Sentences with phrase «quake damages»

They are therefore not very useful at providing compensation for minor quake damages.

«The quake damaged Washington National Cathedral and reminded many Episcopalians of the quakes that struck the Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand during the last year.»

Most wineries not insured for quake losses: Napa and Sonoma winemakers on Monday assessed the toll of the American Canyon earthquake, which could saddle wineries with costly losses because most are not insured for quake damage...

Designing a building to have lateral resistance is helpful not only for preventing quake damage, but also from other lateral forces, such as wind.

The quake damaged municipal water systems, forcing people to store water in open containers outside their homes.

Between 1900 and 2014 quake damage has decreased as a percentage of total damaged buildings.

Earthquake Insurance pays for reasonable costs that you sustain from the loss of your residence in the event of quake damage.

~ ~ Update, 12:24 p.m. It will be interesting to check whether building collapses and other quake damage match the projections mapped in a 2010 paper in the Journal of Geographic Information Systems: «Urban Vulnerabilities in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Visualizations of Human / Hazard Interactions,» by Keshav Bhattarai and Dennis Conway.

Outside the immediate quake zone in areas that had no quake damage, many lived outside their homes for months as they no longer believed their apartment building were safe (which in all likelihood they weren't and for that matter probably still aren't).

Renters who want to insure their belongings against quake damage will need to scout around for a separate earthquake policy.

Standard home insurance or renters insurance won't protect against quake damage, but a separate earthquake policy can fill that gap.

Many property owners and potential investors, including real estate investment trusts, have contacted experts like Porter and companies that perform seismic risk analysis or provide software programs to assess the vulnerability of buildings to quake damage.

Not exact matches

Boudhanath Stupa, the largest stupa in Nepal and the holiest Tibetan Buddhist temple outside Tibet damaged in quake.

Iranian state television said the quake had caused heavy damage in some villages where houses were made of earthen bricks.

Despite this, investors were confident that the damage would be limited to this slight dip, as the quake caused little physical damage that would heavily impact recovery efforts.

Then a second quake struck Central Mexico, notably hitting Mexico City, causing millions of dollars in damage.

For example if your god actually existed wouldn't he protect his cathedral from damage by his earth quake?

On Monday, the Oklahoma government acknowledged the increasing danger of man - made earthquakes and said the state will take action to prepare for the quakes, which could do considerable damage since the state's building codes aren't as strict as those in states like California, where earthquakes have long been regular occurrences.

While it's not clear that there are any additional damages or injuries from this strong aftershock, experts say such strong quakes are huge threats to already - damaged structures...

Napa Quake Wine Damage Estimate Tops $ 80M The Aug. 24 south Napa earthquake caused more than $ 80 million in damages and losses to wineries in the county, according to a wine - focused bank estimate presented tuesday to Napa County officials...

The quake itself caused considerable damage to the Japanese islands near the center of the quake, but the tsunami's impact was catastrophic.

The NRC reportedly ranked Indian Point as the reactor with the highest risk of earthquake damage in the United States, even higher than the twin reactors in California's quake zone, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

The quake, estimated to have been at least magnitude 5.9, took no lives but damaged hundreds of buildings.

Magnitude 5 tremors, such as the quake that hit the town of Itacarambi in Minas Gerais in 2007, cause damage and occur once every 50 years, according to the researchers.

(Once the quake had occurred, statistical forecasting based on the size of the main shock did anticipate the possibility of its largest aftershock: a magnitude - 6.3 quake in February that heavily damaged older structures in Christchurch.)

There would be other surprises on little - known faults: the 1992 magnitude - 7.3 Landers quake off the southern San Andreas (1 killed, $ 92 million in damage); the 1994 magnitude - 6.7 Northridge earthquake on a previously unknown, buried fault (60 killed, $ 20 billion in damage); and the 1999 Hector Mine quake, magnitude 7.1, in the remoteness of the Mojave Desert.

A recent government study estimated that $ 955 billion worth of damage and 11,000 deaths could result from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake directly under the northern part of Tokyo Bay — a monster quake many seismologists believe is long overdue.

This substation and others were damaged in the 2010 quake, and the United States is investing in repairs to the transmission and distribution systems as well as the installation of new equipment and worker training.

After comparing central U.S. earthquakes with tremors in geologically similar parts of the world — and noting that induced quakes, so far, tended to rupture either smaller faults or smaller sections of faults than West Coast quakes — they settled on an upper limit of magnitude 6, which can damage even well - built structures.

NEW ZEALAND / / / EARTHQUAKE With an epicenter 6 miles from downtown, the Christchurch quake in February took 181 lives and caused $ 12 billion in damages despite having a magnitude of just 6.3.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the quake, which was initially measured at a magnitude of 8.0 but later downgraded.

The quakes have caused injuries, damaged homes and spawned class - action lawsuits.

Kathmandu's basin of soft sediments helped amplify low - frequency waves, as seen in its destructive effect on taller buildings, says Youssef Hashash, an earthquake engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and the lead author of a report published last week that documented the quake's damage to infrastructure.

In fact, this region represents the single greatest geophysical hazard to the continental United States; quakes centered here could register as hundreds of times more damaging than even a big temblor on the San Andreas Fault.

The big question is how much damage a quake of that size could do to Bangladesh, which sits atop a layer of sediment about 12 miles thick.

As a result, the cost of damage from the Northridge quake, which killed 60 people, is expected to be double early estimates, rising to more than $ 20 billion.

Most cause no serious damage, but a 5.9 magnitude quake near Athens in 1999 killed 143 people.

The quake also shook items off tables, rattled chandeliers and resulted in scattered damage to cars and property, including setting off a rockslide in the Orange County city of Brea that flipped a car on its roof.

Almost all of the damage caused by the quake was done by the tsunami, he points out.

But major earthquakes such as the Mw 7.9 2008 Chengdu quake in China and New Zealand's 2011 Mw 6.3 quake have shown that large earthquakes do occur and can cause significant infrastructure damage and loss of life.

The type of damage sustained by temples clustered around two towns in the region — Chamba and Bharmour — suggests that the Chamba temples may have been affected by the 1555 earthquake, while the Bharmour temples were damaged by the 1905 quake, the seismologists conclude.

The worries are a stronger quake than that could cause even more damage where many structures are built to withstand tornado winds but do not have specialized protection against strong seismic activity.

Dave Herbert of Midwest City said as long as there is fracking, he will be worried about a damaging quake.

An analysis of buildings tagged red and yellow by structural engineers after the August 2014 earthquake in Napa links pre-1950 buildings and the underlying sedimentary basin to the greatest shaking damage, according to one of six reports on the Napa quake published in the March / April issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

The researchers are trying to determine whether these additions, which do not support the frame of the building, can still help reduce damage during a quake.

Current quake designs rely on building deformation and damage to absorb the loads and prevent collapse during quakes.

«The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50 percent since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in central Oklahoma,» the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said earlier this week.

Police said there were no immediate reports of damage, but the quake was felt throughout several coastal communities.

As detailed in an accompanying guide, NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Data Repository: The Chile Earthquake Database — Ground Motion and Building Performance Data from the 2010 Chile Earthquake — User Manual (NIST GCR 15 - 1008), the new collection contains tabular data on ground motion, damage and structural properties, as well as nearly 25,000 photographs and drawings, for 273 buildings and structures impacted by the 2010 Maule, Chile, quake, and for comparison, their response to the 1985 quake centered offshore of Valparaíso, Chile, 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north.

One reason the Tuesday quake, which subjected some three million people to «severe shaking,» was so damaging is that it occurred at a relatively shallow depth, the fault having ruptured about 10 kilometers below the surface, Blanpied noted.