Sentences with phrase «near the epicenter of»

This project is one of several synagogues being excavated near the epicenter of Jesus» ministry, providing new insights into worship communities in the centuries after Jesus.

The reserve — home of the panda breeding program — is located near the epicenter of the quake in Wenchuan County.

The worst damage reported was to the University of Concepción, near the epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude quake.

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators found that when stress exerted on Earth's crust was high, the levels of a helium isotope, helium - 4, released in the groundwater was also high at sites near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, a magnitude 7.3 quake in southwestern Japan, which caused 50 fatalities and serious damage.

Japanese researchers have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress exerted on inner rock layers of Earth, found at locations near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake.

The tough reality in most instances is that it's nearly impossible to spread the word to communities most in harm's way — those nearest the epicenter of such temblors — in time to make a big difference.

Not exact matches

Outside the village of Darbonne, Haiti, near the earthquake's epicenter, their small concrete - block tin - roof home, without running water or electricity, had collapsed.

The mayor of a small town near the epicenter says that while they haven't reported deaths, they're also without power and can't make any definitive determinations yet.

For the study, Shirzaei and co-authors William Ellsworth of Stanford University, Kristy Tiampo of the University of Colorado Boulder, Pablo González of the University of Liverpool (UK), and Michael Manga of UC Berkeley focused on four high - volume wells used for disposing wastewater near the epicenter for the Timpson, Texas, earthquake, the release said.

But by making quick computer analyses in seismographic stations near the epicenter, warnings can be relayed in seconds, allowing people to take safety precautions and critical infrastructure to be shut down, scientists reported this week at the fall conference of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.

The epicenter of the quake was in Wenchuan County in Sichuan near the famed Wolong Nature Reserve — home of the panda breeding program — but was felt as far away as Bangkok, Thailand.

«The community of Jene - Wonde in Grand Cape Mount County near the border with Sierra Leone has become a new epicenter for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which is also hitting Sierra Leone and Guinea.»

The 1812 earthquake, which destroyed much of the Santa Barbara Mission, had its epicenter near Santa Rosa Island.

But the timing of their move would prove to be serendipitous in terms of changes on the near horizon, as both artists grew with a new wave of galleries and the shifting epicenter of a burgeoning scene.

The epicenter of the quake occurred in Ossipee, near the mountain range.