Sentences with phrase «more earthquakes»

How many more earthquakes might occur because we shoot billions of gallons of liquid into the earth?

«We need to predict more earthquakes and accumulate the errors and successes,» he says.

One or more earthquake shocks that occur within a seventy - two hour period will constitute a single earthquake.

You'll have to pay more earthquake coverage for brick houses.

California also experiences more earthquakes than any state besides Alaska.

In Western Sumatra, Indonesia, some homeowners have seen their brick houses collapse in one, two or even three earthquakes and so are shifting back to timber - based homes that are more earthquake resistant.

(Regrettably, these older districts were saw more earthquake damage than newer areas like Polanco.)

Burgmann isn't too worried about sea level rise causing more earthquakes or volcanic eruptions though, noting that catastrophic rates of sea level rise in the future are uncertain and that the current rate of rise — about 0.12 inches per year (3 millimeters per year)-- isn't enough to destabilize the crust.

Just know these two things: California residents buy more earthquake insurance than any other states; and the U.S. Geological Survey says that the likelihood of a 6.7 - magnitude quake hitting the Bay Area by 2039 is 63 %.

Just know these two things: California residents buy more earthquake insurance than any other states; and the U.S. Geological Survey says that the likelihood of a 6.7 - magnitude quake hitting the Bay Area by 2039 is 63 %.

It has resulted in more earthquakes.

People living near a geothermal drilling project in fault - riddled northern California are worried about more earthquakes after a similar project triggered a major jolt in Switzerland.

This dry - rock geothermal approach has the potential to harness much more heat than the traditional sandstone techniques, but it can also mean more earthquakes.

Seismologists installed more earthquake - monitoring devices in the Dallas suburb of Irving on Thursday as officials examined contingency plans after a series of temblors raised concerns for the area near the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium.

«Because of the missing slab in the hole, there's no way to generate earthquakes, so we might be able to know where more earthquakes will take place.»

Now, it is being deployed to Alaska, with more earthquakes each year than the 48 lower states combined.

The volcano has not yet started to produce more earthquakes as it gradually rebuilds toward another eruption, which typically happen every decade or so.

Their work suggest that there are roughly three times more earthquake sequences of magnitude 2 or larger induced by hydraulic fracturing compared to wastewater disposal in the area — even though there are about 10 times more hydraulic fracturing wells than wastewater disposal wells.

Some areas are known to be more earthquake prone than others because they lie on major fault lines such as the San Andreas Fault in California, and the Madrid Fault in Missouri, or the Wasatch Fault in Utah.

«More Earthquakes for Chile?

Only Alaska and California experience more earthquakes than Nevada.

Tin roofs held up by steel rebar — reinforced concrete columns remain the norm, rather than the more traditional — and more earthquake resistant — combination of wooden supports for brick buildings.

«We believe Brazil has many more earthquake - prone areas than are identified by the old map on which the standard was based,» he said.

Experts say the work could be used to explain why some areas are more prone to human - induced earthquakes, such as Oklahoma, which now sees more earthquakes than California.

not sure if these people r right or wrong I do know that the usa is having more Earthquakes that are more than normal, look down in Missouri at the New Madrid fault, in Pennsylvania up in Maine in Canada the problem is that the crust of the earth is shifting if you believe this or not it may not be the end of the world as we see it but it will change a lot in the next few months.

There are no more earthquakes than normal... just the upper end of the median range.

They have more earthquakes than California.

«It may be, however, that more earthquakes are being induced in Oklahoma because of an increase in disposal well operations and, indeed, research is going on now to investigate this possibility,» McGarr says.

Scientists could use nano «cages» to increase the heat - storing efficiency of shallow, low - temperature geothermal wells, thereby decreasing the need for deeper, more earthquake - prone ones

So far in 2014, Oklahoma has seen more earthquakes than California — and seismologists are increasingly blaming them on the injection of wastewater from oil and gas operations.

«Buildings with «rocking» technology would be more earthquake - resilient.»

«It's not just that more earthquakes are happening — more earthquakes are happening preferentially near injection wells,» Weingarten says.

Are we having more earthquakes than before?

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center detects dozens or more earthquakes every month.

As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past because of the vast improvement in instrumentation (not because the number of earthquakes has increased).

«This is an important finding because some previously held theories propose that there is a relationship between the largest magnitude of the earthquake and the injected volume, but what we have found is that the maximum magnitude isn't what's being controlled by the volume, it's the earthquake rate,» says Atkinson, who notes that these two theories are slightly related because the more earthquakes that are induced provide more opportunities for a larger one to occur.

Older homes can be retrofitted with materials that make them more earthquake and weather resistant.

This method of masonry is more earthquake - resistant than using mortar, the method currently employed by those «restoring» Machu Picchu.

There is even some reason to think that traditional building practice in many parts of the world (e.g. northeastern India) was more earthquake - resistant in the past than today, particularly for «low - rise» structures.

Now scientists warn that more earthquakes can be expected in this seismically active region, and that the government's large dams plans may contribute to these disasters.

Like geothermal, wind may also provide a more earthquake - resistant form of energy production for Japan.

In a little - heeded warning issued at a 2009 conference on the subject, experts outlined a range of mechanisms by which climate change could already be causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity, albeit of a scale and nature quite different from Friday's tragedy.

Oklahoma has more earthquakes than California, and a few bad fracking reinjection wells may be to blame

And that's without figuring in optional coverage such as Earthquake Insurance that most Alaskans ought to consider (after all, Alaska does experiences more earthquakes - 1,000 a month on average - than anywhere else in the United States).

It is commonly known that California residents tend to experience more earthquakes than people in any other area of the country, however the west coast is not exclusively the only area in the United States that can expect to get hit by earthquakes.