for Tan Zuoren, with whom he had investigated the aftermath — student casualties as well as poorly constructed buildings and infrastructure — of the devastating 8.0 - magnitude earthquake that shook the Sichuan province in May of 2008.

The largest recorded earthquake with 5.5 magnitude in Ohio, shook the entire Anna city in the midnight.

In 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Nepal to its core, killing thousands of people and wounding many more.