Sentences with phrase «temblor killed»
In a paper calculating new Chinese earthquake risks in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Japanese and American geophysicists analyzed shifts in stress along several faults around the area where a magnitude 7.9 temblor killed nearly 70,000 people and drew rare citizen protests because so many schools crumbled.
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A few days later, a 6.3 - magnitude temblor killed more than 300.
Between 1994 and 2013, temblors killed almost 750,000 people — more than all other disasters put together.
Not exact matches
The December 26 temblor in Bam, 630 miles southeast of the Iranian capital Tehran, killed an estimated 34,000 people and injured 30,000 others.
He was referring to the magnitude 6.9 temblor that struck Mount Borah, Idaho's tallest peak, killing two children in Challis and damaging hundreds of homes and businesses.
With the trailer rolling and yawing dramatically even in this modest temblor, the fact that earthquakes have killed more than 1.8 million people since 1900 is suddenly very easy to believe.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — A great offshore earthquake, like the one that killed hundreds of thousands when it struck off Indonesia's Sumatra coast in December 2004, would seem to offer a small measure of solace to survivors: The offshore tectonic fault that caused the temblor should require many centuries to recharge.