Sentences with phrase «more powerful earthquakes»

More powerful earthquakes are indeed likely to strike the Himalayas in coming decades, seismology models show.

One of the primary questions they hope to answer is whether the pressures and temperatures experienced at depth here lead to the unusual properties of this subduction zone fault, and if that in turn leads to larger and more powerful earthquakes.

Not exact matches

Earthquakes have destroyed churches in central Italy, just two months after a powerful earthquake killed... More

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike Mexico has killed at least 32 people, toppling houses and businesses and sending panicked people into the streets more than 650 miles away.

Editor's note: As aid organizations struggle to reach Nepal residents reeling from an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster, evangelical groups including World Vision, Convoy of Hope, and Samaritan's Purse are racing to help survivors as aftershocks continue.

Nepal received more than $ 4.4 billion in foreign aid after an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster killed more than 9,000 people in April.

The epicentre of the magnitude 7.3 quake was to the east of the more powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April that killed more than 8000 people.

They were hit by an earthquake roughly 25 times more powerful than experts thought possible in that part of the country.

The team also analyzed how deep the earthquakes occur underground and concluded that as quakes occur deeper, the rocks become stronger and the stress drop, or force behind the earthquakes, becomes more powerful.

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In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

You arrive at the Tiers to declare an Edict, a powerful conditional spell that requires a conduit such as yourself, with effects ranging from massive earthquakes, permanent nightfall, erupting volcanoes or in the case of the Edict you just unknowingly declared: killing everyone in the Tiers unless Kyros's army takes the rebel stronghold within a little more than a week's time.

«Our experiments show that glacial earthquakes can generate far more powerful tsunamis than undersea earthquakes with similar magnitude,» said Song.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the restart of two idle nuclear reactors Saturday amid widespread public opposition, more than a year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai - ichi Power Plant, and halted all 50 reactors in Japan...

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