Sentences with phrase «said about earthquakes»

Not exact matches

«You need to think about your business owners policy,» says Co. «If you don't have a comprehensive property and business interruption policy, you might not be covered if your building floods, is terrorized, if there's an earthquake.

But Vic, people like you said that about lightening, and earthquakes and solar eclipses, yet science did figure those out.

The fact the the earthquake and hurricane were «nothing» to worry about seems to suggest God was saying, «I won't punish you because you are all doing just fine.

Dead bodies will be strewn about as earthquakes ravage the Earth, they say.

«At the Earthquakes Academy, they've got a great new general manager that's thinking about technology and just signed two young Homegrown players,» Garber said.

The number of people killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to about 350, the government has said.

«Two fault lines intersect about a mile north of Indian Point and a Columbia University study tells us a 7.0 magnitude earthquake is quite possible,» Gally said.

That disagreement may exist, Tharimena says, because to study continental thickness, seismologists had previously analyzed fairly shallow earthquake vibrations that couldn't show Earth's structure in fine detail at depths greater than about 150 kilometers.

«This earthquake was something that was not foreseen by anybody, but it managed to change the way that people thought about nuclear power rather dramatically,» said Shcherbakova, who also serves as director of the Master of Science in Energy Management program at UT Dallas.

«Other recent surface - rupturing earthquakes, such as the 1999 Hector Mine quake in southern California, have opened our eyes to the potential for earthquake rupture to cascade from one fault to another,» he says — hence the concern about the «end - to - end» positions of the Panama faults.

«We have a choice when issuing earthquake warnings,» says study leader Sarah Minson, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, in Menlo Park, Calif. «You have to think about your relative risk appetite: What is the cost of taking action versus the cost of the damage you're trying to prevent?»

More than 60 % of these quakes are linked to hydraulic fracture, about 30 - 35 % come from disposal wells, and only 5 to 10 % of the earthquakes have a natural tectonic origin, Atkinson said.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or higher would stop the land from rising and also likely would bring about additional sea - level growth of 1 to 2 meters (3.3 to 6.6 feet) in the area, he said.

«Until slow earthquakes were observed 10 to 15 years ago, conventional wisdom held that faults either released energy slowly and steadily by creeping, or would store tectonic stress until they failed catastrophically,» moving at a rate of about 3 feet per second, says Demian Saffer, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University.

The rupture extended about 180 kilometers, by far the longest rupture for any deep earthquake recorded, Lay said.

Research suggests that small quakes immediately raise the risk of a large quake by as much as a thousandfold, says Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, though the probability is still only about 1 percent per day and falls rapidly with time.

The Met Office said on Sunday a magnitude 5.3 earthquake at 5 kilometres (3 miles) depth had struck after midnight while another, with a magnitude of about 5, had occurred some five hours later.

Previous examples were the conviction of Italian researchers for their failure to warn about the risk of a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila and the recent debate about the Stamina Foundation, which offers stem cell therapies that many scientists say aren't scientifically proven.

«The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50 percent since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in central Oklahoma,» the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said earlier this week.

Producing a clear message about seismic risk remains a major challenge, Mulargia says, given that scientists are still unable to predict when, where, and with what strength the next earthquake will strike.

«We want to find out more about how specific sediments control the size and type of earthquakes in this kind of environment,» says Lisa McNeill of the University of Southampton.

The likelihood of a severe earthquake coming on the heels of the recent swarm is low, but much is perplexing about the series of tremors, said Bill Phillips, a geologist with the Idaho Geological Survey at the University of Idaho.

«The results are consistent with existing constraints on earthquake behavior, offer an explanation for differences in structural style along the margin, and may provide clues about the propensity for shallow earthquake slip in different regions,» said co-author Demian Saffer, a Penn State University professor.

* «If you think about the fact that earthquake damage and reparations is counted in the billions of dollars and we're only asking to build in the low millions of dollars, this is pretty much chump change,» says Jennifer Strauss, a spokesperson for the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory.

The giant Sumatran earthquake raised questions about the sea - floor - age hypothesis, because the old subducting crust there should have ruled out a shock of that size, says Okal.

The New Zealand quake is not only impacting the modeling of future quakes, but is also changing the way scientists think about past ones, says earthquake geologist Kate Clark of GNS Science, a co-author on the Science paper.

«We previously had very limited information about how ruptures grow into great earthquakes and interact with regions around them,» said seismologist Thorne Lay of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

The seismic moment released from the six earthquakes of about magnitude 6 that have occurred on the Parkfield fault segment since 1857 would only account for about 12 percent of the available moment deficit, Michel said.

Wiens, who has worked on similar seismic studies near the Mariana trench and in Antarctica, said these Alaskan experiments will monitor signals from earthquakes to learn more about what triggers volcanoes in the area and how magma movement beneath the earth's crust contributes to the region's intensive geologic activity.

The Chilean earthquakes, Crowell said, represent about half of magnitude 8 events in the recorded catalog of earthquakes that are used to test G - FAST and other geodetic algorithms for inclusion in ShakeAlert.

It's safe to say that no one who's going to see Rampage is expecting a smart night at the multiplex, but it's also safe to say that the film's target audience is expecting briskly paced carnage — at least of the same sort that director Brad Peyton previously splattered about in the junky earthquake epic San Andreas.

«Many times, I worked with a science teacher to help students use the Internet to learn about planets, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on,» said retired K - 8 computer teacher / coordinator Betty Kistler.

«I think of Stacey - Ann Morris as a quiet earthquake — soft - spoken and unfailingly modest, but at the center of everything that's happened in the TIE cohort this year,» says Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of TIE, citing the comments of Morris» peers that describe her as «thoughtful, intellectual, and patient» and «passionate about empowering children around the world.»

«Kids want to do a project that's real and engaging,» says Donna Cole, a middle school science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Plates.

For example, instead of asking a student to «identify the role of tectonic plates in earth geophysical systems,» the teacher might say, «Earthquakes and volcanoes have something in common; let's talk about that.»

Needless to say, local residents are careful about insuring for fire and earthquake to this day!

An article from Dog Care Journey says, «From a scientific perspective, the evidence is inconclusive about whether or not a dog can sense and predict earthquakes and other natural disasters, but some people believe that dogs and other animals are good at predicting such dangers and are able to warn us minutes before an earthquake is about to occur.»

Knowing that earthquakes are not uncommon in Peru, and having talked earlier about what a dangerous place the Colca Canyon would be to get stuck in, in the midst of one, we both looked at each other nervously, both of us knowing what the other was thinking but being too afraid to say it.

Ivan said that they decided on Monolithic Domes for their structures because they're «engineered to combat just about anything nature can deliver, including 300 mph hurricane winds, extreme storm surges and earthquakes.»

It looks like the probability of a big earthquake in the Northwest in the next 50 years is about 5 %, though of course nobody can say this with any precision.

One of my sources said that about 1 % of geothermal energy shows up as earthquakes, that is, kinetic / potential energy.

And perhaps the disaster managers of Oregon and Washington are saying the same thing about us in California, focusing on our «great» earthquakes.

I asked the report's authors about another problem I've been tracking at the World Bank — what some officials there say is a persistent lack of focus on investments that can limit losses in inevitable natural disasters (like reinforcing schools in earthquake zones).

It says a lot about the scale of seismic risk in the region that this great earthquake (the strongest category) is not the predicted «big one.»

Technically you could say the same thing about an asteroid strike, an earthquake (the SF big one?)

'' one of the people that was doing a lot of study about it said that the well would leak crude into the New Madrid fault with the potential affect of causing a lot of earthquakes along the entire fault line.»

As I recall, when BP had the blowout on the Macondo well, one of the people that was doing a lot of study about it said that the well would leak crude into the New Madrid fault with the potential affect of causing a lot of earthquakes along the entire fault line.

«If you are a real estate investor about to buy a building with a commercial mortgage valued over roughly $ 10 million and that building is in earthquake country, the lender tends to demand a probable maximum loss (PML) study before it will underwrite that mortgage,» says Porter.