Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake happened»

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

Not exact matches

He pointed to induced quakes of magnitude 4 or larger in the past year in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, but said much of this happened too late for the research council to include in its study.»

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.

Several months after we return home, another team will report in the journal Nature that these twice - daily ice quakes measure a staggering magnitude 7 — strong enough to topple cities and kill thousands if they were to happen in a populated area.

The 27 February quake happened on a section of the fault between the site of the magnitude - 9.5 quake and a magnitude - 7.8 quake that occurred in 1985.