Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake caused»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

Magnitude 5 tremors, such as the quake that hit the town of Itacarambi in Minas Gerais in 2007, cause damage and occur once every 50 years, according to the researchers.

NEW ZEALAND / / / EARTHQUAKE With an epicenter 6 miles from downtown, the Christchurch quake in February took 181 lives and caused $ 12 billion in damages despite having a magnitude of just 6.3.

Does it regularly give way, occasionally causing small, low - magnitude quakes?

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

While a magnitude - 8 quake might cause a 32 - foot (10 - meter) tsunami, Stein said, a magnitude - 9 could cause a tsunami twice as tall.

For example, no one expected that the section of fault that ruptured to cause Japan's horrific 9.1 - magnitude Tohoku quake in March 2011 could result in a quake that large.

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.

The quake in 1762, estimated at magnitude 8.8, caused land around the southeastern city of Chittagong to sink by several meters; in the Sundarbans it seems to have caused at least a 20 - centimeter drop, says Hanebuth.

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.

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.

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.

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

February 19, 1834: a quake of unmeasured magnitude shook the Hawaiian Islands, causing minor property damage.

For instance, a potential buyer for a $ 20 million apartment complex in Loma Prieta, Calif., where a devastating quake struck in 1989, might give a lender an engineering report showing that a magnitude 6.5 quake would cause $ 10 million in damage to the complex.