Sentences with phrase «small earthquakes over»
There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.
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Smaller earthquakes and floods happen all over the world every year.
According to the USGS, earthquakes between 5.0 and 5.9 are listed as moderate, and «can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions.
«It has been argued for decades that fault systems evolving over geological time may unify smaller fault segments, forming mature rupture zones with a potential for larger earthquake,» said Marco Bohnhoff, professor of geophysics at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, who sought to clarify the seismic hazard potential from the NAFZ.
The Gorkha earthquake relieved strain over a fairly small patch of the MHT fault.
Fiber goes out in the ocean, and it's all over the land, so this technology increases the likelihood that a sensor is near the rupture when an earthquake happens, which translates into finding small events, improved earthquake locations, and extra time for early warning.»
But given what we know about how big earthquakes are, while it's still possible to have a huge 9.0 magnitude earthquake, it's more likely that it'll be a smaller earthquake, still big, significant over 6.7 magnitude, almost certain to happen by 2038; but one thing [it won't do] is to reshape California's coast; it's not likely to [reshape] California, because it won't be as bad, I think, as people have anticipated.
Yam: I mean, we're focused on California earthquakes, but of course, severe earthquakes happen all over the world, and I think places, as Haiti demonstrated, even smaller earthquakes can cause much greater damage, based on the construction there.
Nearby seismometers revealed that the events released energy equivalent to earthquakes of magnitudes 5.1 and 4.9 and triggered 16 tiny quakes over 10 days, the smallest of which packed less pop than a hand grenade.
Over the wide frequency range of seismic waves transmitted through the Earth (hundreds of seconds to ten cycles per second), the sensors of the permanent and transportable seismic and magnetotelluric arrays will resolve the smallest background motions at the quietest of sites, while remaining «on scale» for all but the largest ground motions from regional earthquakes.
Italy and Greece have suffered hundreds of known small and great earthquakes over their last three millennia of recorded history.
This is a small but real start on the more than 1,000 school buildings that are candidates for retrofits, and tangible testimony to the efforts of earthquake hazard engineer Yumei Wang and state Sen. Peter Courtney over many years.
It was noticed in a California earthquake some years ago that unreinforced brick warehouses survived while reinforced concrete (an earthquake - resistant material) elevated freeways fell, and small apartment houses built on steel columns over open parking areas often dropped to the ground.