Sentences with phrase «series of aftershocks»

In the wake of Friday's tragic earthquake and tsunami and the continuing series of aftershocks, Catalyst -LSB-...]

Residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, are anxiously awaiting further developments after the city was hit by series of aftershocks.

First, the region had recently experienced increased seismic activity, including a magnitude - 6.7 quake 2 weeks ago and a series of aftershocks that included three with a magnitude of 6.2, 26 with a magnitude of 5 or greater, and more than 60 with a magnitude of 4 or more.

Conversely, a series of aftershocks that contains only two such moderate - sized aftershocks would also contain far fewer magnitude - 4 or larger quakes than sensors actually record today.

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

Not exact matches

The occasional quakes rattling the New Madrid Seismic Zone, a series of midwestern faults named for a small town in the Missouri Bootheel, aren't aftershocks of the massive quakes that rocked our fledgling nation more than 2 centuries ago, a new study suggests.

Indeed, one of the four largest quakes of that winter — one that occurred at about dawn on 16 December 1811 — is considered to be an aftershock of the first quake in the series, which occurred about 5 hours earlier.

Osten compares the dwindling series of flares to the cascade of aftershocks following a major earthquake.

He followed that film with one hugely disappointing sequel / rehash, 2007's «Hostel: Part II,» and in intervening years has flirted with a host of projects which never came to pass (the Stephen King adaptation «Cellular,» a feature - length expansion of his «Grindhouse» short, a sci - fi film called «Endangered Species,» etc.), stepped in front of the camera for friends («Inglourious Basterds,» «Aftershock «-RRB- and helped bring the Netflix series «Hemlock Grove» to life.

Day's second ebook in the series, Aftershock, will follow on November 15, 2013, along with a two - in - one paperback edition of the duo.

One can almost hear Alfredo Gisholt's latest series, Canto General, pulsating with this same aftershock of rhythmic duress.