Sentences with phrase «powerful earthquake in»

In the wake of my coverage of the hundreds of building collapses triggered by the powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey last weekend, Barry Welliver, a structural engineer based in Utah, sent a cogent amplification on ways to limit structure collapses in earthquake zones.

The powerful earthquake in central Italy is a reminder that we're floating on dynamic plates of earth.

On 26 December 2004, the most powerful earthquake in decades caused a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

The tsunami's waves hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, on March 11, 2011.

JAPAN and Ecuador were both hit by powerful earthquakes in the last week.

Find out about the most powerful earthquakes in the world.

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

Not exact matches

That earthquake, which occurred one month prior to the one in Chile, was about five hundred times less powerful, but resulted in an estimated 230,000 casualties, compared to Chile's 500 casualties.

The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the powerful earthquake that devastated Katmandu in 1934.

Earthquakes have destroyed churches in central Italy, just two months after a powerful earthquake killed... More

Nepal received more than $ 4.4 billion in foreign aid after an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster killed more than 9,000 people in April.

First: In answer to Christians saying natural disasters are somehow conveying god's wants / displeasure So an all powerful, all knowing, all loving god sends earthquakes, tornadoes, floods etc. to show his displeasure.

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Delegates on April 13 voted unanimously to send donations to aid relief efforts in Japan following the powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11 and the nuclear damage that followed.

At 10 a.m., Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and members of the Ecuadorian community will host a «Day of Solidarity» in the wake of the powerful earthquake that recently devastated Ecuador, Bronx County Building steps, 851 Grand Concourse at East 161st Street, the Bronx.

They are, after all, situated in a densely populated area — 20 million people live within a 50 - mile radius — which means that, in the unlikely event of a terrorist attack or a powerful earthquake or some other catastrophic failure, we'll all turn into radioactive zombies.

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.

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And although the biggest earthquake from wastewater injection was a 5.6 on the Richter scale, near Oklahoma City in 2011, scientists think that temblors as powerful as 7.0 — enough to cause fatalities and damage buildings across a wide area — are possible, though unlikely.

Nor did the modeling analyze what would happen if a powerful earthquake immediately destroyed safety equipment or ripped a hole in the structure containing the reactor itself.

The event elicited the following post on Twitter 16 minutes later from New Age lifemeister Deepak Chopra: «Had a powerful meditation just now — caused an earthquake in Southern California.»

Damasio's colleague Dan Tranel did experiments in which people were shown a series of emotionally powerful images — towns destroyed by earthquakes, people drowning in floods — and monitored their body's autonomic response, which is partially regulated by the amygdala.

The evidence amassed since then suggests that in fact, Cascadia has generated powerful earthquakes not just once or twice, but over and over again throughout geologic time.

They were hit by an earthquake roughly 25 times more powerful than experts thought possible in that part of the country.

A powerful earthquake has caused thousands of people in Chile and Peru to be evacuated, and sent a tsunami tumbling towards the coasts of Hawaii, New Zealand and Japan.

The powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile overnight was partly a consequence of a massive nearby quake in 2010.

In 1755, long before global seismograph networks or tsunami warning systems, a powerful earthquake hit Portugal, devastating the cosmopolitan city but also inspiring a new, scientific approach to understanding Earth's shudders.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

A powerful magnitude - 7.8 earthquake on a little studied fault caused major infrastructure damage in New Zealand on 14 November.

However, the commission points out that some historical earthquakes in central Italy did go on to generate powerful aftershocks.

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.

One of the primary questions they hope to answer is whether the pressures and temperatures experienced at depth here lead to the unusual properties of this subduction zone fault, and if that in turn leads to larger and more powerful earthquakes.

After investigating seismic waves observed during the earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk, the researchers found the initial quake triggered four other powerful shocks, one of magnitude 7.8, one of magnitude 8.0 and two of magnitude 7.9.

An investigation of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded deep within the Earth suggests deep quakes may be better at dissipating pent - up energy than similar quakes near the surface, researchers say in a new study.

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.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

More powerful earthquakes are indeed likely to strike the Himalayas in coming decades, seismology models show.

Like the aftershocks of an earthquake, violent x-ray flares have been discovered in the aftermath of gamma - ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe.

Japan and Europe already have such warning systems, which have proved useful in preventing fires, one of the major secondary impacts of powerful earthquakes.

Few experts had thought that the seismic zone near Sendai, Japan, was capable of producing earthquakes anywhere near as powerful as the magnitude - 9.0 shock on 11 March, the largest on record in Japan.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

Records of past earthquakes on the same fault — including a powerful one (possibly as strong as magnitude 8.4) that shook Kathmandu in 1934 — indicate that ruptures have previously reached the surface.

Hurricane Irene, a powerful storm that ran north along the US East Coast four days after a magnitude - 5.8 earthquake rattled Virginia in 2011, may have triggered some of that earthquake's aftershocks, scientists reported today at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 has struck northern Afghanistan, with reports of tremors being felt in India and Pakistan.

One month after a powerful earthquake hit Papua New Guinea, the United Nations warns that «children's lives are in danger» as access to the affected remote and isolated villages across vast and rugged terrain remains a huge challenge.

Much of the death and damage in Haiti was the result of infrastructure that was too weak to withstand such a powerful earthquake.

(CNN) Rescuers searched for survivors through the night after Tuesday's powerful earthquake shook Mexico City and surrounding states, killing Katherine Parr was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and his wife Maud Green, both of whom were at the court of Henry VIII in his early reign.

This bundle includes 18 ready - to - use Tsunami worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about a Tsunami which is a series of fast moving waves in the ocean caused by powerful earthquakes or volcanic eruptions

It's a question worth asking given the images of devastating hurricanes, wildfires and a powerful earthquake that have dominated the news in recent weeks.