Sentences with phrase «years after the earthquake»

Lienkaemper and McFarland found that only about 74 percent of the predicted amount of afterslip for the Parkfield earthquake — a maximum expected value of about 35 centimeters — was complete a year after the earthquake.

Two years after the earthquake and thousands of deaths later, the debate about whether to use the cholera vaccine in Haiti continues

Suicides increased initially, followed by a decrease in the two years after the earthquake.

Among those who remained in Florida through at least spring 2012, Haitian earthquake refugees scored an average of 1.35 standard deviations below the state mean in reading and 0.98 standard deviations below the state mean in math in spring 2011, one year after the earthquake.

In particular, there is the Nepal Cares program — one year after the earthquake and there is so much work that still needs to be done.

Taking place in Shibuya, Tokyo, several years after an earthquake has nearly destroyed the district, it follows Takuru Miyashiro, a high school student who lost his parents in the earthquake, and his group of friends.

Even now, five years after the earthquake, the most urgent need is still clean drinking water to prevent children from dying of water - borne disease.

Not exact matches

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

After an earthquake hit southern Italy near Naples in 1980, some survivors had to wait more than 20 years before their damaged properties were restored.

Three years after a catastrophic earthquake rocked Haiti, the country has still not fully recovered.

A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $ 15 million to help people recover and rebuild — which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.

West Hollywood's action comes two years after building inspectors in Los Angeles said 13,500 buildings in that city needed earthquake - readiness retrofits.

Chen went on to say he had helped over two million people with his philanthropy and had donated money after natural disasters such as the 2010 Japanese Tsunami or the Haitian earthquake from the same year.

More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.

Citing the impacts of the earthquakes, and a consumer - price inflation that would soon start falling after a 16 - year high, Banxico announced that it would likely keep interest rates unchanged through the end of 2017.

Christian humanitarian agency Tearfund has built 108 houses in Nepal after a catastrophic earthquake in the country three years ago.

The years - worth of free rice from USAID and the UN after the earthquake put an entire region of Haitian rice farmers out of work, driving their families into abject poverty, and now their children are vulnerable to child trafficking.

So, an earthquake will stike precisely on the International Date Line... a line arbitrarily drawn on a map of the world well over a thousand years after the Bible was written.

Idaho Potato Commission's (IPC) Continued Relief Efforts Help Haitian Children One Year After Devastating Earthquake Volunteers and Financial Donations Needed!

Year After Quake, Napa's Wine Industry Healthy: In the immediate aftermath of last August's earthquake in Napa, photographs quickly circulated of shattered wine racks, toppled barrels and what looked like an endless river of spilled red wine...

The talent is there, with scoring threats in Navid Khamush and Ali Amin, strong defenders in Ryan Murray and Stefen Dillon, and the return of senior forward Suliman Khorami, who is back after a year with the Earthquakes Academy.

It was not that long ago when we were noting that even a natural disaster like the earthquake that rattled parts of New Zealand early last year could not shake Lydia Ko's nearly flawless play as the then - teen phenom continued to compile win after win and secure her stranglehold on the world No. 1 ranking.

The 28 - year - old joins the Earthquakes from Swiss club FC Lucerne after an undisclosed transfer fee.

Karen volunteered in Haiti just weeks after the earthquake to help begin the process of providing supportive care for the women and babies in Fond Parisien and she is returning two years later to provide peer - to - peer support and training for the local Haitian midwives.

My first trip was in 2012, just two years after the devastating 7.0 earthquake that claimed so many...

While Greco - Turkish relations have significantly improved in recent years, especially after the 1999 earthquakes that devastated İzmit and Athens, Greece reserves it's right to veto Turkey's membership at any time, especially since there are unresolved territorial disputes between the two countries.

Many wonder why Oklahoma waited until 2015, after the state had experienced more than 750 earthquakes over seven years, to take significant action.

Tall and wiry himself in jeans and a white T - shirt, Chamblin leans against one of three 1,000 - gallon water tanks that were filled regularly in the months after the earthquake but that, residents say, have been empty now for a year.

After 18 years of relative calm, the mountain rumbled to life again this year with swarms of earthquakes and a new mound of rock that poked into view in early October.

The findings, reported April 18 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), suggest that there can be a range of afterslip durations along faults, making it more challenging to predict how post-earthquake movements might damage nearby infrastructure for years after a major earthquake.

This long period of «afterslip» compares to just a year of afterslip for a similar magnitude quake in Napa, California in 2014, demonstrating large variation in fault behavior after earthquakes.

A new study shows that the San Andreas Fault continued to slip gradually for six to twelve years after the 2004 magnitude 6.0 Parkfield, California earthquake, raising the issue of continued damage to structures built across fault zones after damaging earthquakes.

A system to provide early warnings of earthquakes such as the one which shook California's wine country this week is planned and ready to go, but two years after the scientific work finished, the funding is still being lined up.

Seven years later, when the reservoir's water supply was restored to full capacity — after engineers lowered it 130 feet (40 meters) for maintenance — the area experienced an unusual series of earthquakes.

Six years ago, after watching hurricane Katrina and Pakistan's Kashmir earthquake leave tens of thousands homeless, California builder Michael Conner set out to design a sturdy shelter that could be deployed at a moment's notice in the wake of a disaster.

Then, five years ago, his search gained momentum after six sandstone building blocks of Egyptian design turned up beneath the overburden of earthquake rubble.

Seven years after one of the largest earthquakes on record unleashed a massive tsunami and triggered a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, officials say they are at last getting a handle on the mammoth task of cleaning the site before it is ultimately dismantled.

In previous earthquakes in mountainous terrain, many earthquake - initiated landslides occurred from minutes to years after the initial quake.

More than three years earlier, after an earthquake and tsunamis battered Japan's eastern coast, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station blew, blasting radiation into the sea and sky.

Six seismologists and a public official in Italy were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison in 2012 after underestimating earthquake risk before a magnitude 6.3 quake hit the city of L'Aquila in April 2009.

A year after a devastating earthquake triggered killer avalanches and rock falls in Nepal, scientists are wiring up mountainsides to forecast hazards

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

After the seismic survey, the Langseth returned to pick up 60 seismometers, leaving behind 20 broadband seismometers and the hydrophones that will listen for a year to the reverberations from distant earthquakes, allowing the seismologists to map structures as deep as 60 miles beneath the surface.

The first of this year occurred on February 6, after an earthquake shook the seafloor off the Solomon Islands.

The fault continued to slip for 12 years after the 2004 Parkfield earthquake — a level of movement that has major implications for the Hayward Fault, which is set to rupture near San Francisco.

Drilling a borehole into a fault soon after a large earthquake could answer questions that have bedeviled seismologists for years.

«The Hollywood Reporter» reports on how, after one year after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, Sean Penn, Paul Haggis, Maria Bello and their -LSB-...]

After all these years it's hard for me to say if «Earthquake» is either a guilty pleasure or a movie so bad that it's good.

San Andreas joins a long list of disaster movies that have been hurtled our way over the past few years; from the heights of Irwin Allen's epics of the 1960s and 1970s (see The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure), to the more recent CGI affairs, most of which were thrown at the screen by German director Roland Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).

In 2004, after Green Lane Diary had already been in successful operation for five years, the third largest earthquake in recorded history released a tsunami, devastating communities in many nations in the Indian Ocean, including Sri Lanka.