Sentences with phrase «magnitude earthquake which»

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At least 22 earthquakes, registering at magnitude - 2.5 or more, were reported across the state over a 13 - hour period Wednesday night into Thursday morning, most of which took place in Woods County, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

These legitimate seismologists, volcanologists, physicists and engineers are being threatened with charges of manslaughter for failing to definitively predict an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 in the city of L'Aquila on April 6, 2009, which took more than 300 lives and injured an additional 1,600 area residents.

The maps are based largely upon the 1946 tsunami, which followed a magnitude 8.6 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands and caused water to rise only two and a half meters (8 feet) up the side of the Makauwahi sinkhole.

After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast quakes — they settled on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage even well - built structures.

A 9.0 - magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands triggered the mighty wave, which left behind up to nine shipping containers worth of ocean sediment in a sinkhole on the island of Kauai.

This is a photograph of damage to Helena High School, which collapsed following a major aftershock of the 1935 Helena magnitude 6.2 earthquake in Montana.

The southern Hayward fault, which produced a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in 1868, is now approaching its mean recurrence time based on paleoseismic studies.

And geologists now say that such induced earthquakes could potentially be large, up to magnitude 7, which is big enough to cause buildings to collapse and widespread damage.

So far, the largest induced earthquake in the United States has been the 2011 magnitude - 5.6 earthquake in Prague, Oklahoma, which damaged dozens of buildings.

For the first time, the new study shows that the rate at which tectonic plates collide controls the magnitude of earthquakes in mountainous regions.

The simulations suggest that the magnitude and frequency of the earthquakes in mountainous regions are directly related to the rate at which the tectonic plates collide.

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

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.

Unreinforced brick masonry and stone buildings have been shown to be especially vulnerable to earthquakes,» said Erol Kalkan, a research structural engineer at USGS and guest editor of the SRL special issue, which features six technical reports that cover different aspects of the magnitude 6.0 South Napa earthquake on August 24, 2014.

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).

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

Nearby seismometers revealed that the events released energy equivalent to earthquakes of magnitudes 5.1 and 4.9 and triggered 16 tiny quakes over 10 days, the smallest of which packed less pop than a hand grenade.

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.

Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes are small, but MyShake users in the state, which number only about 200, easily detected the Sept. 3 magnitude 5.8 quake, the strongest ever to hit the state.

These numbers are on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, which is on a different scale than earthquake magnitude:

Ten magnitude 8 or greater earthquakes have occurred along the Chilean coast in the past 100 years, including the 1960 magnitude 9.5 Valdivia earthquake, which is the largest earthquake recorded by instruments.

The result is a model that quantifies the distance that an earthquake can propagate beyond an injection site — which in turn predicts the maximum magnitude of an induced seismic event.

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-...]

The 2004 tsunami, which caused widespread destruction, was triggered by a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 just off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The 2004 tsunami, which caused widespread destruction, was triggered by a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 just off the coast of the...

There are 42 states at risk for earthquakes, out of which 16 have registered magnitude 6 or greater quakes on the Richter scale and are considered high - risk.

In contrast to the 7.9 China earthquake, the italian tremor had a magnitude of 6.3 according to the United States Geological Survey — the italians still report it as 5.8, which makes the analogy worse.

This is quite reminiscent of the 1999 Izmit Turkey magnitude 7.4 earthquake which killed over 17,000, where traditional structures had been left standing amidst four - to five - floor collapsed apartment buildings....

In 1960, a 9.5 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile, after which the country embarked on a massive earthquake - safety program and enforcing new building codes.

Deploy the remaining 75 percent of the Advanced National Seismic System, which provides magnitude and location alerts within a few minutes after an earthquake as well as the basic data for many of the road map tasks.

North Texas experienced 11 earthquakes within 27 hours in which the strongest of them was 3.6 in magnitude (Information provided by the Texas Office of State Climatology).

Seismologists at Columbia University and Harvard University have found a new indicator that the Earth is warming: «glacial earthquakes» caused when the rivers of ice lurch unexpectedly and produce temblors as strong as magnitude 5.1 on the moment - magnitude scale, which is similar to the Richter scale.

«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.

The earthquake was actually an aftershock to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake which had occurred five months earlier, in September 2010.

The Chile earthquake, which hit 8.8 in magnitude and occurred off the coastline, was «the first mega-quake to strike a developed country with rigorous building codes,» says Yanev, who is the author of Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country: How to Save Your Home, Business, and Life (Chronicle Booearthquake, which hit 8.8 in magnitude and occurred off the coastline, was «the first mega-quake to strike a developed country with rigorous building codes,» says Yanev, who is the author of Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country: How to Save Your Home, Business, and Life (Chronicle BooEarthquake Country: How to Save Your Home, Business, and Life (Chronicle Books, 2009).