Sentences with phrase «powerful earthquakes not»

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.

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In the Book of Kings the Lord appeared to the prophet Elijah not in «the great and powerful wind that tore the mountains apart and shattered the rock,» not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in «a gentle whisper.»

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.

But by measuring rotation as well as translation, seismologists can get not only the displacement of earthquake waves but also their velocities, which are a powerful probe of subsurface structure.

Although these sudden forming clouds are caused by powerful transient energy in the crust — and the transient energy is a true genesis process to earthquakes, not all transient series generate the «traditional earthquake».

People's attention is focused on the San Andreas fault; they forget the New Madrid fault system, with its epicenter not far south of St. Louis, that ripped loose in the early 1800s and caused the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America.