Sentences with phrase «percent chance of occurring»

I'd also give the following scenario about a 25 percent chance of occurring: 99L continues to fizzle into oblivion.

[18] There has also been a 40 percent increase in number of five - year rain events, extreme events that have only a 20 percent chance of occurring in any given year.

A «very likely» outcome, for example, is one that has a greater than 90 percent chance of occurring.

Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.»

Unless it won't be announced at all, which iLounge says has a 20 percent chance of occurring.

«Currently, engineers are designing low - rise structures for an earthquake that has a 10 percent chance of occurring in a 50 - year - lifetime,» he said.

«But what about an event that has a 50 percent chance of occurring?»

Thus, a 50 - year event would have a 2 percent chance of occurring each year, a 10 - year event would have a 10 percent chance, and so on.

Not exact matches

One study found that «growth spurts usually occurred within two days of the increased sleep» period and that each hour of additional sleep meant a 20 percent increase in the chance that it was due to a growth spurt.

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

«We correctly forecast the peak in dengue incidence to occur three months earlier than expected in March 2016, with a 90 percent chance of exceeding the mean dengue incidence for the previous five years,» said Lowe, Stewart Ibarra's colleague who is the lead author of an article on the study that appeared in the July 2017 issue of Lancet Planetary Health.

He says that the chance of another powerful tremor occurring in the area close to the epicenter of a major earthquake gets «up to the order of some percent» over the following week, but notes that the size of the area in question is difficult to define accurately.

The weather forecast for Day 4 called for a 30 to 40 percent chance of rain which did occur.

Even if this occurs, there is no guarantee that you will see an affected dog from such a mating, as there is only a twenty - five percent chance of inheriting the defective gene from both parents.

«For a 500 - year flood, there is a 0.2 percent chance of having a flood of that magnitude occurring» in any given year, according to the National Weather Service.

Trial experts testified that Natasha had about a five percent chance of survival by the time she was diagnosed, and that her chances would have been as high as fifty percent had diagnosis occurred a year earlier.