Sentences with phrase «magnitude quake struck»

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) suffered the damage to its plants on February 6 when a 6.4 - magnitude quake struck the southern part of the country.Initially, TSMC reported that the damage incurred would reduce the amount of chips it could ship by less than 1 percent.

Recently a 4.1 magnitude quake struck the eastern Texas town of Timpson.

Four - year - old Labrador pup named Tie Hsiung, whose name translates to «Iron Hero», set out on his first mission as a rescue dog to search for survivors after a shocking 6.4 magnitude quake struck the eastern city of Hualien, Taiwan, on 6 Feb (Tues), resulting in a death toll of 10 people.

Less than a week later, on April 6, a 6.3 - magnitude quake struck in Abruzzo.

The 8.9 magnitude quake struck at a depth of six miles about 80 miles off the eastern coast, according to Japan's meteorological agency.

Not exact matches

A magnitude - 7.9 quake has struck in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting tsunami warnings in Alaska and British Columbia.

Elsewhere on the Ring of Fire, a magnitude - 6.1 quake struck Indonesia and a volcano erupted in Japan.

The signals generated by the magnitude - 9.1 quake that struck Japan were barely one - billionth g, the amount of Earth's gravitational field at sea level, but they traveled at the speed of light and were detected at seismometers hundreds of kilometers away, the researchers report today in Science.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

The magnitude 5.8 quake that struck central Virginia yesterday was felt from Florida, to Maine to Missouri.

No one really understood how the loose landfill would react to major earthquakes until 1985, when a magnitude - 8 quake struck the coast along the same plate boundary as Tuesday's quake.

In California not too long ago, a magnitude 4.8 quake struck near the southern San Andreas, the biggest so close to the fault in the history of seismic recording.

The findings also confirm that the entire area of the Himalayas is capable of producing large earthquakes like the magnitude - 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

According to their model, Bufe says, the probability of another quake of magnitude 9 or larger striking in the next 6 years is about 63 per cent.

The magnitude 8.2 quake that struck Chile in April was smaller than the major temblor that researchers are anticipating

The quake measured 5.7 in magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and struck at sea 80 miles south of the Greek capital.

So it was a surprise when a magnitude 4.1 «quake» struck Nuugaatsiaq, a tiny island off Greenland's west coast on 17 June.

Since the main quake struck, hundreds of aftershocks have been registered, the strongest that of April 2 (CEST) of a magnitude of 7.6.

In 1999 a magnitude - 7.6 quake struck near Izmit, just 70 kilometres from Istanbul, killing around 17,000 people.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, agencies such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit system already receive warnings from ShakeAlert, such as a 5 - second alert after the 6.0 magnitude quake that struck nearby Napa in August 2014.

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.

A high - magnitude earthquake in Japan, one notion goes, might redistribute stress in Earth's crust, subsequently triggering another temblor in the following months or years — a quake that could even strike as far away as the western shores of the U.S..

It works almost too well, Ellsworth says: on Friday the Japan Meteorological Agency issued an initial warning on its website that a magnitude - 7.9 quake had struck off the coast of central Honshu island.

However the largest quake, which had a magnitude of 3.9, struck on 23 January 2015 — 2 weeks after fracking had been completed.

The magnitude - 8.2 quake that struck off the northern coast of Chile Tuesday, 1 April, pounded the port city of Iquique with a 2 - meter tsunami.

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.

An 8.8 - magnitude quake that struck Chile a little over a month later was stronger but ultimately did less damage because that country had buildings and other infrastructure built to withstand the temblors that frequently strike the seismically active country.

There are plenty of reasons damage and deaths from the 7.1 - magnitude earthquake that struck near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday utterly paled compared to the absolute devastation wrought by the 7.0 - magnitude quake near Port - au - Prince, Haiti.

Population density over the epicenter of today's quake is similar to that where the 7.8 - magnitude struck to the west on April 25.

However, there is evidence that a large quake of at least a 7.5 magnitude struck this area hundreds of years ago, so it is something for residents to keep in mind.

January 22, 1938: a quake with a magnitude of 6.75 struck Mauna Loa.

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.

The rare, magnitude - 8.8 quake that struck Chile Feb. 27 was one of the largest in half a century.