Sentences with phrase «quake happens»

Each time a quake happens on Mars, it will give InSight a «snapshot» of the planet's interior.

«If it's been a long time since a large earthquake, then, even after another quake happens, the fault's «memory» sometimes isn't wiped out, so there's still a good chance of having another,» said Seth Stein, the study's senior author and the William Deering Professor of Geological Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Then, just two hours later, a 6.1 - magnitude quake happened not too far from the same area.

Scientists such as Keranen and Mark Zoback, a geophysicist at Stanford, are producing even more detailed analyses of why quakes happen so frequently in some places but less — or not at all — in others.

The L'Aquila quake happened smack in the middle of Italy's highest seismic risk region, where the Apennine mountains are pulling themselves apart.

Finally, Satake's written records of a tsunami hitting villages all along eastern Japan nailed the date: Cascadia's last monster quake happened on January 26, 1700, at 9 p.m..

Some theoretical research suggested that at the pressures and temperatures found in the depths where this quake happened, ruptures could only occur within zones about 6 miles (10 km) thick, said study lead author Shengji Wei, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

The quake happened along a seam in the planet's surface where the Pacific Ocean floor is diving beneath the tectonic plate carrying northern Japan (see «Collision zone»).

The 27 February quake happened on a section of the fault between the site of the magnitude - 9.5 quake and a magnitude - 7.8 quake that occurred in 1985.

As the first analyses of what may well become the best studied earthquake in history start to filter through, there is already talk of rewriting the rule book on how «megathrust» quakes happen.

When the Chile quake happened, I thought perhaps serious glacier melt in the region may have contributed somewhat to the quake's intensity, and perhaps the same might be for Himalayan quakes.

I think not: massive quakes happen when tectonic plates get stuck, build elastic energy, and then release that stored energy suddenly.

IDEAS In the recent history, there may be only one earth quake happened in China that is dreadful enough to campare to this one.

Massive quakes happen when there are conflicts in society.

This study merely clarifies the chances of the quake happening within the lifetimes of residents there.

Not exact matches

Look what happened to the last Labour MP who filled those posts, and quake in your boots!

He pointed to induced quakes of magnitude 4 or larger in the past year in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, but said much of this happened too late for the research council to include in its study.»

While some seismologists had suspected such a quake could happen, physical evidence of their power had been lacking.

«Even though a very large quake has already happened this year, the hazard has not vanished,» says Gavin Hayes of the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado.

Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, studied 1126 quakes that happened along the Sumatran fault, where the Eurasian plate slides below the Indo - Australian plate, between 1976 and 2008.

Sucking up water for decades would have unloaded stresses within the ground and hastened a quake that was likely to happen anyway, says Pablo González, a geologist at the University of Western Ontario in London...

Instead, they alert people that a quake has already happened, giving them precious seconds — perhaps a minute or two — to prepare for imminent ground shaking.

He cites doublets — pairs of comparably large quakes that happen on the same or neighbouring faults within months of each other.

But just as this quake was waiting to happen since 2010, other parts of the Chilean fault are expected to go soon too.

Yet, this model of the quake does not match up well with the information from the ocean floor sensors — incorporating that data into future computer simulations should give a better picture of what actually happened during the massive tectonic event.

Here, we summarise what has happened since the quake at each of the six reactors of Fukushima Daiichi.

The 4,312 landslides that happened within six weeks after the quake were far fewer than occurred after similar - magnitude quakes in other mountainous areas.

Their mission: to understand exactly what happened to make this quake so destructive.

Several months after we return home, another team will report in the journal Nature that these twice - daily ice quakes measure a staggering magnitude 7 — strong enough to topple cities and kill thousands if they were to happen in a populated area.

But the Pisagua quake shows that this does not always happen, says Susan Beck, a seismologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

IPOC has added instruments to capture aftershocks from the 1 April quake and whatever might happen next.

Reid said he fears what will happen if a larger quake strikes.

The last great quake in the region happened in 1700.

At the start, he's smart enough to forecast the Hoover Dam quake about eight seconds before it happens.

iQuakeLite displays the latest quakes using heat map graphics showing you instantly where, how big and when an event happened.

... despite being 45 km south of the city the quake awoke us, scared and unsure what had happened we quickly realised we'd experienced our first earthquake, we can now conclude our tent is quake proof.

But thats exactly what happens every time I mention enjoying Quake 4.

Happening this year at QuakeCon, the Quake Championships will occur on...

In discussing this article last night with Adrian, American, Shawn and others, and reviewing my own complete archive and design notes, Quake didn't happen by accident.

Willits said his biggest worry with unleashing Quake Champions to pro gamers was that everyone would play as the same champion, but that hasn't happened.

When I told them that this may not be the case under the design conditions of earth quakes or floods, the response was: «If that happens, people will have other things on their minds».

These things would not happen if the quakes were spread over 5,000 years.»

As I, in a previous comment # 29 when the subject was: Grief, and Rising Anger, Over Fallen Schools May 16, expressed my experience with State building officials that residential foundations were not even meeting building codes, with possible consequences in case of earth quakes, the response was that when that happened people would have other thing on there mind.

I asked, «How many of these are seen as «anyway» quakes that would otherwise have happened but scattered over many years, if not decades or centuries (I'm not saying this is good, just wondering)?»

Are the quakes ones that would happen anyway, perhaps even larger, in the future?

«I also know that there is no evidence to suggest that these quakes «are happening far faster than ever anticipated» [as Corell claimed,»] wrote Rial in a September 13, 2007 letter.

«I also know that there is no evidence to suggest that these quakes «are happening far faster than ever anticipated» [as Corell claimed,»]

And whan the quakes do happen, they cause massive damage (likely in human lives as well).

But quakes do happen in other parts of the U.S., such as the earthquake centered in Virginia that damaged the Washington Monument in 2011, and another that same year in Oklahoma, which was the state's largest earthquake in modern times.

Although quakes can happen in all 50 states, some places are more prone to them, and in those cases earthquake insurance becomes a more important purchase.