Sentences with phrase «quakes striking»

Bar Duomo, which opened just a month ago, is the only bar or restaurant in the square which used to teem with life before the quake struck on April 6, 2009.

Elsewhere on the Ring of Fire, a magnitude - 6.1 quake struck Indonesia and a volcano erupted in Japan.

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

The 8.9 magnitude quake struck at a depth of six miles about 80 miles off the eastern coast, according to Japan's meteorological agency.

No one really understood how the loose landfill would react to major earthquakes until 1985, when a magnitude - 8 quake struck the coast along the same plate boundary as Tuesday's quake.

In California not too long ago, a magnitude 4.8 quake struck near the southern San Andreas, the biggest so close to the fault in the history of seismic recording.

Engineers and seismologists in more than half of the world's countries had few such maps or had waited until major quakes struck to calculate the risks of future shaking, Giardini notes.»

The quake struck about 80 kilometers east of the city of Khash in a thinly populated mountainous region near the border with Pakistan.

The quake struck shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday, about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, at a depth of about 71 miles (114 km), the USGS said.

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

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

When a quake strikes, the sensors can detect precisely how much the crust has moved.

Since the main quake struck, hundreds of aftershocks have been registered, the strongest that of April 2 (CEST) of a magnitude of 7.6.

Moffat was at a meeting in Portland, Oregon, with Chilean colleagues when the quake struck.

In 1999 a magnitude - 7.6 quake struck near Izmit, just 70 kilometres from Istanbul, killing around 17,000 people.

For example, in the weeks before a magnitude - 5.4 quake struck about 15 kilometers northeast of San Jose in October 2007, an instrument near the epicenter sensed a number of unusual magnetic pulses, presumably emanating from deep in the Earth.

Less than a week later, on April 6, a 6.3 - magnitude quake struck in Abruzzo.

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

The quake struck at the intersection of the most vigorous collision of continental plates on the planet, where the Indian continental plate smashes into the Eurasian plate and dives beneath it.

The US Geological Survey said the massive quake struck off - shore 130 km east of Sendai in Honshu at a depth of 24 km.

Four - year - old Labrador pup named Tie Hsiung, whose name translates to «Iron Hero», set out on his first mission as a rescue dog to search for survivors after a shocking 6.4 magnitude quake struck the eastern city of Hualien, Taiwan, on 6 Feb (Tues), resulting in a death toll of 10 people.

Here some were used in Kathmandu on the first night after the quake struck.

when the quake struck.

Timing clearly played a role, as well, with the latest quake striking at 12:51 p.m. local time on a work day.

The meeting took place 6 days before the fatal quake struck, and in 2012, Judge Marco Billi ruled that the commission members carried out a «superficial, approximate and generic» risk analysis, and that they made a number of reassuring statements that led 29 of the quake's 309 victims to remain indoors at the time of the disaster, despite the occurrence of two moderate tremors several hours beforehand....

Recently a 4.1 magnitude quake struck the eastern Texas town of Timpson.

Educating yourself on how to gather earthquake preparation supplies, along with having an emergency plan for when a quake strikes, is crucial.

If you are outdoors when the quake strikes, move away from buildings, poles, streetlights and utility wires and drop to the ground until the shaking completely stops

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) suffered the damage to its plants on February 6 when a 6.4 - magnitude quake struck the southern part of the country.Initially, TSMC reported that the damage incurred would reduce the amount of chips it could ship by less than 1 percent.

For instance, a potential buyer for a $ 20 million apartment complex in Loma Prieta, Calif., where a devastating quake struck in 1989, might give a lender an engineering report showing that a magnitude 6.5 quake would cause $ 10 million in damage to the complex.

Not exact matches

A magnitude - 7.9 quake has struck in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting tsunami warnings in Alaska and British Columbia.

«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.»

The two players have struck a good balance of offense and defense, with Eriksson, the Quakes newest Designated Player, looking exceptionally energetic.

The signals generated by the magnitude - 9.1 quake that struck Japan were barely one - billionth g, the amount of Earth's gravitational field at sea level, but they traveled at the speed of light and were detected at seismometers hundreds of kilometers away, the researchers report today in Science.

By the time the 2004 magnitude - 6.0 Parkfield earthquake — the most closely monitored quake of all time — struck the central San Andreas fault without so much as a hint of a precursor (Science, 8 October 2004, p. 206), most researchers had abandoned attempts at precise prediction.

The magnitude 5.8 quake that struck central Virginia yesterday was felt from Florida, to Maine to Missouri.

Instead of giving the year or range of years when the next quake will strike a particular segment of fault, they express it as a probability.

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

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

Haiti's quake has also demonstrated that strike - slip faults, which create mostly horizontal motions, can set off landslides and giant tsunamis (usually associated with faults that move in a vertical, thrusting motion).

The findings also confirm that the entire area of the Himalayas is capable of producing large earthquakes like the magnitude - 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

One of the largest quakes to strike Japan occurred in 1944, leading to the loss of more than 1,200 lives on the main and most populated island of Honshu.

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.

An analysis of quakes and eruptions during the past several centuries revealed about 20 pairs that struck within 750 kilometers of each other, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

According to their model, Bufe says, the probability of another quake of magnitude 9 or larger striking in the next 6 years is about 63 per cent.

The magnitude 8.2 quake that struck Chile in April was smaller than the major temblor that researchers are anticipating

The quake measured 5.7 in magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and struck at sea 80 miles south of the Greek capital.

No injuries were immediately reported from either Saturday's quake or the more significant earthquake that struck Friday evening outside La Habra, California, which is about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

So it was a surprise when a magnitude 4.1 «quake» struck Nuugaatsiaq, a tiny island off Greenland's west coast on 17 June.

A year after that tremor, Italian prosecutors charged six scientists and a public official with falsely assuring L'Aquila's residents that a quake was unlikely, just days before it struck and killed 309 people.