Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake»

This long period of «afterslip» compares to just a year of afterslip for a similar magnitude quake in Napa, California in 2014, demonstrating large variation in fault behavior after earthquakes.

The 6.3 magnitude quake hit at lunchtime, when the city was at its busiest, and was shallow enough to cause severe devastation.

Less than a week later, on April 6, a 6.3 - magnitude quake struck in Abruzzo.

Officials warned that more than 12 million people were at risk, including residents of Cebu City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2 - magnitude quake last month.

This 7.9 magnitude quake originated in the San Andreas Fault and damaged property from Parkfield to Wrightwood.

Most cause no serious damage, but a 5.9 magnitude quake near Athens in 1999 killed 143 people.

The powerful shaking from several recent subduction zone earthquakes around the world — notably the 9.0 - magnitude Tohoku earthquake in 2011 and the 8.2 - magnitude quake off the coast of Chile in 2014 — and geologic evidence from deep - sea cores of powerful quakes in the past now suggest that southern Cascadia could experience an earthquake as powerful as magnitude 9.3.

Only 12 days later and a few hundred miles away, a 7.1 magnitude quake rocked central Mexico, toppling buildings, breaking gas mains, knocking out...

Then, just two hours later, a 6.1 - magnitude quake happened not too far from the same area.

One of the few consolations is that quakes of magnitude 8.5 and above are rare: the Sendai earthquake is in the top 10 of the highest - magnitude quakes of the last 100 years.

In November 2006, an 8.3 - magnitude quake shook the Kuril Islands north of Japan as the Pacific plate pushed beneath them.

The 8.9 magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo.

The after - effects of this volcanic outburst are still being felt today, as earthquakes like the 5.8 magnitude quake centered near Mineral, Va. in 2011 still rumble through the faults weakened by the volcanoes.

The east fault slipped again last year, and the resulting 6.1 - magnitude quake killed 51.

In this case, the quake was caused when a 620 - mile - long (1,000 kilometers) stretch of the Nazca plate, an oceanic plate that forms a large swath of the Pacific Ocean floor, lurched deeper beneath the South American plate, producing the only 9.5 - magnitude quake on record.

Occasionally, however, a high magnitude quake does occur.

In 1868, for example, a 7.9 magnitude quake caused millions in damages and killed 77 people.

After a 7.1 magnitude quake hits southern Nevada, destroying, among other things, the Hoover Dam, Lawrence and his team determine that an even more powerful quake is coming very soon — The Biggie — along the San Andreas fault line of southern California.

The 8.9 magnitude quake struck at a depth of six miles about 80 miles off the eastern coast, according to Japan's meteorological agency.

This 7.8 magnitude quake originated in the San Andreas Fault and damaged property from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino.

According to Seoul, nuclear test on Sunday resulted in an artificial 5.7 magnitude quake in Kilju, which is in the northern Hamgyong province where North Korea conducts its nuclear tests, according to the AP.

The March 2011, 8.9 - magnitude quake off the coast of Japan that caused a tsunami, waves that reached California within twelve hours, moved the island of Japan by about eight feet, and shifted the Earth on its axis by about four inches, this is an example of the magnitude of natural forces — mostly unappreciated by humanity — that are continuously shaping Earth's climate.

There are plenty of reasons damage and deaths from the 7.1 - magnitude earthquake that struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday utterly paled compared to the absolute devastation wrought by the 7.0 - magnitude quake near Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

March 2018 — Present / Mexico On September 7, 2017, one of the most lethal earthquakes in Mexican history, an alarming 8.2 magnitude quake, shuddered near the southern state of Chiapas.

South Korean officials said a tremor, equivalent to a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, had been detected in north Hamgyong province, in the north - east, and the US Geological Survey said it had recorded a 4.2 magnitude quake in North Korea.

Entergy insists Indian Point's reactors can easily withstand the sort of low - magnitude quakes that occur in the Northeast, which are nothing compared to the 8.9 monster that ravaged Northern Japan, causing a massive tsunami.

NEW Zealand's worst earthquake fear — an 8.9 magnitude quake that would dwarf the 2011 quake that demolished Christchurch — is a real possibility.

And it's good timing: The planet appears to be experiencing an uptick in high - magnitude quakes.

A powerful 8.0 magnitude quake in 2013 in a similar area generated a local tsunami that killed at least five people.

The 4,312 landslides that happened within six weeks after the quake were far fewer than occurred after similar - magnitude quakes in other mountainous areas.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

The worst damage reported was to the University of Concepción, near the epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude quake.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, agencies such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system already receive warnings from ShakeAlert, such as a 5 - second alert after the 6.0 magnitude quake that struck nearby Napa in August 2014.

By 1973, however, oil company scientists had turned up evidence of a large offshore fault 2.8 miles west of the plant, requiring PG&E to spend $ 2.2 billion on re-engineering to withstand a 7.5 - magnitude quake.

In May 2012, a 4.8 magnitude quake hit Timpson — the largest ever monitored in the region.

«A rupture from Richmond to Gilroy would produce about a 7.3 magnitude quake, but it would be even greater if the rupture extended south to Hollister, where the Calaveras Fault meets the San Andreas Fault,» Chaussard said.

The largest number of phones to record a quake was 103, after the 5.2 magnitude quake that occurred on the San Jacinto fault near Borrego Springs in San Diego County on June 10.

The largest quake detected occurred on April 16 in Ecuador: a 7.8 magnitude quake that triggered two phones, 170 and 200 kilometers from the epicenter.

It's been 159 years since the San Andreas fault unleashed a 7.9 magnitude quake.

An 8.8 - magnitude quake that struck Chile a little over a month later was stronger but ultimately did less damage because that country had buildings and other infrastructure built to withstand the temblors that frequently strike the seismically active country.

A 6.5 magnitude quake hit Japan on Thursday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 850 others.

Bay Area residents were shaken awake by a magnitude quake last night.

It will take time to determine whether the iPad causes a tremor in the e-reader market, a high - magnitude quake or something in between.

These policies are designed chiefly to protect homeowners from catastrophic destruction to their homes that may be caused by a high - magnitude quake.

Just know these two things: California residents buy more earthquake insurance than any other states; and the U.S. Geological Survey says that the likelihood of a 6.7 - magnitude quake hitting the Bay Area by 2039 is 63 %.

Ever since the Field Act, buildings in the Golden State have had to meet certain structural requirements, but even newer homes can't always withstand the danger of a high - magnitude quake.

Four - year - old Labrador pup named Tie Hsiung, whose name translates to «Iron Hero», set out on his first mission as a rescue dog to search for survivors after a shocking 6.4 magnitude quake struck the eastern city of Hualien, Taiwan, on 6 Feb (Tues), resulting in a death toll of 10 people.

I don't want to make light of this, but to compare this in Tokyo - Yokohama, Japan on September 1, 1923 there was an 8.3 magnitude quake that produced an 11 meter (36 foot) Tsunami that killed about 143,000 people.