Sentences with phrase «of earthquake hazard»

This is a small but real start on the more than 1,000 school buildings that are candidates for retrofits, and tangible testimony to the efforts of earthquake hazard engineer Yumei Wang and state Sen. Peter Courtney over many years.

Beneath northwestern California, northwestern Oregon and southwestern British Columbia the probability of a similar sized earthquake over 50 years is somewhat lower, but still a major component of the earthquake hazard in each area.

Despite the increasing seismicity in the central and eastern US, induced earthquakes are presently excluded from USGS estimates of earthquake hazard.

The study of new linkages between the two types of seismic activity, published in Nature Geoscience on Sept. 11, may help promote better understanding of earthquake hazard posed by subduction zones, a type of fault responsible for some of the world's most powerful earthquakes.

«Everything has been designed and assessed in terms of earthquake hazard in the past, considering the natural hazard,» she said.

Our scientific contribution can help the society to develop a more complete view of earthquake hazard in one of the most densely populated seismic zones of the world and ultimately take action accordingly.»

On the first global map of earthquake hazards, pink and red signal a more than 10 % chance of ground accelerations exceeding 25 % of the force of gravity within the next 50 years — high enough to cause widespread damage to buildings.

... There was a need to have someone in Haiti who would be able to provide scientific advice while interacting with the U.N. and its agencies as well as the Haitian government, someone with enough understanding of the politics of Haiti and the institutional intricacies of Haiti who also had a strong scientific understanding of the earthquake hazards.

Earthquakes cause a variety of earthquake hazards, including ground shaking, landslides, liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking) and tsunami.

There has been a complete breakdown in effectively utilizing published geology with practical assessments of earthquake hazards that some seismologists and earthquake engineers routinely overlook.

Not exact matches

Some areas will require additional coverage for floods, earthquakes and other hazards, depending on the location of the home.

«Earthquake hazard is particularly high in the eastern and central U.S. because seismic waves travel so efficiently through the old, cold rocks in the middle of the plate, and that shaking carries very far,» says Blanpied.

Earlier studies had suggested that the Abu Dabbab earthquakes were caused by magma rising through the crust, but the new report «found that a volcanic origin of the seismicity is unlikely, and the area is not expected to be subjected to volcanic hazard,» said El Khrepy.

«In contrast to events like hurricanes or earthquakes, volcanic unrest can last for long periods of time, and that's one reason people stop paying attention to the hazards that are looming,» said volcanologist Greg Valentine, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of geology and director of the Center for GeoHazards Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

«It was the first time I think we'd ever issued an earthquake advisory east of the Rockies,» says Robert Williams, the USGS central and eastern U.S. coordinator for earthquake hazards.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

«It has been argued for decades that fault systems evolving over geological time may unify smaller fault segments, forming mature rupture zones with a potential for larger earthquake,» said Marco Bohnhoff, professor of geophysics at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, who sought to clarify the seismic hazard potential from the NAFZ.

«As we can learn better practices, we can help ensure that the hazards induced earthquakes pose can be reduced in other parts of the world as well,» Ellsworth said.

The new bull's - eyes on the map, regions such as central Oklahoma, have short - term hazards that are comparable to the those in traditional earthquake states, like California, says Mark Petersen, chief of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project in Golden, Colorado.

Their results imply that the plate collisions in the Alps are more ductile than those in the Himalaya, reducing the hazard of earthquakes.

The ACP has taken every appropriate measure regarding the waterway's expansion and the design of the new locks to safeguard the canal and its structures from any potential hazard related to these earthquakes.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

By combining classical earthquake statistics and newly developed numerical models, our contribution addresses a crucial aspect of the seismic hazard, providing an intuitive physical explanation for a global - scale problem.

These assessments are supposed to consider each plant's ability to withstand a full range of potential hazards — from earthquakes and floods to plane crashes and terrorist attacks.

«Understanding the physical parameters behind the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes is important to improve the seismic hazard assessment.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Although the hazard of induced earthquakes is uncertain, regulators in Oklahoma and elsewhere are starting to limit well operations and require more frequent reporting of well data.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

Based in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the Natural Hazards Research Centre specialises in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

«We demonstrated that consecutively triggered earthquakes can enhance the amount of energy produced by the ruptures, exceeding the design specifications expected for buildings in moderate seismic hazard zones,» said Tramelli, whose analysis suggests that the shaking from multiple magnitude 5.0 earthquakes would be significantly greater than from an individual magnitude 5.0 event.

«We need to better understand why induced seismicity happens, and how to minimize it, and our approach opens up new possibilities for understanding the risk in ways that can reduce earthquake hazard,» said Manoochehr Shirzaei, assistant professor in the department of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University.

Seismic hazards in the Southeast Asia region will probably come from an impending large earthquake in the Mentawai seismic gap in Sumatra, Indonesia — a current area of active monitoring and investigation.

It found that the capacity of clinical and non-clinical staff in hospitals and clinics to deal with incidents such as floods, earthquakes or other natural hazard is severely limited by a high workload and challenging targets which result in high levels of psychological stress.

Wedges of Water APART FROM CALLING attention to the phenomenon of catastrophic collapse of the flank of a volcano, the discovery of silent earthquakes is forcing scientists to reconsider various aspects of fault motion — including seismic hazard assessments.

«Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale: Researchers lead development of a workflow to accurately predict ground movement and its impact on structures.»

«Southern Italy: Earthquake hazard due to active plate boundary: International team of researchers publishes latest seafloor maps.»

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

The rate of such earthquakes is somewhat lower than in 2016, he said, but they continue to pose a hazard.

Translating those raw numbers into meaningful risk estimates is not straightforward, which is one of the reasons politicians find it easy to set aside asteroid funding in favor of more concrete hazards like earthquakes or terrorism.

On 23 April, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a report that, for the first time, accounts for these human - caused, or induced, earthquakes in a map of seismic hazards across the country.

This finding has applications to the seismic hazard of these regions, as it highlights the potential for future damaging earthquakes and tsunamis at active subduction margins with no measurable recent uplift.

Co-authors for the study include Michael L. Blanpied, associate coordinator of the USGS Earthquake Hazard program, and SMU seismologists Heather DeShon and Matthew Hornbach.

«We observed very compact sediments offshore of Washington and northern Oregon that could support earthquake rupture over a long distance and close to the trench, which increases both earthquake and tsunami hazards,» said lead author Shuoshuo Han, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG).

«This analysis of data from the new National Seismic Hazard Maps reveals that significantly more Americans are exposed to earthquake shaking, reflecting both the movement of the population to higher risk areas on the west coast and a change in hazard assessments,» said co-author Bill Leith, senior science advisor atHazard Maps reveals that significantly more Americans are exposed to earthquake shaking, reflecting both the movement of the population to higher risk areas on the west coast and a change in hazard assessments,» said co-author Bill Leith, senior science advisor athazard assessments,» said co-author Bill Leith, senior science advisor at USGS.

Boschi and Bertolaso also highlight that Italian officials need a better way of evaluating seismic hazards, better building regulations, and improved construction practice as an essential part of making earthquakes less dangerous in the future.

According to their data, Ellsworth said, the hazard «is certainly higher in those parts of the country where we see earthquakes happening every day» — like Oklahoma.

From June 2012 to May 2013 Wu and his colleagues tested a network of 400 Palert devices deployed throughout Taiwan, primarily at elementary schools to take advantage of existing power and Internet connections and where they can be used to educate students about earthquake hazard mitigation.

But Rice notes that such effects ought to be very brief and sensitive to the kind of rock they encounter, which may limit their force — «so we don't yet understand all their consequences for earthquake hazard.»

«This research opens new possibilities for the operation of wastewater disposal wells in ways that could reduce earthquake hazards,» Shirzaei said, in the release.

«It is not intended to give an overall distribution of all possible earthquakes and tsunami hazards in this region.