Sentences with phrase «time of the earthquake»

At the time of the earthquake, the area in Colorado was a swampy, delta - like environment, crossed by large braided streams that ran from the young Rocky Mountains.

Given the complexity of tectonic plate activity, the prospect of developing technology that can predict the exact timing of an earthquake is remote, Sarma says.

The reactor shut down, as designed, at the time of the earthquake.

What remains unclear is how much of the nuclear fuel at any of the three Fukushima Daiichi reactors has melted down, though TEPCO has announced that the fuel is likely damaged in all three reactors that were operating there at the time of the earthquake.

If the fuel rods are no longer being cooled — as has happened at all three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant operating at the time of the earthquake — then the zirconium cladding will swell and crack, releasing the uranium fuel pellets and fission byproducts, such as radioactive cesium and iodine, among others.

Brocher et al. suggest the timing of the earthquake near the end of the dry season, the three - year long drought and resulting low water table inhibited the liquefaction of the top layers of sandy deposits, sparing the area greater damage.

Depending upon the water saturation level of the soil at the time of the earthquake, several hundred to thousands of buildings could be affected citywide.

«We need at least 300 smartphones within a 110 - kilometer - by -110-kilometer area in order to have a reasonable estimate of the location, magnitude and origin time of an earthquake,» Kong said.

As earthquakes occur during the course of this project, the team is measuring the deformation at the time of the earthquakes to determine the distribution of slip on the faults, and then monitoring longer - term motions after the earthquakes to learn more about fault zone properties.

Luckily at the time of the Earthquake my sister - in - law, nephew and mother - in - law were visiting the US.

Indians living on the island at the time of this earthquake were sufficiently scared to want to leave Santa Rosa Island for a life on the mainland.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [Graphs updated to include error bars] Inspired by the paper by the charmingly - named Maya Tolstoy discussed here on WUWT, I decided to see if tidal forces affect the timing of earthquakes and volcanoes.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

State seismologist Richard D. Andrews and Dr. Austen Holland said at the time the earthquakes «are very unlikely to represent a naturally occurring process» with data indicating the number of earthquakes were probably linked to drilling.

The current average rate of earthquakes is approximately 600 times historical averages, according to state government.

Last month, Bennett, who leads the right - wing Jewish Home party and was the economy minister at the time of the campaign, said the report would be an «earthquake» that would reveal the failures of the country's leaders during the conflict.

As a teen, she spent time working with children born to women in prison and volunteered at a relief camp in the wake of a devastating earthquake in 2005.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

Among them is why Sarao's actions on this particular day caused so much damage, when the indictments state that he'd done the same thing hundreds of times over a four - year period, concluding in April 2014, without causing similar market earthquakes.

The photo gallery above is a reminder of both the might of Mother Nature and the potential danger of nuclear power, as well as a warning for what could happen the next time a big earthquake hits.

As of this writing, there have not been any reports of damage or tsunami warnings, but the earthquake hit at 2:37 a.m. local time, and the story is still developing.

Declining insurance and recovery costs related to the April 2016 earthquake in Kumamoto also provided a one - time benefit of 9.3 billion yen.

Some of the more extreme forecasts made for this time period include alien visitations / invasions, catastrophic asteroid impacts, violent volcanic eruptions and massive earthquakes.

For scale, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, which set off a chain of events leading to the Panic of 1907, resulted in damage estimated at 1.3 - 1.8 % of GNP at that time.

The cathedral is planning to repair earthquake damage in time to reopen this weekend, when it will host a variety of events marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, including a Sunday event that will be attended by President Barack Obama.

It has helped others during times of adversity and war and earthquakes and so on.

I am having a hard time trying to remember Earthquakes being listed as a sign of the end.

Just about every day I'd hear how the end times are upon us because of a new earthquake or hurricane, or liberals or gays.

As for the hurricanes and earthquakes, the bible warns us of an increase in such natural disasters in the end times.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

If I could tell when the end times were on their way by the number of wars, famines, earthquakes and plagues that are afflicting our world, I'd say, «Wow!

Fairly obvious that the increase of earthquakes, famines, wars, even volcanoes are the birth pains of the End Times coming.

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Editor's note: As aid organizations struggle to reach Nepal residents reeling from an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster, evangelical groups including World Vision, Convoy of Hope, and Samaritan's Purse are racing to help survivors as aftershocks continue.

Predicting earthquakes, famine and other sorts of dissaster is kinda like predicting that the sun will rise tomorrow — thus it's a prediction that the faitful of each generation can firmly count on to apply to THEIR times.

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

The ruins of the earthquake at Lisbon, for example: the whole of past history had to be planned exactly as it was to bring about in the fullness of time just that particular arrangement of debris of masonry, furniture, and once living bodies.

«The end - time earthquakes in the book of Revelation are meant as calls to repentance — to warn people who deny Jesus Christ that a day is coming when unbelievers will cry to the mountains and the rocks, «Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb»

The end - time earthquakes in Matthew 24:7 - 8 are meant to be interpreted as «the beginning of the birth pangs.»

As it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison system.

Personally I believe the idea of an angry god comes from things that in ancient times that were inexplicable, like earthquakes and storms.

The Rev. Franklin Graham says the earthquake and tsunami in Japan could be a sign of the end times.

At the time of Jesus» death there was an earthquake (as not in the other gospels) and «many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city [note the Jewish expression] and appeared to many (27:52 - 3).

He also served as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance around the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and 2005 Pakistan earthquake.

Up until this time the activities of the gods were expected primarily in natural events, particularly the miraculous and the extraordinary, such as earthquakes, storms and famine.

wow what a waste of time all in the end when earthquakes and floods and famine increase, people will be just people cold hungry homeless afraid bitter sick hopelessness.what a crazy cycle huh global people billions of people in super earth Quakes that are comeing too Shake Islands forever in the seas underwater

So that gives the Primate of All England about 12 minutes» «face time» with the Supreme Pontiff to discuss the ecumenical earthquake of the Personal Ordinariates — but, in fact, it looks as if they devoted much of it to ARCIC, the official dialogue between the Communions which I thought had been wound down years ago.

The prophet Amos performed his mission about the time of the great earthquake in the middle of the eighth century.

No formal prayer - while Earthquake / Hurricanes are showing us a very powerful sign at this particular time of the year!?

Those anticipated earthquakes that the May 21 doomsdayers said would ravage the earth on Saturday at 6 p.m. in each of the world's time zones never came.