Sentences with phrase «of moderate earthquakes»

A new analysis led by seismologists at UC Santa Cruz, published August 9 in Science Advances, found that the probability of moderate earthquakes this year in the affected areas of Oklahoma is two times higher than was suggested by an earlier analysis.

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Many moderates spoke out in the immediate aftermath of the election result to praise Corbyn, with Lord Mandelson among those to say the Labour leader had managed to deliver a political earthquake.

A dome collapse doesn't appear imminent, but scientists are watching for moderate earthquakes that could disrupt the pile, says seismologist Steve Malone of the University of Washington in Seattle.

The magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake started innocuously as a moderate shock on a previously unknown thrust fault, so named because one side of the deep fault thrusts over the other.

«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.

While none of these small - to - moderate earthquakes has yet caused significant property damage or injury, they represent an increased probability of larger earthquakes.

Once these algorithms have each been applied in a process that takes just seconds, the data is passed on to another piece of software called the decision module, which synthesizes it in an instant and issues an alert to users, including the earthquake's magnitude, location and expected degree of shaking (weak, moderate, strong or very strong).

Across the U.S. heartland, an oil and gas boom has driven a surge of small to moderate earthquakes.

Perhaps it's because that even though such events might be relatively rare, we see the effect of even moderate earthquakes, flooding, etc in parts of the world where stringent standards and planning have not been in effect?

I'm on the road but can't avoid posting on the conviction of six scientists and a government functionary in Italy on criminal charges, with substantial prison sentences handed down, for statements made about earthquake risks not long before a moderate earthquake toppled buildings and killed 308 people in L'Aquila in 2009.

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

But now wars that excessive amounts of carbon dioxide is likely to give rise to moderate earthquakes.

Three of Canada's largest cities are located in regions of high to moderate risk of earthquake damage — Vancouver, Montreal, and Ottawa.

Although the chances of a serious earthquake occurring in New York are only considered moderate, it's not immune to earthquake risk, according to Ellen Melchionni, president of New York Insurance Association (NYIA).

There are 41 territories and states in the U.S. that fall under moderate to high risk of earthquakes.