• An Afghan woman walks with her children amid debris after a powerful earthquake struck Herat province in western Afghanistan on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (wmfe.org)
  • A general view of the ruined Chaahak village after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (wrbl.com)
  • Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, the country's national disaster authority said. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter in the evening on Tuesday, August 1st, 2023, at 8:15 pm local time. (dehai.org)
  • Due to three earthquakes in Herat province, Afghanistan between 7 and 15 October 2023, each with magnitudes of 6.8, over 275,000 individuals were affected. (who.int)
  • On 6 February 2023, a series of massive earthquakes struck south-eastern Türkiye near the border with the Syrian Arab Republic. (who.int)
  • The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit 11 miles north-northeast of Ridgecrest, California, shortly after 8 p.m. (accuweather.com)
  • SYDNEY, Australia - A strong earthquake struck under the sea floor near the South Pacific nation of Tonga on Monday, theU.S. Geological Survey said. (sott.net)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and struck about 20 kilometers (12 miles) below the surface. (bnonews.com)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a magnitude of about 6.8 that was centred just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city. (outlookindia.com)
  • The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the earthquake initially measured 7.4 on the Richter scale and then was reduced to 7.0. (catholictranscript.org)
  • The magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Wednesday was about 28 kilometers (17 miles) outside Herat, the provincial capital, and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (wrbl.com)
  • This is a coincidence," that this is the third Sept. 19 earthquake, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Paul Earle. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • The U.S. Geological Survey preliminarily reported a 3.8 earthquake centered east of Buffalo in the suburb of West Seneca at about 6:15 a.m. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • But, according to the United States Geological Survey, the National Park typically experiences minor earthquakes of a magnitude 2 or below on the Richter Scale. (wakeupwyo.com)
  • According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the registered earthquake intensity was 7.0. (positivelyscottish.scot)
  • A strong earthquake shook eastern Turkey on Monday, damaging buildings and injuring at least 18 people two days after another quake in the region, authorities said. (pravda.ru)
  • The 6.2 quake struck Ishikawa prefecture at 2:42 p.m. near the central west coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake information center. (morningsun.net)
  • The vehicles on the road stopped because the quake was very strong," she said. (koaa.com)
  • The quake felt so strong. (koaa.com)
  • Villagers in Tusom, near the Indian state of Manipur's border with Myanmar, said the earthquake felt weaker than the magnitude-6.7 quake that rattled the region on Jan 4, killing eight people and damaging about 2,000 homes. (news5cleveland.com)
  • The Salvadoran environment ministry said the quake was even stronger, with a magnitude of 6.8. (rappler.com)
  • The quake was very strong. (rappler.com)
  • While the quake was extremely strong, it was relatively deep - measured at 112 kilometers (70 miles) - which usually reduces the possibility of damage and casualties. (worthynews.com)
  • The epicenter of Saturday's quake - also of the same magnitude 6.3 - was about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, and several aftershocks have been strong. (wrbl.com)
  • According to earth quake researchers and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), approximately 90 per cent of the buildings in Delhi are vulnerable to earthquake. (indiatimes.com)
  • Alarms for the new quake came less than an hour after a quake alarms warbled in a nationwide earthquake simulation marking major quakes that struck on the same date in 1985 and 2017. (campbellrivermirror.com)
  • Seismologist Yaareb Altaweel said it matched the intensity of the strongest earthquake the region has seen in 40 years of available records - a 3.8 quake that was recorded in November 1999. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • The earthquake occurred hours after a powerful quake killed hundreds in Turkey and Syria. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • Dehai News -- Quake info: Strong mag. (dehai.org)
  • Quake info: Strong mag. (dehai.org)
  • The event stands out against other earthquakes in the area for two reasons: One, the magnitude is higher than the average Yellowstone quake. (wakeupwyo.com)
  • Two, only five quakes above a level 3 magnitude had originated from the area since 1962, according to U of U. The last earthquake to reach a similar magnitude to yesterday's happened on March 28, 2005, when a 4.2 quake shook the National Park. (wakeupwyo.com)
  • TOKYO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 7.9 earthquake rattled northeastern Japan on Friday and up to six-metre tsunami alert was issued after the powerful quake. (millenniumweekend.org)
  • In photo released by Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers inspect a school damaged by earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. (koaa.com)
  • A man cleans up rubble after an earthquake at Sayeh Khosh village in Hormozgan province in Iran, some 620 miles south of the capital Tehran on July 2, 2022. (ksfr.org)
  • An estimated 21,000 people near the epicenter may have felt "moderate" to "strong" shaking, according to the USGS. (bnonews.com)
  • earthquake.usgs.gov. (wikipedia.org)
  • For more information regarding Yellowstone's Earthquake activity, visit the USGS by clicking here . (wakeupwyo.com)
  • This afternoon the USGS reported a magnitude 6.3 earthquake centered 10 km WNW of Týrnavos, Greece. (argophilia.com)
  • While several injuries occurred as a result of the earthquake, there have been no fatalities. (accuweather.com)
  • Buildings in the greater Tokyo area, 250 kilometers away, were also swaying for a long time as a result of the earthquake. (bioprepwatch.com)
  • Thousands of people have been isolated in that part of the country as the electricity grid has been disconnected as a result of the earthquake, so work is also under way to repair it. (bayradio.fm)
  • A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the city of Ridgecrest, California on July 5, making it the most severe earthquake that southern California had been hit with since 1999. (accuweather.com)
  • The observation of strong ground motion and aftershock sequences as well as the investigation of the destruction from these earthquakes, which include the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, and the 2001 Gujrat earthquake, among others, provide seismology and earthquake engineering with informative and valuable data, experiences and lessons, and raise some important scientific problems. (iaspei.org)
  • This story has been corrected to show that the earthquake was the strongest in the region since 1999, not in 40 years. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • Theoretical and observational studies suggest that between-event variability in the median ground motions of larger (M ≥ 5) earthquakes is controlled primarily by the dynamic properties of the earthquake source, such as Brune-type stress drop. (scec.org)
  • The earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 was centered in rural Bingol province at struck at 3:55 a.m. (0135 GMT), toppling several buildings that had been badly damaged in Saturday's magnitude 5.7 temblor, officials said. (pravda.ru)
  • A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has struck eastern Tajikistan, with shaking felt as far away as China and other neighboring countries, seismologists say. (bnonews.com)
  • Worthy News ) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck northern Peru early Sunday, damaging some buildings and blocking several roads with rubble. (worthynews.com)
  • In January 2021, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake killed more than 100 people and injured nearly 6,500 in West Sulawesi province. (koaa.com)
  • The 2021 Assam earthquake struck 11 km (7 miles) away from Dhekiajuli, Assam, India at 07:51 (IST) on April 28, 2021 with a moment magnitude of 6.0 at 34.0 km (21.1 mi) depth. (wikipedia.org)
  • ISLAMABAD - A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same province. (wmfe.org)
  • Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (wrbl.com)
  • ISLAMABAD (AP) - The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 2,000, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • A powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the country's national disaster authority said. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • An earthquake survivor has told of his loss of 26 family members as rescuers resort to digging by hand in villages rased to the ground in eastern Afghanistan. (sky.com)
  • It is essential to demonstrate solidarity with the victims of the earthquake in Afghanistan. (lu.se)
  • According to the US Geology Survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was some 49 km northwest of Bologna. (novinite.com)
  • The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Atlas Mountains between Marrakesh and the coastal city of Agadir. (houstonianonline.com)
  • We have identified surface ruptures of M ≥ 6 earthquakes on a branch of the propagating reverse fault system that produced the strongest event recorded in France during the twentieth century (1909 Lambesc earthquake, Provence). (geoscienceworld.org)
  • In Assam's capital, Gauhati, people rushed outdoors as they felt strong tremors and buildings swaying. (news5cleveland.com)
  • At least five strong tremors struck the city around noon, Herat city resident Abdul Shakor Samadi said. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • It was there the team noticed deep tremors, a type of slow earthquake that typically recurs in days- or weeks-long cycles. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The earthquakes on Oct. 7 flattened whole villages in Herat, in one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (wmfe.org)
  • But Abdul Wahid Rayan, spokesman at the Ministry of Information and Culture, said the death toll from the earthquake in Herat is higher than originally reported. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • Photo: World Vision proac ve measures in responding to the earthquake- affected popula on in Herat. (who.int)
  • A strong earthquake measuring 7.1, according to the National Seismological Institute, shook Mexico City and nearby areas late Tuesday (7), officials said, with no injuries or damage reported so far. (catholictranscript.org)
  • Residents in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, ran out of their homes in panic as the earthquake hit the region, but there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or damage. (news5cleveland.com)
  • Fortunately, we have no earthquake related injuries either -and I pray that remains the case," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said in a statement. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • Two people in the Kamrup Metro and Nagaon districts died of heart attacks caused by the earthquake while 12 others suffered injuries. (wikipedia.org)
  • After Southern California experienced its most powerful earthquake in decades on Independence Day , an even stronger temblor shook the region late Friday. (accuweather.com)
  • There have been only 12 other earthquakes in California with a magnitude over 7.0 since 1857 . (accuweather.com)
  • On Saturday, California Governor Gavin Newsom requested a Presidential Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance to aid the communities impacted by the earthquakes. (accuweather.com)
  • In response to another large earthquake in Southern California tonight, I have activated the @Cal_OES state operation center to its highest level, and the state is coordinating mutual aid to local first responders. (accuweather.com)
  • We're transitioning to the Statewide California Earthquake Center . (scec.org)
  • We study a possibility of extrapolating attenuation relations for small earthquakes, to larger magnitudes using the data from the Garner Valley downhole array in Southern California. (scec.org)
  • [ 12 ] Although one tends to think of spores aerosolized in dust storms in Arizona and California producing outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis, an outbreak has been linked to a California earthquake. (medscape.com)
  • The earthquake left residents of central Mexico City in a state of nervousness, preserving the tragic memory of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake recorded on September 19, 2017, which shook the center of the country and left 369 people dead, most of them in the capital. (catholictranscript.org)
  • A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000. (ksfr.org)
  • Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone nations. (morningsun.net)
  • While the area is prone to earthquakes, it is generally sparsely populated, and most houses are low-rise structures. (news5cleveland.com)
  • The country is divided into four seismic zones - Zone II, III, IV and V. Zone II is the least active seismic zone which means the region is least prone to earthquake whereas zone V is seismically most active and thus make the region highly prone to earthquake. (indiatimes.com)
  • Ecuador is particularly prone to earthquakes. (wlrh.org)
  • Here, we investigate the relationship between peak ground acceleration (PGA) and dynamic stress drop for a new dataset of 5297 earthquakes that occurred in the San Francisco Bay area from 2002 through 2016. (scec.org)
  • Two other Mw 7.0+ earthquakes rocked the Assam Valley in 1869 and 1943, is believed to have been on this fault, as well as the deadly 2016 Imphal earthquake on its southern termination. (wikipedia.org)
  • The earthquake, which struck at 5:37 a.m. local time on Thursday, was centered about 66 kilometers (41 miles) west of Murghab, a small town in the Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan. (bnonews.com)
  • The LAFD has concluded the systematic survey of the City of Los Angeles by ground and air, and is pleased to report that no major infrastructure damage was noted by our personnel in the City of Los Angeles, and that there has been no loss of life or serious injury that we can directly attribute to the widely felt 8:19 PM earthquake," they said in a statement . (accuweather.com)
  • The earthquake was clearly felt over much of the region. (lifeboat.com)
  • In Peru, the earthquake was felt from its northern border with Ecuador to the central Pacific coast. (outlookindia.com)
  • Machala resident Fabricio Cruz said he was in his third-floor apartment when he felt a strong tremor and saw his television hit the ground. (outlookindia.com)
  • I felt it shook three times, but the first one was the strongest one for around 10 seconds. (koaa.com)
  • The earthquake was also felt in other big cities like Medellín and Cali. (abc4.com)
  • The earthquake was felt in many neighboring countries, the report said. (ksfr.org)
  • YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A strong earthquake struck Myanmar on Wednesday night and was felt in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh, causing residents to rush out of their homes in panic. (news5cleveland.com)
  • President-elect Nayib Bukele , who takes office on Saturday, June 1, said on Twitter that the earthquake was felt "throughout 100% of the country. (rappler.com)
  • Earthquakes were felt in most parts of the country. (houstonianonline.com)
  • County emergency services officials confirmed the earthquake was felt in at least a 30-mile radius, including in Niagara Falls, about 20 miles north of Buffalo, he said. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • Earthquake Canada, which measured a 4.2 magnitude event, reported it was felt slightly in southern Ontario. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • Small earthquakes are not unusual in upstate New York but are rarely felt as strongly. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Fukushima region, and a tsunami warning is in place. (bioprepwatch.com)
  • A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but apparently causing no significant damage. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • The earthquake comes on the heels of two record-breaking weather events in the region: A snowstorm that dropped as much as 7 feet of snow in November and a blizzard in December that is blamed for 47 deaths. (quesnelobserver.com)
  • We then develop a nonparametric ground-motion prediction equation (GMPE) appli- cable for the moderate (M 1-4) earthquakes in our study region, using a mixed-effects generalization of the Random Forest algorithm. (scec.org)
  • At least 1,000 people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region and flattened stone and mud-brick homes. (sky.com)
  • Region where a strong earthquake has not been recorded for several years, despite it has been recorded in the past. (bvsalud.org)
  • Two earthquakes recently struck the Christchurch region. (who.int)
  • These have been some of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in a century, prompting a global humanitarian response - including from WHO and other United Nations partners - at the request of the Turkish Government. (who.int)
  • The cathedral Mirandola is severely damaged after an earthquake in Mirandola, Itay 29 May 2012. (novinite.com)
  • But recent site investigations and research have shown that tunnel portal sections and tunnel body run across displaced faults are the two possible parts of a tunnel that may be damaged severely during earthquake especially strong earth quakes. (onepetro.org)
  • A magnitude 5.4 earthquake near Asmara, Central, Eritrea, was reported only 9 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. (dehai.org)
  • The area has seen several moderate earthquakes in recent weeks. (ksfr.org)
  • The earthquake caused moderate but widespread damage to nearby buildings, although no collapses were reported. (wikipedia.org)
  • The country of more than 270 million people is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. (koaa.com)
  • In some cases, earthquakes can cause tsunamis in areas along the coast. (cdc.gov)
  • Site-specific ground motion time-histories of large earthquakes can be successfully simulated using recordings of small earthquakes which are often referred to as ''empirical Green''s functions'' in seismology. (scec.org)
  • The study of strong ground motion, earthquake hazard and risk plays an important role in seismology and the sustainable development of economies and societies. (iaspei.org)
  • Using the hazard estimates produced by seismology, risk analysis yields probabilistic estimates of the expected losses of property and lives from earthquakes, which is a convolution of the hazard estimates and vulnerabilities of structures, facilities, and people distributed over the site. (iaspei.org)
  • Analysis by India's National Centre for Seismology revealed that the earthquake involved slip along the Kopili Fault, near the Main Frontal Thrust. (wikipedia.org)
  • CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) - A strong, shallow earthquake toppled buildings and walls on Indonesia's densely populated main island on Monday, killing at least 162 people and injuring hundreds of others as residents fled into the street, some covered in blood and debris. (koaa.com)
  • The earthquake occurred as a result of oblique-slip faulting at a shallow depth just at the foothills of the Himalayas. (wikipedia.org)
  • A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines. (outlookindia.com)
  • Hazard analysis requires characterization of the seismic sources that can be expected to affect a selected place in terms of locations, magnitudes, and frequency of occurrence of potentially damaging earthquakes. (iaspei.org)
  • They discovered that deep tremor started to change its behavior about two months before the occurrence of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in March 2010 in southern Taiwan. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Earthquakes are a normal occurrence in Yellowstone - after all, it is a supervolcano. (wakeupwyo.com)
  • The risk assessment process in the 2010 earthquake response involved a range of food safety experts gathering in Wellington to discuss likely effects of the earthquake for consumers and food businesses. (who.int)
  • A strong earthquake followed quickly by a strong aftershock shook Colombia's capital and other major cities Thursday. (abc4.com)
  • As deaths & casualties from the earthquake continue to be reported, teams are in hospitals assisting treatment of wounded & assessing additional needs," the U.N. agency said on X, formerly known as Twitter. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • The earthquake occurred in the early hours of Sunday to Monday and at first there were 21 deaths, although the figure has risen considerably in the last hours and could continue to do so throughout this Tuesday. (bayradio.fm)
  • The 2010 earthquake in Canterbury was strong yet sustained less damage than the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, which although not as strong, was more damaging and resulted in 185 deaths. (who.int)
  • An earthquake shook Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, killing a number of people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital's streets for safety. (koaa.com)
  • JAKARTA, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia's western province of Bengkulu on Tuesday evening, but there were no reports of damages or casualties, officials said. (news.cn)
  • Wellington was the scene of the country's most powerful earthquake in 1855. (straitstimes.com)
  • Authorities were looking into possible casualties and damage after a strong earthquake hit Friday afternoon near central Japan, but there were no reports of a tsunami threat. (morningsun.net)
  • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador on Thursday, May 30, near the capital but authorities said there were no initial reports of casualties or damage. (rappler.com)
  • ing the earthquake, health officials were magnitude-7.0 earthquake. (cdc.gov)
  • It was assigned a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). (wikipedia.org)
  • The earthquake occurred shortly before midnight (local time) - about eleven years after the area in the northeastern Asian island kingdom was devastated by a devastating 9-magnitude earthquake and the resulting massive tsunami. (bioprepwatch.com)
  • A small tsunami struck the Seferihisar district south of Izmir, the city in western Turkey that was the worst affected, said Haluk Ozener, director of the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. (thejournal.ie)
  • The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of a tsunami on Saturday after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake registered in the north-east coast of the country. (positivelyscottish.scot)
  • This earthquake and tsunami warning comes days after Japan celebrated the 10th anniversary of the horrific 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011, which caused a devastating tsunami and nuclear accident at the Fukushima plant. (positivelyscottish.scot)
  • Shelters that were open after the earthquake shook the county took in a little under 200 people, Ghilarducci said in a press conference held Saturday morning. (accuweather.com)
  • Saturday's earthquake damaged more than 200 hundred buildings and injured 16 people, according to the prime minister's office. (pravda.ru)
  • Mexico City was devastated by earthquakes in September 1985, which left more than 10,000 people dead. (catholictranscript.org)
  • TEHRAN, Iran - Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported. (ksfr.org)
  • In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. (ksfr.org)
  • Christchurch, New Zealand, is now best known to many people for the earthquakes that occurred in September 2010 and February 2011 - the latter killing 185 people. (who.int)
  • A young girl looks on as CDC staff meet with camp leaders in the Aviation camp in working in Port au Prince, Haiti, 5 weeks after the earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people in the city. (cdc.gov)
  • As a doctor at the last of the US Army's MASH field hospitals external icon , she shipped out to Pakistan in 2005 after an earthquake that killed more than 80,000 people. (cdc.gov)
  • In their wake, the earthquakes left a grow- virus outbreak strains, Washington, USA. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2015, with the exception of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa and the Nepal earthquake, WHO's grading was aligned with that of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee system. (who.int)
  • Failures of this part may block roads, which greatly influences the transportation of the local area after earthquake. (onepetro.org)
  • A police officer looks up next to a car crushed by debris after an earthquake shook Cuenca, Ecuador, on Saturday. (wlrh.org)
  • Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which lies atop active fault lines. (pravda.ru)
  • A safety audit policy to protect the buildings from earthquakes has been draft by the MCD and has been sent to the Delhi government. (indiatimes.com)
  • These efforts have resulted in a significant expansion of knowledge in hazard analysis, the behavior of structural systems during earthquakes, the socio-economic impacts of earthquakes and earthquake countermeasures. (iaspei.org)
  • Although deep tremor was first reported in 2002, scientists have not found many cases in which behavior changed before large earthquakes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • WELLINGTON (AFP) - A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rattled New Zealand on Monday, swaying buildings and spilling goods from shelves, but authorities said there were no immediate reports of major damage. (straitstimes.com)
  • Japan is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the most actively operating areas on the planet, but its construction standards are strict so that buildings can withstand strong earthquakes. (positivelyscottish.scot)
  • Damaged buildings, damaged power lines, and leaking gas and water lines are just a few of the hazards you might face after an earthquake. (cdc.gov)
  • Earthquakes can damage buildings and make them unsafe. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to possibly identifying the 1909 earthquake surface rupture, by recognizing successive surface breaks of large earthquakes, this study calls for a reassessment of seismic hazard in Provence. (geoscienceworld.org)
  • Large cooling towers in thermal power plants and nuclear power plants are likely to suffer from strong earthquakes during service periods. (techscience.com)
  • This paper is therefore focused on an elaborate numerical investigation to the earthquake-induced collapses of a large cooling tower structure. (techscience.com)
  • But in recent years, more and more research has found that large earthquakes in subduction zones are often preceded by foreshocks and slow earthquakes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • So, we decided to use them as stress meters to monitor local variations in stress build-up and release before and after large earthquakes. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The large 8.6 Mw Assam-Tibet earthquake in 1950 was a megathrust earthquake that resulted from a rupture along the Main Himalayan Thrust and Main Frontal Thrust. (wikipedia.org)
  • Additional food safety risks were identified in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake due to the use of large-scale catering for rescue workers, volunteers and residents unable to return home. (who.int)
  • Additional action during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake response included making contact with food businesses using checklists and principles developed in the first response and having regular contact with those providing catering for large numbers. (who.int)
  • We identified the increase in tremor duration three weeks before the earthquake, but we initially could not draw conclusions because tremor rates increase all the time and for different reasons. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Hundreds of aftershocks have followed this powerful earthquake. (accuweather.com)