Sentences with phrase «minutes after an earthquake»

JUST 3 minutes after an earthquake hit California last week, the Los Angeles Times broke the story.

The other side will rush east, in a seven - hundred - mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins.

Deploy the remaining 75 percent of the Advanced National Seismic System, which provides magnitude and location alerts within a few minutes after an earthquake as well as the basic data for many of the road map tasks.

Not exact matches

The initial warning relied on preliminary seismic data that registered the earthquake as only magnitude 7.9, but it can take tens of minutes after the initial detection for long - period seismic waves to provide a fuller picture of the earthquake's energy.

In previous earthquakes in mountainous terrain, many earthquake - initiated landslides occurred from minutes to years after the initial quake.

The source was the massive 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake in Japan, and its signature was detected at this orbital altitude only eight minutes after the arrival of seismic and infrasonic waves, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech's Yu - Ming (Oscar) Yang and colleagues in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick, Canada, who present their research today at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

The app records accelerometer data continually, and after a confirmed earthquake will also send five minutes of data to the researchers, starting one minute before the quake and ending four minutes after.

The earthquake created acoustic and Rayleigh waves that moved up into the ionosphere within 10 minutes after the quake.