Sentences with phrase «quake hits»

But occasionally, when a big quake hits, the damage can be severe.

No one can be sure when the next big quake will occur, but with New York earthquake insurance, you can protect your investments before a quake hits.

At the top of this post you can click on a short video I shot of action around Istanbul to cut risks before the quake hits.

In LA, Ray's almost - degree - nisi wife Emma (Carla Gugino) is having lunch at a high - storey hotel when the quake hits.

The 6.3 magnitude quake hit at lunchtime, when the city was at its busiest, and was shallow enough to cause severe devastation.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami).

The 2011 quake hit 373 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.

It was a similar story in 2007, when the Kashiwazaki - Kariwa plant in western Japan was rocked by a magnitude - 6.6 quake, and last year, when a magnitude - 5.8 quake hit less than 20 kilometres from the North Anna plant in Virginia.

It covered all the major details — when the quake hit, its magnitude and how far it spread.

Three weeks later a huge quake hit nearby Lima and a tsunami washed 5 kilometres inland.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit the city, killing 309 people.

Six seismologists and a public official in Italy were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in 2012 after underestimating earthquake risk before a magnitude 6.3 quake hit the city of L'Aquila in April 2009.

Sichuan province is prone to earthquakes, including the devastating Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008 when a 7.9 magnitude quake hit the area, killing over 70,000 people.

That April 1 quake, which struck offshore near the village of Pisagua, was the largest in Chile since a magnitude - 8.8 quake hit farther south in 2010.

In May 2012, a 4.8 magnitude quake hit Timpson — the largest ever monitored in the region.

On March 11, a powerful, magnitude 9.0 quake hit northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10 - meter - high waves that reached the U.S. west coast.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude - 6.3 quake hit, killing 309 people.

County officials had taken action several days before the quake hit.

One of the Americans who was there when the quake hit was Dan Woolley, a director of Compassion International.

A series of deadly quakes hit western China Wednesday morning, killing hundreds and injuring thousands.

Can't recall the numbers, but they were well over their design goal for withstanding an earthquake of magnitude «n» when the quakes hit, and they stood up fine (to the earthquakes, not the tsunami, of course).

Three of Fukushima Daiichi's six Boiling Water reactors, and the four reactors nearby at Daini 200 miles or so north of Tokyo, were evidently in operation when the quake hit, at which point, WNN reported, they shut down automatically and commenced removal of residual heat with the help of emergency diesel generators.

Just know these two things: California residents buy more earthquake insurance than any other states; and the U.S. Geological Survey says that the likelihood of a 6.7 - magnitude quake hitting the Bay Area by 2039 is 63 %.

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

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

In studying the past few devastating quakes, such as the 2011 9.0 that hit Japan twice...

The Quakes coach is likely to send out the same starting eleven against Sporting KC, and he likes what they've shown him as they get ready to hit the road.

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.

The system should be especially good at predicting aftershocks, such as the magnitude - 4.3 tremor that hit the central Italian quake zone on Thursday.

A year later, a comparable temblor — the 1989 Loma Prieta quake — hit the San Francisco Bay area.

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..

Two other segments of the Ring of Fire ruptured this way — Chile in 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest quake ever recorded on Earth, and Alaska's horrible Good Friday earthquake of 1964, at 9.2 the strongest jolt ever to hit the continent of North America.

As a result, the quake, which was the most powerful ever recorded to hit Japan, may have occurred earlier than it might have otherwise, said Andreas Mavrommatis, a graduate student in Stanford's School of Earth Sciences.

Stefano Lorito of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome and colleagues assessed the amount of land movement during the magnitude 8.8 quake that hit Chile in February 2010, claiming over 500 lives.

In California, such a network might be able to identify intense quakes and give surrounding areas a few seconds of warning, allowing people to seek cover before the seismic waves hit.

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

The finding suggests powerful earthquakes — like the one that has just hit Sumatra — may trigger further quakes worldwide.

More than 87,000 people were killed or went missing as a result of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China's Sichuan province, the largest quake to hit China since 1950.

A major quake swarm has hit Yellowstone National Park - but it's unlikely to be a sign of an impending volcanic eruption, according to geologists

A series of aftershocks followed the quake, the strongest a magnitude 5.9, hit the region shortly afterwards, the USGS said.

Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday.

Two major nuclear power plants are at the heart of the crisis, both of which were hit by the quake and the tsunami.

The National Earthquake Information Center, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), said it was the strongest of 12 quakes to hit the region during a five - hour period.

In November 2016, the second largest quake ever recorded in New Zealand — the 7.8 magnitude Kaik?ura quake — hit the country's South Island.

More than 20,000 people died, most as a result of the tsunami that hit the coastline a half - hour after the quake.

It takes 3 hours for surface seismic waves to circle the earth: coming from Japan, the high intensity waves hit USArray from the west an hour after the quake.

Coming from the opposite direction, a second set of waves from the east hit the array 2 hours after the quake.

Stein and his colleagues looked at the seismic records and more than 2,000 years of written records in northern China and found that, during that timeframe, no magnitude - 7 or greater quake ever hit at the same place on a fault more than once.

Oki says the team might find telltale signs of higher waves as it extends its survey southward into more hard - hit areas closer to the epicenter of the quake.