Sentences with phrase «of magnitude of the earthquake»

«We tested each mechanism,» Tingay says, «and we show that the order of magnitude of the earthquake was too small to cause it.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the off the coast of Indonesia.

But between 2009 and 2013 that number rose nearly 100 earthquakes per year of the same magnitude.

The region averaged 21 earthquakes of magnitude - 3 and larger each year from 1973 to 2008.

The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the earthquakes in relation to each other.

At least 22 earthquakes, registering at magnitude - 2.5 or more, were reported across the state over a 13 - hour period Wednesday night into Thursday morning, most of which took place in Woods County, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Geologists said before 2009, the state historically averaged 1.5 earthquakes of magnitude - 3 or greater each year, and is now experiencing 2.5 earthquakes of the same magnitudes each day.

An apocalyptically - worded story in the latest issue of the New Yorker detailed the devastation that might result from a high - magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that runs from Cape Mendocino, Calif., to Vancouver Island, Canada.

In fact, most areas in the affected zone would be able to ride out a high - magnitude earthquake and would be out of the way of the tsunami expected to follow, according to Bill Steele, director of outreach and communications for the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

NBC's Lucy Kafanov reports a major 6.2 - magnitude earthquake killed dozens of people in central Italy

«When people think of an earthquake of that magnitude, they think of the devastation in Haiti,» says Nicolo Gligo, executive director for the United States of the CORFO.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 shook buildings in Tokyo on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.

Less than 24 - hours after a 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, 6.1 - magnitude tremors rocked the coast of Japan Wednesday.

In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the small country of Ecuador on April 16, 2016.

A 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit the southern state of Puebla — causing the currency to drop to

A 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit the southern state of Puebla — causing the currency to drop to 17.761 pesos per US dollar.

By: Henry Lazenby 24th April 2018 Canadian mining major Barrick Gold's Porgera Joint Venture mine, in Papua New Guinea, is still operating at only 25 % of capacity following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck the island on February 26, the company announced on Monday in its first - quarter earnings release.

Today marks the first anniversary 7.0 - magnitude earthquake that devastated the country of Haiti.

Most live in flimsy, breakable homes, homes incapable of withstanding an earthquake of this magnitude.

In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

CT previously reported how dozens of Nepali Christians died when April's 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on a Saturday, the day weekly church services are observed.

«I think that if the secretary of defense and President Obama are coming, that means it's safe to be here,» cathedral spokesman Richard Weinberg told members of the media during a press tour of the cathedral's nave, the first since the 5.8 magnitude earthquake on August 23.

On December 26, 2004, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 rocked Southeast Asia.

When the now - infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire...

When the now - infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire country's transportation system, government, and economy, ground to a halt.

I saw the nauseating wealth of Mumbai's upper class, experienced the destitution that slept in the louse - ridden corridors of an Indian orphanage, and got rocked by a magnitude - 6.9 earthquake.

A tsunami warning was issued for the entire Indian Ocean and individual countries — including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India — after a massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.

Indian Point has been designed to withstand an earthquake 100 times the magnitude of the strongest earthquake ever recorded in this area.

A cluster of low - magnitude earthquakes in the New York region has piqued the interest of residents, while some geologists predict the increase in temblors will continue and a large - scale one could be coming.

Seismic activity was detected by several monitoring agencies at 02:57 GMT at North Korea's nuclear test site, with the US Geological Survey recording a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9.

«The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still relying on 40 - year - old data that suggests that the risk of seismic activity is somewhere between a 1.0 magnitude earthquake and a 3.0.»

«Two fault lines intersect about a mile north of Indian Point and a Columbia University study tells us a 7.0 magnitude earthquake is quite possible,» Gally said.

Large areas of both North and South Islands have felt earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 within the past 200 years.

«An earthquake of this magnitude does a good job of releasing stress,» says Gary Gibson, a seismologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Magnitude isn't the only demonstration of an earthquake's power.

Like all earthquake early warning systems, SASMEX uses algorithms to process incoming seismic waves from earthquakes to determine the magnitude of the earthquake.

This week the New Zealand city of Christchurch felt the force of a 6.3 - magnitude earthquake.

The moment magnitude (Mw) = 9.0 2011 Tohoku - Oki mega-thrust earthquake occurred off the coast of northeastern Japan.

Four papers in this issue — by Sato et al. on page 1395 (1), Simons et al. on page 1421 (2), Ide et al. on page 1426 (3), and Vigny et al. on page 1417 (4)-- report on both of these magnitude 9 (M9) earthquakes, illustrating the use of networks of Global Positioning System (GPS) detectors to reveal how the Earth's surface deformed during and after the events.

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.

Drawing on a centuries - long history of quakes of magnitude 7 to 8 rupturing various parts of the fault, members of the official Earthquake Research Committee had divided the offshore fault into six segments, each roughly 150 kilometers long, that they expected to rupture again.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake also hit the north - west coast of Ecuador at 7 pm local time on the Saturday (pictured), killing at least 272 people and injuring another 2500.

Earthquake swarms are frequent in this area of the northern Red Sea near Abu Dabbab, but most of the earthquakes are weak, ranging in magnitude from 0.3 to 3.5.

The 11 March 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki megathrust earthquake just off the Eastern coast of Japan was one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history.

Japan's scientific community has been quietly taking stock of how extensively the magnitude - 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 March damaged facilities and experiments.

The 11 March 2011 magnitude - 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan was one of the largest recorded earthquakes in history.

There would be other surprises on little - known faults: the 1992 magnitude - 7.3 Landers quake off the southern San Andreas (1 killed, $ 92 million in damage); the 1994 magnitude - 6.7 Northridge earthquake on a previously unknown, buried fault (60 killed, $ 20 billion in damage); and the 1999 Hector Mine quake, magnitude 7.1, in the remoteness of the Mojave Desert.