Sentences with phrase «quake last»

From Siquijor with the unforgettable 6.9 quake last February in Visayas, to her Bucas Grande, Tacloban, and Biliran visit, to Surigao del Sur's Tinuy - an Falls and Enchanted River, Davao and South Cotabato sojourns, to Bacolod, up to her frolicks outside the country in Myanmar and Kuala Lumpur.

Compact in size and simply installed, they are easily accommodated in a wide range of Bay Area residents were shaken awake by a magnitude quake last night.

Officials warned that more than 12 million people were at risk, including residents of Cebu City, which has a population of about 2.5 million, and areas still reeling from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2 - magnitude quake last month.

That slow slip now appears to have loaded the fault to the breaking point, triggering the devastating quake last March.

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.

So the scientific world quaked last August when Wilson renounced the theory that he had made famous.

The academic community quaked last August when Harvard confirmed that it had found Marc Hauser, a cognitive scientist at the university, «solely responsible» for eight cases of scientific misconduct.

That rate accelerated sharply in 2009, reaching more than such 650 quakes last year.

The quake lasts 10 seconds — 10 really, really long seconds.

Not exact matches

Yes, we are spared the pain of seeing our spiritual leaders portrayed as sweaty, quaking, self - righteous, pulpit - pounding televangelists, but on the other hand the last few years have shown that Hollywood has no problem seizing the headlines and showing priests as either pedophiles or at least questionable.

«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.»

Of the 5 most destructive quakes only 2 occurred in the last 30 years.

Last month, we watched helplessly as devastating quakes changed the lives of millions.

Year After Quake, Napa's Wine Industry Healthy: In the immediate aftermath of last August's earthquake in Napa, photographs quickly circulated of shattered wine racks, toppled barrels and what looked like an endless river of spilled red wine...

Hull were well worth their point at Stamford Bridge last Saturday and future opponents of the Blues won't be quaking in their boots after they took 75 minutes to find a breakthrough against Watford.

Some of us are confident of us making a league challenge, going so far as to say other teams are quaking in their boots because we signed Cech and our finish to last season, but as the transfer window stretches on it turns into anxious pleas, «why won't Wegner sign anyone».

If you go back to the start of last season, Wondolowski, bolstered by his MLS tying record of 27 goals in 2012 and his eight consecutive seasons scoring double digit goals, topped the Quakes goal efficiency list, but he's dropped to number three since then.

Tom Precious: «If officials in Albany the last several years have lost sleep over Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor's two latest political corruption convictions should have this town quaking.»

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

And the southern Santa Cruz Mountains segment, which last slipped in the 1906 San Francisco quake, was given a 30 % chance of failing again within 30 years, which it did in 1989.

Many geological atlases chart the world's major faults and pinpoint where big quakes have struck in the last century or longer.

Given that the last big quake was 312 years ago, one might argue that a very bad day on the Cascadia Subduction Zone is ominously overdue.

The quake rivaled those that have struck Indonesia in recent years, geologists reported last week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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..

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.

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

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.

Although seismic predictions work on geologic timescales and can miss big quakes by decades, one expert said last week that a temblor in Port - au - Prince was of greater concern than a San Andreas slip

That would be a big improvement over the warnings issued after last year's Tohoku quake, which Japanese officials initially put at magnitude 8.

Just last year a powerful quake struck further north near the border with Peru, killing six people.

The magnitude 8.2 earthquake might be part of a pattern of big quakes around the world over the last decade, says Thorne Lay of the University of California Santa Cruz.

Estimating magnitude for larger quakes also takes more time, because the rupture of the fault lasts perhaps several seconds longer — a significant chunk of time when it comes to EEW.

Satoko Oki at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute says there is some evidence that last week's quake and the ensuing aftershocks triggered two earthquakes to the west of Tokyo — one in Nagano prefecture on 12 March and one in Shizuoka prefecture on 15 March.

The recent spate of far - flung quakes is remarkably similar to a cluster that occurred in the middle of the last century, says Charles Bufe, a seismologist retired from the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado.

Temblors that size are rare indeed: only 7 quakes as large or larger than 8.8 — the magnitude of last February's Chilean event — have occurred since 1900.

«Those are enormous slips,» Wald says, running about two to three times the maximum slip reported for the magnitude - 8.8 Maule, Chile, quake of last year.

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.

But after last week's quake, it seems that those rules have not been followed.

(A team of researchers published the results of California's Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models test of quake forecasts last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.)

And with the last large earthquake occurring in 1700, scientists are expecting a large quake to occur in the future, although it's impossible to pinpoint the timing exactly.

There have also been well - documented cases of wastewater injection - driven quakes in Ohio, Utah, Colorado and British Columbia, all within the last year or so.

In fact, last year alone saw twice as many quakes as in previous years, with most of that increase coming during the summer months.

«If your thinking is based on the last few hundred years, and you haven't captured a representative time frame for that system, you're going to be surprised,» says Mark Simons, a geophysicist at Caltech who studied the dynamics of the quake.

Measurements made before and after the quake show subtle changes in the local gravity field, the European Space Agency said last week.

For example, aftershock sequences for quakes that occur at faults far from a tectonic plate boundary — such as the New Madrid Seismic Zone — often last much longer than those triggered by quakes near plate boundaries, says Seth Stein, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Earthquakes can genuinely be triggered by large scale melting, though; it seems that Norway had quakes up to magnitude 7 during the last deglaciation:

The last great quake in the region happened in 1700.

As we catch our breath in this transitory time, it is comforting to know that we are leaving the shifts and quakes of last year in the rearview mirror.

The knowledge that the book was originally being split into two films made me apprehensive, and the last minute decision to change it to three had me quaking in my boots.

LawBreakers is the latest twist in the hero shooter genre, which adds zero - gravity movement and elements from classic arena shooters like Quake and Unreal Tournament to the popular format pioneered by Team Fortress and supercharged in last year's Overwatch.