Sentences with phrase «worst magnitude earthquake»
While en route to the country in April, the worst magnitude earthquake to hit the region in more than 80 years struck.
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The reactors along Japan's Pacific coast suffered no serious damage from the earthquake, even though its magnitude exceeded the worst - case scenarios assumed in their designs.
Damage from an earthquake of this magnitude would be even worse if it were to happen in a more densely populated area.
With a magnitude of 7.8, it was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal - Bihar earthquake.
«As horrific as this was, the situation could have been far worse for an earthquake of this magnitude.»
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.
This is the worst earthquake to hit China since 1976 when a magnitude 7.5 temblor struck the northern Chinese city of Tangshan, leaving 240,000 dead.
Oklahoma has gotten the worst of it, averaging more than 700 earthquakes per year of magnitude 3 or greater over the last three years — compared with just one per year from 1974 to 2008.
In contrast to the 7.9 China earthquake, the italian tremor had a magnitude of 6.3 according to the United States Geological Survey — the italians still report it as 5.8, which makes the analogy worse.
Sure enough, according to the USGS study, «Oklahoma is by far the worst - hit state recently... [t] he state last year had more magnitude 3 (or higher) earthquakes than California, part of a huge increase recorded in recent years.»
«The force of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake followed by a tsunami is far worse than would be inflicted even by a direct - hit airline crash or bombing raid.