Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake last»

Compact in size and simply installed, they are easily accommodated in a wide range of Bay Area residents were shaken awake by a magnitude quake last night.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

That would be a big improvement over the warnings issued after last year's Tohoku quake, which Japanese officials initially put at magnitude 8.

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be part of a pattern of big quakes around the world over the last decade, says Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz.

Estimating magnitude for larger quakes also takes more time, because the rupture of the fault lasts perhaps several seconds longer — a significant chunk of time when it comes to EEW.

Temblors that size are rare indeed: only 7 quakes as large or larger than 8.8 — the magnitude of last February's Chilean event — have occurred since 1900.

«Those are enormous slips,» Wald says, running about two to three times the maximum slip reported for the magnitude - 8.8 Maule, Chile, quake of last year.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

Earthquakes can genuinely be triggered by large scale melting, though; it seems that Norway had quakes up to magnitude 7 during the last deglaciation:

I checked in with Sieh on Wednesday in the wake of the latest powerful quake, a 7.7 magnitude event that spawned a potent tsunami and has killed, at last count, more than 300 people.

Earthquakes can genuinely be triggered by large scale melting, though; it seems that Norway had quakes up to magnitude 7 during the last deglaciation: