Sentences with phrase «such large quakes»

Not exact matches

Although there is evidence that the ground motions induced by major temblors trigger small quakes thousands of kilometres away, there's no sign that such triggering occurs for large quakes, he adds.

«Such large faults could even have the potential of a magnitude 8 quake,» said geologist Christopher Sorlien of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who is not a co-author on the new paper.

But major earthquakes such as the Mw 7.9 2008 Chengdu quake in China and New Zealand's 2011 Mw 6.3 quake have shown that large earthquakes do occur and can cause significant infrastructure damage and loss of life.

The earthquake — estimated at magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale — occurred in a total area much smaller than previous large earthquakes, such as the 8.8 Chilean earthquake last year, arguing that the slippage was much greater for the Japan quake, one of the four most powerful earthquakes on record.

Although such accumulated strain may be released in a series of smaller, less hazardous rumbles, Floyd says that given the historical pattern of major quakes along the North Anatolian Fault, it would be reasonable to expect a large earthquake off the coast of Istanbul within the next few decades.

T - Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco.

That process of subduction triggers the largest earthquakes in the world, such as the magnitude - 9.5 Chilean quake in 1960 and the magnitude - 9.1 Sumatran quake in 2004.

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.

This longer - period shaking was responsible for the collapse of taller structures in Kathmandu, such as the Dharahara Tower, a 60 - meter - high tower that survived larger earthquakes in 1833 and 1934 but collapsed completely during the Gorkha quake.

Add contestants, such as in a Quake Deathmatch or a large game of Risk, and the individual's chances drop with each additional contestant.

But quakes do happen in other parts of the U.S., such as the earthquake centered in Virginia that damaged the Washington Monument in 2011, and another that same year in Oklahoma, which was the state's largest earthquake in modern times.