Sentences with phrase «moderate earthquake»

The researchers used the same statistical model of injection - induced seismicity that was used in the earlier paper, but their analysis suggested a much higher probability of moderate earthquakes in 2017 (80 percent versus 37 percent).

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

The really bad news here is that California is the best case, because the state experiences just enough moderate earthquake activity to keep people attuned to the risk.

A dome collapse doesn't appear imminent, but scientists are watching for moderate earthquakes that could disrupt the pile, says seismologist Steve Malone of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Newer homes, especially those in higher - risk regions are built to withstand moderate earthquake activity.

A new analysis led by seismologists at UC Santa Cruz, published August 9 in Science Advances, found that the probability of moderate earthquakes this year in the affected areas of Oklahoma is two times higher than was suggested by an earlier analysis.

The lesson is that cities like Los Angeles that lie on strike - slip faults could face big waves after even a moderate earthquake.

While none of these small - to - moderate earthquakes has yet caused significant property damage or injury, they represent an increased probability of larger earthquakes.

«Although they were correct in saying that small earthquakes seemed to be decreasing, the moderate earthquakes are not decreasing.

On 29 June last year, at 3.14 am, a moderate earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred 13 kilometres below Little Skull Mountain.

Across the U.S. heartland, an oil and gas boom has driven a surge of small to moderate earthquakes.

By DAVID LOWRY On 29 June last year, at 3.14 am, a moderate earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter scale occurred 13 kilometres below Little Skull Mountain.

I'm on the road but can't avoid posting on the conviction of six scientists and a government functionary in Italy on criminal charges, with substantial prison sentences handed down, for statements made about earthquake risks not long before a moderate earthquake toppled buildings and killed 308 people in L'Aquila in 2009.

But now wars that excessive amounts of carbon dioxide is likely to give rise to moderate earthquakes.

Storing too much carbon underground, Zoback says, is «likely to give rise to moderate earthquakes.»

On October 24, 1965 a moderate earthquake shook things up on Nantucket Island.