Sentences with phrase «of strong quakes»

But the Northwest is one of the most seismically active regions in the world and has a history of strong quakes.

For centuries, mysterious lights have popped up in the wake of strong quakes

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

Although measurements at UNAM suggest that this quake was only a third as strong as the one in 1985, Alcocer says it will generate massive amounts of valuable data.

Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.

In 1964 a region of this same tectonic clash, called the Alaska — Aleutian Subduction Zone, produced the magnitude 9.2 «Good Friday» earthquake, the second - strongest quake ever recorded.

Some researchers consider the Lushan quake to be a strong aftershock of the Wenchuan quake, while others see them as independent events.

U.S. Geological Survey seismologists subsequently found a strong link between the quakes and the refilling of the reservoir.

A series of aftershocks followed the quake, the strongest a magnitude 5.9, hit the region shortly afterwards, the USGS said.

The National Earthquake Information Center, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), said it was the strongest of 12 quakes to hit the region during a five - hour period.

Although it's impossible to pinpoint when such a quake might occur, Floyd says this one could be powerful — on the order of a magnitude 7 temblor, or stronger.

Since the main quake struck, hundreds of aftershocks have been registered, the strongest that of April 2 (CEST) of a magnitude of 7.6.

* That would buy more monitoring stations (each one costs $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 for a seismometer, GPS instrument and data logger); a more robust communications network to transmit signals; and rigorous stress testing to make sure the system could hold up during even the strongest of quakes.

«Our study also suggests that the northward traveling rupture during the Kaik?ura quake directed strong pulses of seismic energy towards the North Island, which also influenced the long - distance triggering of the slow slip events beneath the North Island,» said Yoshihiro Kaneko, a seismologist at GNS Science.

Because Tuesday's quake wasn't nearly that strong, it suggests that a portion of the gap remains locked.

More importantly, he notes, with data from the two sensors in Peru he and his colleagues were able to pinpoint the strongest of those pulses as originating within a few kilometers of the epicenters of subsequent quakes, they report in a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server.

Chile's approach shows that it is possible to build structures that can dramatically reduce the loss of life in a strong quake, but implementing such methods remains a challenge in much of the world.

In the winter of 1811 to 1812, a series of colossal quakes — by some estimates among the strongest ever seen in what is today the continental United States — exploded beneath what is now the American Midwest.

Vlad Manea says some of them may have been strong enough to release stored pressure and close the gap — which would make future quakes in the region less likely.

Most of Oklahoma's earthquakes are small, but MyShake users in the state, which number only about 200, easily detected the Sept. 3 magnitude 5.8 quake, the strongest ever to hit the state.

There's a murder at the island's newest eatery, the Orient Express, and a houseful of suspects at Bea Cartwright's B and B that would make any but the strongest of innkeepers quake in her shoes.

There have been several strong aftershocks and a warning of a ten - meter tsunami following the quake, which caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo.

Hopefully my books will create a much stronger tsunami of literary achievement than that quake did water.

Quake Live has seen a decline in popularity over the past few years due to the release and update of many of the other games on this list, but it still has a strong following and player base that should provide some fun for both novice and experienced multiplayer fps gamers.

Following an extended shift towards the «cinematic experience» - being melodrama and story - dependent progression - there's a strong lust for the glory days of first - person shooters, as seen with the resurgence of Shadow Warrior, Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake.

I have a feeling that as we get the strong motion records, we will see that the Haiti quake was much worse because of stronger ground motion where the people were and much weaker construction (i.e. no earthquake resistant design and generally poorer quality of construction and construction materials — no wood).

It captures the horror of death and destruction after the «quake yet revitalises the reader through its strong message about the capacity for love and tenderness.

It came little more than three months following the horrific 9.1 quake and tsunami of December 24, 2003, and stood as the second strongest quake of the new century until it was surpassed by the Chilean earthquake of February, 2010 (8.8) and, of course, the 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 of this year.