Sentences with phrase «quakes in»

The same fault line that causes quakes in California rests below Oregon.

Fortunately, quakes in this area tend to be low in magnitude and result in little damage.

The state registers earthquakes of significant magnitude more frequently than other states, with 8 of the 10 most expensive quakes in history recorded here.

He does not believe that any other of the recent quakes in Oklahoma or elsewhere are related to fracking at all.

The quakes in OK are relatively shallow as far as quakes go, with most occurrences at less than 11 Km deep.

Detecting glacialquakes is important because glaciers appear to accelerate after large calving events.2 The frequency of glacialquakes — which has been rising since the late 1990s — has increased particularly since 2002.3 In fact, the number of quakes in 2005 was twice that of 2001.1 In late summer of 2005, glacial seismic activity was almost five times greater than in the winter months — most likely owing to seasonal changes in temperature.1, 3

One clue to the lack of concern might simply be the roughly 40 - year period of relative seismic calm (in terms of a lack of great quakes in populous places) from the 1960s into the 2000s, as shown in the chart above from Bilham's report.

There are equal numbers of M ~ 8 and M ~ 9 quakes in the timeline, but globally there are 10 M ≥ 8 shocks for every M ≥ 9, and I doubt Cascadia would be much different.

(Read «Tectonic shift to paradigm shift on quakes in Nepal.»)

The state registers earthquakes of significant magnitude more frequently than other states, with 8 of the 10 most expensive quakes in history recorded here.

Spokeswoman Julia Jarema says there have already been four small quakes in the North Carolina this year.

The premise that students moving to charter schools will cause financial quakes in traditional school systems also suggests we should accept another premise that public school systems are so inflexible they can not adjust their fixed and variable costs and still produce quality learning.

As one web designer puts it, «Even the most shady fly - by - night cowboy quakes in fear of Copyscape!»

Earthquakes generated here trigger far more widespread effects than other types of quakes in the region.

Vlad Manea says some of them may have been strong enough to release stored pressure and close the gap — which would make future quakes in the region less likely.

While the app has detected quakes in seismically active areas such as Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan and the West Coast of the U.S., one surprising hot spot has been the traditionally quiet state of Oklahoma.

The volcano trembled back to life with a series of small quakes in the early morning hours of September 23 and has rumbled with seismic swarms ever since.

More recently, prior to several medium - to moderate - sized quakes in Peru, two sensitive magnetometers recorded the same sort of pulses.

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.

«Earthquake triggers «slow motion» quakes in New Zealand.»

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.

In 1811 three powerful quakes in a row — measuring approximately 7.5 to 8.3 on the Richter scale — ripped along the fault there, ringing church bells as far away as Boston.

The apparent absence of quakes in the stuck patch led many seismologists to assume that the fault there could be slowly but steadily slipping without building up any strain.

A new study attributes the recent surge of quakes in central Oklahoma to the injection of wastewater at a handful of high - rate wells across the state

As part of these analyses, Tom Parsons of the U.S. Geological Survey and Margarita Segou of GeoAzur compared data collected from the Wenchuan and Lushan quakes with data on aftershocks and stress change in four other major earthquakes, including the M 7.4 Landers and Izmit quakes in California and Turkey, respectively, and the M 7.9 Denali quake in Alaska and the M 7.1 Canterbury quake in New Zealand.

Now we have tantalising evidence that it may be possible to build a system to warn of some large quakes in the minutes before they strike.

«How friction evolves during an earthquake: By simulating quakes in a lab, engineers study the way that friction changes along a fault during a seismic event.»

Notable recent quakes include the one in Haiti earlier this year and a series of quakes in San Francisco two decades ago.

Along the Cascadia segment, geologists could find no evidence of major quakes in «all of recorded history» — the 140 years since white settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and began keeping records.

Experts have not yet tied the quake to oil and gas production, but the epicenter is near wastewater disposal wells, structures that have been implicated in earlier quakes in the state.

Tanaka saw the same signal in the run - up to two nearby massive quakes in 2005 and 2007 (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009GL041581).

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Some news reports say that there have been over 200 quakes in this valley, all small, but enough to rattle even the calmest nerves.

An earth quake in Papua New Guinea in February disrupted operations at Exxon's liquefied natural gas facility, reducing its quarterly earnings by $ 80 million.

According to Seoul, nuclear test on Sunday resulted in an artificial 5.7 magnitude quake in Kilju, which is in the northern Hamgyong province where North Korea conducts its nuclear tests, according to the AP.

Then you must be quaking in your snow boots after the news agencies reported the recent catastrophic predictions of Duetsche Bank.

Should we all be quaking in our collective boots?

I do think it's prudent to be pessimistic in other areas of life perhaps about earth quake in CA, or whatever history recycles because this helps me prepare.

@bringoutyourdead If you want people to quake in sheer terror, make sure your mighty sword is at least a little bigger and sharper than a popsicle stick!

Face it: there's basically no place in the country, and probably the world, that can't expect a significant quake in that sort of time period.

Why did NONE of the natural historians of the day say NOTHING about the earth quake in Matthew, or all the zombies running around?

I myself experienced an earlier quake in PA..

There is something about the «fear of the Lord» which is important to have, but it is a loving / worshipful / respectful sort of fear, not the quaking in our boots because God wants to squash us like a bug sort of fear.

I think they should be quaking in their boots, er, uh, I mean Italian shoes.

Indeed the Earth (or mankind) did quake in a way it had never before been shaken.»

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.

If I was a fan of any other team in the AFC East I'd be quaking in my boots at the thought of Jackson in a Patriots uniform.

Since the Monaco debacle at home Giroud has scored in all three League games for the gunners, and I hope the Monaco players have been watching and quaking in their boots.

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».