Sentences with phrase «magnitude of events in»

A recent study has assessed longer - lived ice loss events (Tietsche et al., 2013) and found little predictability in the onset of these events but some predictability in the magnitude of the events in simulations initialized after their onset.

«We aren't just curious about whether climate change had an impact on an event — we're also asking what can this tell us about the likelihood and magnitude of events in future.»

Not exact matches

It says something about the magnitude of the event that it played out during the tenure of two central bank Governors, each of whom were in the role for a decade, and will likely still be an important issue, in the early stages at least, for the next Governor.

«We note that these events have hit the industry at a time when it is exceedingly well - capitalised, leaving some doubt as to both the magnitude and duration of an ensuing turn in rates.

The event could have happened but never on the scale that anything of the magnitude occurring in the «literature of the bible».

But all will agree in recognizing that early in the first century in Palestine there lived a man «mighty in word and deed» whose brief career, for the most part hidden from us, was an event of incalculable magnitude, not only because of its effects but because of what it was.

I said just now, in seeking to describe the magnitude of the human events which are overtaking us, that they were of «planetary» importance.

regardless of what is the issue of the bible, the fact that it influences the lives of billions of people for meliniums or thousands of years, that magnitude of effect is beyond doubt that it is the will of God.He guided the events in history for a purpose, a process of evolution that will be the foundation of another cyclic event for the future of humanity.this has been going on for 13.7 billion years, and this will go on for billons of years more.Will you be part of history.?

According to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR, the physical magnitudes so represented define the metric structure of the space - time continuum, and fields of gravitational force are interpreted as inextricably intertwined with this structure.29 According to the Whiteheadian formulation of 0TH, the physical magnitudes so represented define a physical characteristic, the «impetus,» against the background of a uniform metric structure.30 In effect, Einstein incorporates fields of gravitational force into a theory about the metric structure of the space - time continuum, whereas Whitehead retains such fields as special physical factors constitutive of the physical field associated with an event.

A restless maverick driven from place to place by his determination to be part of whatever God was doing in the world, Bartleman singlehandedly turned the Azusa Street revival into a literary event of global magnitude by chronicling his impressions and assigning them meaning in a widely circulated book, How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles.

This annual event that has taken place for 20 - plus years has already booked out the Placer Valley hotels for that weekend due to the magnitude of the tournament and will require overflow hotel bookings in nearby markets.

Neither man has claimed a stoppage win in years and so many expect this to go the distance, but given the magnitude of the event, it would come as no surprise if there was a shocking end to proceedings.

No other event of this magnitude would ever be taken lightly, so don't feel guilty for treating this time in your life as the very big deal it is.

De Blasio said he did not go to the crash scene because, while more than 100 people were injured in the horrifying rush hour accident, no one died, so it didn't rise to the «magnitude» of an event requiring his personal attention.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was conspicuously absent from the LIRR crash scene in Brooklyn on Wednesday because — while more than 100 people were injured in the horrifying rush - hour derailment — no one died, so it didn't rise to the «magnitude» of an event requiring his personal attention.

Long explained that the agency's review determined the damage outlined in the state's request «resulted from separate and distinct events, none of which were of the severity and magnitude as to be beyond the capabilities of the state, affected local governments and voluntary agencies.»

Four papers in this issue — by Sato et al. on page 1395 (1), Simons et al. on page 1421 (2), Ide et al. on page 1426 (3), and Vigny et al. on page 1417 (4)-- report on both of these magnitude 9 (M9) earthquakes, illustrating the use of networks of Global Positioning System (GPS) detectors to reveal how the Earth's surface deformed during and after the events.

Fryer, of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, is confident that more evidence of the massive tsunami will be found, confirming that events of this magnitude have rocked the island chain in the not - so - distant past.

Events of this magnitude normally occur in a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another.

The chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluid are considered proprietary, and the magnitude and frequency of water - contamination events are not well - documented.

Two months later, in January 2007, the islands felt the force of a second large quake, this time an 8.1 - magnitude event.

This week marks the anniversary of the largest earthquake recorded, a magnitude 9.5 event along southern Chile's coast in 1960

«The magnitude of this event has raised important questions about how these previous, existing regulations [for dispersants] may need to be reexamined and revisited in ways that ask different questions and even better prepare us in the future,» Anastas admitted.

Such deep - drilling operations would not want a repeat of events in Basel, Switzerland, where a widely felt magnitude 3.4 quake in 2006 ultimately stopped a similar geothermal project.

«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.

Although many of those quakes triggered local aftershocks in the day or so after the initial event, Parsons and Velasco found no corresponding increase in the frequency of distant quakes with magnitudes ranging between 5 and 7.

Laboratory Models In 1975 Ari Ben - Menahem, a seismologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, analyzed the seismic waves triggered by the Tunguska event and estimated that the energy released by the explosion was between 10 and 15 megatons in magnitude, the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombIn 1975 Ari Ben - Menahem, a seismologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, analyzed the seismic waves triggered by the Tunguska event and estimated that the energy released by the explosion was between 10 and 15 megatons in magnitude, the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombin Rehovot, Israel, analyzed the seismic waves triggered by the Tunguska event and estimated that the energy released by the explosion was between 10 and 15 megatons in magnitude, the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombin magnitude, the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

More than 300 earthquakes above a magnitude 3.0 occurred in the three years from 2010 - 2012, compared with an average rate of 21 events per year observed from 1967 - 2000.

The seismic events in that supposed grouping, consisting of 3 magnitude 9 or higher temblors, struck Kamchatka, then Chile and then Alaska within a 12 - year interval.

A team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) published a study this week that estimated the probability of a Magnitude 9 + earthquake in the Aleutian Islands — an event with sufficient power to create a mega-tsunami especially threatening to Hawai'i.

What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.

«Although the simulated earthquake - induced tsunamis are not small, there has been a recorded history of significantly larger events, in terms of earthquake magnitude and mainshock areas, taking place in the region,» says Samaras.

While the Markagunt landslide was a rare event, it shows the magnitude of what could happen in modern volcanic fields like the Cascades.

If the risk for such an event during this century increased in a steady, linear fashion, it would mean that there was a 6 percent chance of having Harvey's magnitude of rainfall in Texas this year.

In the normal distribution of a bell curve, you never get such extremes, but the pattern underlying the power curve enables a few rare events of extraordinary magnitude.

Concentrations in the groundwater were typically at least one order of magnitude lower than the concentrations in the treatment plant effluent, suggesting that the soil generally acted as an effective biogeochemical filter, except during snowmelt events.

A geologist working at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu talks about the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 event near that city

In this case, the meteor's boom — its sound waves — were recorded as a magnitude - 2.0 event on a nearby seismometer located about 5 miles (8 kilometers) southwest of New Haven, Michigan.

In his talk, McAdoo will present case studies that he and his colleague Vivienne Bryner compiled comparing death counts and economic fallout following geophysical events of similar magnitude in areas with different levels of economic developmenIn his talk, McAdoo will present case studies that he and his colleague Vivienne Bryner compiled comparing death counts and economic fallout following geophysical events of similar magnitude in areas with different levels of economic developmenin areas with different levels of economic development.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), an average rate of 100 earthquakes per year above a magnitude 3.0 occurred in the three years from 2010 - 2012, compared with an average rate of 21 events per year observed from 1967 - 2000.

During that event, 14 phones in the state triggered, but even this relatively small number of phones allowed the seismology lab to peg the magnitude within 1 percent of estimates from ground seismic stations, and located the epicenter to within 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).

And Brakenridge points out another less immediate application: «We have to know how big a flood event is and keep a global record of such events in order to determine if climate change is accompanied by changes in the frequency and magnitude of big floods.»

At the press briefing, Steven Benner, a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was invited to the event to offer outside comment, used the analogy of a steel chain with a tinfoil link to illustrate that the arsenate ion said to replace phosphate in the bacterium's DNA forms bonds that are orders of magnitude less stable.

In this earth system model, human belief systems and corresponding climate governance will drive anthropogenic GHG emissions that force the climate system, while the magnitude of climate change and related extreme events will influence human perception of associated risk.

Recent computational studies have shown that strong SEP events may produce ionization and dose rate enhancements of more than four orders of magnitude both at altitude in the Martian atmosphere and at the surface (Norman et al. 2014; Gronoff et al. 2015).

If it is true, as some studies suggest for example, that El Nino events become more frequent and greater in magnitude due to anthropogenic forcing (this is not yet a settled issue), then, given the established relationship between the El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extratropical Pacific / North American atmospheric circulation, we might expect increased baroclinicity and greater storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Pacific ocean and neighboring western U.S..

The model also accounts for the timing and magnitude of upward plasma motion to the corona observed 29 s after the event onset in 171 Å by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly / Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The Chilean earthquakes, Crowell said, represent about half of magnitude 8 events in the recorded catalog of earthquakes that are used to test G - FAST and other geodetic algorithms for inclusion in ShakeAlert.

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.

Wehner pointed out that while humans can (and do) perform well in identifying and tracking extreme weather events in real time, they simply can not keep up when climate models run two to five orders of magnitude faster.