Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake shook»

Not exact matches

Non-tectonic temblors are usually magnitude 3 or less on the Richter scale, the famous but now antiquated way to measure a quake's shake.

The area experiences about 20 small quakes a year, plus the occasional monster, such as the magnitude 7.3 shake in 1886 that killed 60 people.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / kickers A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook buildings and sent people in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas streaming outside into the summer weather on August 23 might seem like small shakes for residents of more quake - prone regions of the nation.

In the new study, Minson, Meier and colleagues used standard ground - motion prediction equations to calculate the minimum quake magnitude that would produce shaking at any distance.

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.

Researchers gained new insight into how earthquakes can interact from a magnitude 7.9 quake along Alaska's Denali Fault in November 2002 that involved a chain reaction of fault shaking.

With four times as many stations, the Palert network can provide a detailed shaking map for damage assessments, which it did for the March 2013 magnitude 6.1 Nantou quake.

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.

Here's the «shake map» for today's 6.3 - magnitude quake, which was centered just six miles east of the city center:

The 5.8 - magnitude quake, centered in Virginia 84 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., is a reminder of the importance of factoring in shaking in the design of buildings and important installations like nuclear power plants.

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