Sentences with word «megaquake»

They compensated for the rarity of megaquakes by widening their focus to events of magnitude 7 and higher.

Strain has been building up since the last megaquake, a magnitude 8.8 in 1877.

Explore the biggest environment stories of 2011, including: the Japanese megaquake, Earth's ticking time bombs, and the first field tests of geoengineering

With regard to the article «Rule book rewrite for megaquakes» (23 April, p 6), your diagrams seem to refer to...

When a devastating megaquake rocked the region north of Tokyo in March, nobody saw such a huge quake coming.

His findings also suggest that the plate is cooling faster than expected, which affects the friction at the collision zone and the resulting size of any potential megaquake.

Aftershocks have ravaged the east coast of Japan since the Sendai megaquake of 11 March, and are expected to continue in the coming days.

Yet the apparent clustering of such megaquakes, including the recent Indonesian, Chilean and Japanese events can be accounted for without a direct link, several scientists say.

That, says Parsons, means that even megaquakes shouldn't trigger large quakes more than a couple of thousand kilometres away.

That the Japanese and Chilean megaquakes occurred only 13 months apart is a statistical fluke, the chance alignment of two independent events.

The disaster showcased the power of strong, well - enforced building codes to defend against megaquakes.

Even though geologists identified 41 past Cascadia megaquakes, they can not pinpoint exactly when the next Cascadia earthquake will strike.

As Dr. Bilham explains, the human pulse of population growth and urbanization has come largely in gaps between known megaquakes that have occurred cyclically in a great arc from the European ranges through the Himalayas and across the Pacific.

The last megaquake to strike this region, one estimated to have been a magnitude 9 or greater, occurred the evening of January 26, 1700.

Since the Japanese megaquake, much has been made of the fact that many reactors may face quakes that exceed those they were designed to withstand.

With regard to the article «Rule book rewrite for megaquakes» (23 April, p 6), your diagrams seem to refer to the wrong plate.

Seismologists debate whether the recent spate of megaquakes is a statistical fluke or something more.

Could the earthquake that hit off Indonesia 6 years ago somehow have touched off a cluster of great earthquakes spanning the Pacific, including the magnitude - 9.0 «megaquake» that just struck off Japan?

Failing at quake prediction, seismologists tried making fuzzier forecasts, but Japan's megaquake is only the latest reminder of the method's shortcomings.

The crisis that unfolded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after Japan's megaquake and tsunami is rewriting the nuclear safety guide.

Social media in the Arab Spring, Japanese megaquake and nuclear disaster, orgasms in the brain, HIV drugs, faster - than - light neutrinos, Higgs and more

Even the Onagawa plant, which sits closer to the megaquake's epicentre than Fukushima, shut down with no major damage.

Most geologists say that the number of megaquakes is too small to be able to make a statistically convincing case for a link.

This presents a horrifying possibility: that there is a link between these megaquakes and that, as a result, more could strike.

Discussions over the clustering of megaquakes will rumble on.

Aftershocks are occurring as the tectonic plates readjust to find a new stable distribution of regional stresses after the megaquake.

While some scientists argue that these «megaquakes» could be the vanguard of an extended outburst of strong seismic events, many others suggest that the apparent cluster of recent temblors is nothing more than a statistical fluke.

In an update to an analysis first published in June 2005, Bufe and colleague David Perkins, a USGS geophysicist also in Denver, argue that the most recent round of large temblors may mark the beginning of a new global outbreak of megaquakes.

The megaquake connection: Are huge earthquakes linked?

The magnitude 9 megaquake that devastated Japan March 11 was the fifth largest in the last 110 years.

This was the third investigative report since the megaquake and tsunami struck on 11 March last year.

It began operating in February 2010 and stopped gathering data in March, when Japan was rocked by the magnitude - 9 megaquake.

The last megaquake, estimated as a magnitude 9, occurred in 1700 — that's 311 years ago.

Would these «megaquakes» be cause by a warming atmosphere?