Sentences with phrase «shaken by earthquakes»

After Tokyo was shaken by earthquakes in March 2011, the prominent billionaire property developer Akira Mori called for the country to stop building skyscrapers over 100 metres high.

Then the place is shook by an earthquake, and everything takes a turn for the worse.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

Researchers underestimated the device's explosive power by nearly three-fold — and many were nearly killed when an artificial earthquake shook their concrete observation bunker 20 miles away.

(15) Do ye feel secure that He Who is in heaven will not cause you to be swallowed up by the earth when it shakes (as in an earthquake)?

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

Joel 2:30,31 «And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.»

Inspired by the recent earthquake that shook New York City, Riazul tequila has furnished a three - part cocktail recipe for at - home mixology:

Mexico City fast became one of the best - studied earthquake zones in the world and scientists now know that buildings of these heights reacted to the particular frequency generated by the shake - amplifying landfill.

Engineers can test how well a building will hold up to lateral force by placing a model of it on a «shake table,» which moves horizontally to replicate the stresses created by an earthquake.

The research effort began by establishing which factors most influence the pattern of ground shaking during a Cascadia earthquake.

Earthquake shaking is caused by a mixture of seismic waves moving through the ground at different frequencies.

But on 25 April, it was reduced to rubble by the magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake — even though many one - and two - story buildings escaped the shaking relatively unscathed.

The team spent more than a year collecting data from phones placed on a «shake table,» a device that simulates the ground motions produced by an earthquake, and comparing them with data from everyday movements.

The severity of earthquake shaking is fundamentally controlled by three factors: earthquake magnitude, the attenuation of energy as waves move through the crust and the modification of shaking due to the local geological structure.

«We demonstrated that consecutively triggered earthquakes can enhance the amount of energy produced by the ruptures, exceeding the design specifications expected for buildings in moderate seismic hazard zones,» said Tramelli, whose analysis suggests that the shaking from multiple magnitude 5.0 earthquakes would be significantly greater than from an individual magnitude 5.0 event.

A new study by a team of researchers, including one from the University of California, Riverside, found that the fault under Ventura, Calif., would likely cause stronger shaking during an earthquake and more damage than previously suspected.

The lateral shaking may have been amplified by a phenomenon noted during the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, in which seismic waves bounce off firmer rock below, and intensify the shaking at ground level.

«We can't stop the tide of flu any more than we can turn a hurricane in its course or stop the earth shaking during an earthquake, but we can mitigate the effects and help prevent people from becoming severely ill by preparing well and acting effectively,» he said.

An analysis of buildings tagged red and yellow by structural engineers after the August 2014 earthquake in Napa links pre-1950 buildings and the underlying sedimentary basin to the greatest shaking damage, according to one of six reports on the Napa quake published in the March / April issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

Many people understand the damage that can be caused to structures, roads, bridges and utilities by ground shaking in these long - lasting types of earthquakes, such as the one that's anticipated on the Cascadia Subduction Zone between northern California and British Columbia.

Intensity measures the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location.

Those sections of the volcano, held together loosely by gravity, can fall apart in response to stresses, such as shaking from a mild earthquake.

Scientists rely on the public's reporting of ground shaking to characterize the intensity of ground motion produced by an earthquake.

Scientists from seismic monitoring agencies across the globe were shaken out of bed this morning by calls to respond to the devastating earthquake that struck Japan.

Asimaki notes that Los Angeles is also built atop sedimentary deposits and is surrounded by hills and mountain ranges that would also be prone to this type of increased shaking intensity during a major earthquake.

Information about the earthquake source can be used to estimate what areas were most affected by an earthquake's shaking to guide rescue efforts and damage assessment.

Ground shaking: Ground shaking is both a hazard created by earthquakes and the trigger for other hazards such as liquefaction and landslides.

Most earthquake damage results from the shaking caused by seismic waves passing beneath buildings, roads, and other structures.

Site conditions can modify the shaking of large earthquakes and control the damage to buildings and other infrastructure caused by the shaking.

«It got slightly less ground shaking [than Sluice Pond] in 1755, but it might have been affected by a 1638 earthquake in southern New Hampshire,» Monecke explained.

Focused only slightly differently is «San Andreas: The Real Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operator.

Earthquake insurance provides for damage caused by the shaking and cracking that can destroy buildings and personal possessions.

The city of Juchitan, on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, was hit particularly hard by the 8.2 - magnitude earthquake that shook the region on Sept. 7, 2017.

By shaking the Wii Remote, you can shake down your enemies, free coins from treasure bags and even cause earthquakes.

Over 50 major earthquakes have shaken the world, which have shortened the Earth day by 2.68 microseconds.

The foreign kingdom Topius has lately been ridden by never - ending earthquakes; cracks in the ground spew out toxic fumes and the cherry blossoms have all been shaken off their branches.

That August, the artist was beaten by Chinese police for trying to testify for Tan Zuoren, with whom he had investigated the aftermath — student casualties as well as poorly constructed buildings and infrastructure — of the devastating 8.0 - magnitude earthquake that shook the Sichuan province in May of 2008.

In a 2013 paper in Science, Brian Tucker, the founder of GeoHazards International, illustrated the problem by noting that the mortality rate of Haitians in areas severely shaken by the 2010 Port - au - Prince earthquake was 100 times higher than the rate in areas experiencing similar shaking in Chile's great earthquake the same year.

This earthquake struck around mid-day, on a Saturday, and in many places the strongest shaking appears to have been preceded by tens of seconds of weaker shaking.

By Ed Caryl The Washington Post just published an alarmist article titled: Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why.

Earthquake insurance provides for damage caused by the shaking and cracking that can destroy buildings and personal possessions.

In normal terms, earthquake refers to shaking or trembling of earth which is caused by tectonic process, volcanic eruptions or other causes.