Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake hits»

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

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.

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

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 %.

Not exact matches

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.

The system should be especially good at predicting aftershocks, such as the magnitude - 4.3 tremor that hit the central Italian quake zone on Thursday.

Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami).

It was a similar story in 2007, when the Kashiwazaki - Kariwa plant in western Japan was rocked by a magnitude - 6.6 quake, and last year, when a magnitude - 5.8 quake hit less than 20 kilometres from the North Anna plant in Virginia.

Stefano Lorito of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome and colleagues assessed the amount of land movement during the magnitude 8.8 quake that hit Chile in February 2010, claiming over 500 lives.

It covered all the major details — when the quake hit, its magnitude and how far it spread.

The powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile overnight was partly a consequence of a massive nearby quake in 2010.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

A series of aftershocks followed the quake, the strongest a magnitude 5.9, hit the region shortly afterwards, the USGS said.

Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit the city, killing 309 people.

Six seismologists and a public official in Italy were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in 2012 after underestimating earthquake risk before a magnitude 6.3 quake hit the city of L'Aquila in April 2009.

In November 2016, the second largest quake ever recorded in New Zealand — the 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura quake — hit the country's South Island.

That April 1 quake, which struck offshore near the village of Pisagua, was the largest in Chile since a magnitude - 8.8 quake hit farther south in 2010.

On March 11, a powerful, magnitude 9.0 quake hit northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10 - meter - high waves that reached the U.S. west coast.

Stein and his colleagues looked at the seismic records and more than 2,000 years of written records in northern China and found that, during that timeframe, no magnitude - 7 or greater quake ever hit at the same place on a fault more than once.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit, killing 309 people.

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.

Can't recall the numbers, but they were well over their design goal for withstanding an earthquake of magnitude «n» when the quakes hit, and they stood up fine (to the earthquakes, not the tsunami, of course).