• The earthquake-the strongest in Japan in 140 years-struck 81 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of Sendai at 2:46 p.m. local time, the LA Times reported. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The 7.6-magnitude earthquake which struck western Mexico on Monday caused a seiche up to 1.2 meter (4 feet) high in Devils Hole at California's Death Valley, officials said on Wednesday night. (bnonews.com)
  • The National Park Service released footage of the waves on Wednesday night and said they were caused by the earthquake in western Mexico, which struck roughly 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) away. (bnonews.com)
  • Off the coast of northeastern Japan, a significant earthquake and tsunami struck in March 2011. (soundseismic.com)
  • "I hereby request an Emergency Declaration for Direct Federal Assistance for California as a result of the July 4 and July 5 earthquakes that struck in Kern County and severely impacted Kern and San Bernardino counties , " Newsom wrote in a letter. (anonews.co)
  • Just 18 hours after the tsunami, a foot-high wave struck the ice shelf in Antarctica and broke off giant pieces. (ibtimes.com)
  • Lorella Palmer from south-east London was with her boyfriend in their hotel room in Marrakesh when the earthquake struck. (yahoo.com)
  • HONOLULU (AP) - A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was the strongest of a series of temblors that struck Friday on Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on the planet that scientists say is in a "state of heightened unrest. (ktar.com)
  • A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. (yahoo.com)
  • AGADIR, Morocco (AP) - Morocco's qualifying game for the African Cup of Nations was postponed on Saturday in the wake of the earthquake that struck the country , killing more than 1,000 people. (yahoo.com)
  • The earthquake that struck late Friday night also damaged buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. (yahoo.com)
  • John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with National Resources Canada, tweeted images showing shaking on Vancouver Island when a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck California Tuesday (Dec. 20). (todayinbc.com)
  • The earthquake struck at a depth of 40 km from the surface at 2:24 AM according to Indian time. (rkreviewzone.com)
  • Japan struck by earthquake and tsunami - in pictures also comes from The Guardian. (edublogs.org)
  • WELLINGTON, New Zealand , November 14, 2016 (ENS) - A severe earthquake struck just after three o'clock Monday morning local time near New Zealand's South Island. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The current event is the largest in the region since June 1929 when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck 100 km to the northwest. (ens-newswire.com)
  • In January 1994 when the Northridge earthquake, a magnitude 6.7 quake, struck Southern California, causing an estimated $26.4 billion (in 2018 dollars) in insured losses, the insurance industry ended up paying out more in claims for this quake than it had collected in earthquake premiums over the preceding 30 years. (iii.org)
  • the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake. (studystack.com)
  • Using seismic observations and a model for local fjord behavior, they find that in this case the seiching was triggered by S waves, which travel through Earth's body, and later was amplified by Love waves, which travel on Earth's surface. (phys.org)
  • Scientists learned that Earth's core has separate liquid and solid layers by studying the waves produced by earthquakes. (britannica.com)
  • Plate tectonics tells you where earthquakes are most likely to occur, and the geophysics of the Earth's crust tells you the different types of faults that cause these quakes, but neither of these tells you where the energy for these quakes comes from. (scienceblogs.com)
  • And since angular momentum is conserved and the Earth's angular velocity changes, that tells us that with each earthquake, the Earth's moment of inertia must change , too. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Each big earthquake that causes an ~1 microsecond speed-up in the Earth's rotational day is the equivalent of moving some ten billion tons of uranium from the Earth's surface all the way to the center of the inner core! (scienceblogs.com)
  • Earthquakes happen when rock below the Earth's surface moves abruptly. (windows2universe.org)
  • Most earthquakes happen at or near the boundaries between Earth's tectonic plates because that's where there is usually a large concentration of faults. (windows2universe.org)
  • Since earthquakes happen along faults and most faults are near plate boundaries, the yellow dots in the animation are found mostly at the boundaries between Earth's tectonic plates. (windows2universe.org)
  • An earthquake is a sudden and rapid shaking of the earth caused by the breaking and shifting of rock beneath the earth's surface. (iii.org)
  • CORRECTS NAME OF THE VILLAGE - A man stands next to a damaged hotel after the earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, near the epicentre of the earthquake, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (yahoo.com)
  • A man drives past a damaged wall of the historic Medina of Marrakech, after after an earthquake in Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (yahoo.com)
  • JFNA retains discretion and control over all contributions to its Jewish Federations 2023 Morocco Earthquake Relief Fund. (jotform.com)
  • Tsunamis, also known as seismic sea waves, are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, or meteorite. (cdc.gov)
  • A tsunami is a series of huge ocean waves created by an underwater disturbance. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Washington is still at risk from tsunamis brought by by earthquakes or underwater volcano eruptions thousands of miles away. (soundseismic.com)
  • Harold Tobin, who has spent decades researching subducting faults and tsunamis, said that when people hear about one to three foot waves, they tend to assume it's not a huge concern because he regularly encounters waves that size. (soundseismic.com)
  • a mild tremor preceding the violent shaking movement of an earthquake. (studystack.com)
  • Israel will create a controlled explosion of 80 tons of explosive material, which will simulate the intensity of a tremor after an earthquake of Magnitude 3. (effedieffe.com)
  • A 7.3-magnitude Earthquake tremor was felt in Alaska, USA. (rkreviewzone.com)
  • Large earthquakes in 2012, 2018 and 2019 also caused waves at Devils Hole. (bnonews.com)
  • Twenty-three percent of homeowners who had homeowners insurance responding to the 2020 Triple-I Consumer Poll said they had earthquake insurance, up from 15 percent in 2018. (iii.org)
  • The earthquake source is located at the shallow part near the Smith caldera, a volcanic body on the shallow ridge along the Izu-Bonin trench, where three similar earthquakes occurred in 1984, 1996 and 2006 (Satake and Gusman, 2015, SSJ). (atlas.jp)
  • These P waves are able to travel through both solid rock, such as granite mountains, and liquid material, such as volcanic magma or the water of the oceans. (ranker.com)
  • Causes include earthquakes , landslides, volcanic eruptions , or meteorites--chunks of rock from space that strike the surface of Earth. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Natural earthquakes of a similar intensity occur in the Middle East region about once a week, without the public feeling them. (effedieffe.com)
  • A significant earthquake is predicted to occur within the next 50 years, according to experts. (soundseismic.com)
  • These faults, and historic seismicity, indicate that damaging earthquakes can occur there in the future. (usgs.gov)
  • p>First, the earthquake must occur within an 'aftershock zone', which is usually defined as the region within one fault-rupture length of the mainshock rupture surface or the area defined by seismologists based on previous aftershock activity. (theguardian.com)
  • The earthquake and its aftershocks were felt as far away as Tokyo , about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the epicenter. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • For example, the 2011 Japan earthquake (including aftershocks) shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds, the 2010 Chile earthquake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds, and the 2004 Sumatra quake shortened the day by an astounding 6.8 microseconds ! (scienceblogs.com)
  • Earthquake is among the most devastating natural disasters causing severe economical, environmental, and social destruction. (mdpi.com)
  • Waves hit after powerful aftershock rocks northern coastline day after Tuesday's magnitude-8.2 quake, navy says. (aljazeera.com)
  • As it turns out, people on Twitter move news of the quake faster than shock waves rumble through rock. (yahoo.com)
  • The epicentre of the quake is about 800 km from Toronto, meaning even if the waves travelled at their fastest rate, it would still take one-minute and 40 seconds for people in Canada's largest city to feel anything. (yahoo.com)
  • Pacific time on Monday, about 22 minutes after the quake, when waves began to form inside the cave at Death Valley National Park on the California-Nevada state line. (bnonews.com)
  • The Tohoku quake off of coastal Japan that spawned a tsunami and wreaked havoc on land also triggered waves all the way up to the ionosphere, one of the highest layers of the atmosphere, creating ripples in electrically charged particles nearly 220 miles above Earth. (ibtimes.com)
  • Today's quake is about 100 km (60 miles) to the north of the city of Christchurch, which was severely damaged by a series of large earthquakes in 2010-2015, including a magnitude 7.0 quake to the west of Christchurch in September 2010, and a magnitude 6.1 directly beneath the city in February 2011. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Insurers that don't sell earthquake insurance may still be impacted by these catastrophes due to losses from fire following a quake. (iii.org)
  • A man from Hull helping those caught up in the Morocco earthquake has described how 'everything shook' at the terrifying moment the disaster hit. (yahoo.com)
  • Londoners in Morocco during last week's earthquake have shared their experiences of falling houses and panic. (yahoo.com)
  • Morocco star player Achraf Hakimi took to social media to offer his condolences to victims of the earthquake. (yahoo.com)
  • Following Friday's devastating earthquake in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Jewish Federations, together with our partners, are responding. (jotform.com)
  • Generally know about the Richter magnitude scale, which indicates the intensity of earthquakes on a 1 to 10 (base-10 logarithmic) scale. (teachengineering.org)
  • The two earthquakes occurred within 24 seconds of each other creating shaking of longer duration and possibly greater intensity than either of the earthquakes would have created on their own. (ktar.com)
  • This was the second earthquake faced by California residents in just two days. (anonews.co)
  • For the second earthquake that caused damage on Nias, we estimate M S ≈ 7 based on seismograms and phase data. (springer.com)
  • She said power had been cut following the aftershock and fears were being pushed on radio that larger earthquakes were on their way. (aljazeera.com)
  • Shaking from the larger earthquakes may have been strong enough to do minor local damage, especially to older buildings," the observatory's statement said. (ktar.com)
  • This earthquake may be regarded as a tsunami earthquake. (atlas.jp)
  • However, unusually for a tsunami earthquake, the shaking on Nias was severe (7 EMS). (springer.com)
  • The first we interpret to be a tsunami earthquake with characteristic low levels of shaking, an estimated average seismic moment ( M 0 ) of 2.5 × 10 28 dyn cm ( M W ≈ 8.2) in the frequency band 6-8 mHz, and an epicentral location close to the front of the Sunda Megathrust. (springer.com)
  • Twitter also commented on the speed writing: 'We can't speak to the speed of seismic waves, but a tweet can reach your followers in less than a second. (yahoo.com)
  • p>Seismologists label an earthquake as an aftershock using two guidelines. (theguardian.com)
  • p>An earthquake that meets these two specific criteria is considered an aftershock. (theguardian.com)
  • In an earthquake the ground suddenly shakes. (theconversation.com)
  • PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California at San Diego put a single-story house to the test on January 26 via a series of strong simulated earthquake shakes. (phys.org)
  • The Earth shook violently - an earthquake. (windows2universe.org)
  • A strong earthquake shook a rural stretch of northern California early Tuesday, jolting residents awake, cutting off power to 70,000 people, and damaging some buildings and a roadway, officials said. (todayinbc.com)
  • John Bellini, a geophysicist with the USGS, says that there have been over 4,700 earthquakes since Thursday. (anonews.co)
  • Hundreds of responses on the USGS earthquakes website reported feeling varying degrees of shaking across the vast island. (ktar.com)
  • Scientists have traditionally thought that seiching is caused by seismic surface waves, but the authors find that the fjord seiching was initiated before the surface waves had arrived. (phys.org)
  • We propagate surface waves over large distances (up to 50 km), an exercise that requires about 10 grid points per minimum desired wavelength to achieve good agreement with the reference solution. (scec.org)
  • We assumed a tsunami source on the Smith caldera and applied the ray equations for seismic surface waves on spherical Earth (e.g. (atlas.jp)
  • We also urge caution against an over-reliance on the S'mong legend for tsunami evacuation as its premise, that a tsunami will only follow an earthquake with very severe ground motions, is rendered ineffective for tsunami earthquakes. (springer.com)
  • identify the cause of the waves-the powerful magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake that hit off the coast of Japan half an hour earlier. (phys.org)
  • Hydro-Acoustic Wave Generation during the Tohoku-Oki 2011 Earthquake" by A. Abdolali, James T. Kirby et al. (uri.edu)
  • We investigate the surface gravity and hydro-acoustic wave fields, generated by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki tsunamigenic event using a numerical model based on a computationally efficient depth-integrated equations for a compressible water column coupled to a dissipative sedimentary layers. (uri.edu)
  • The magnitute 9 Tohoku Earthquake, which released a giant tsunami on Japan's coastal land, rattled the ionosphere, and almost reached out to space. (ibtimes.com)
  • Well, guess what we notice about the Earth after each-and-every measurable earthquake? (scienceblogs.com)
  • Students learn how engineers build shake tables that simulate the ground motions of the Earth caused by seismic waves in order to test the seismic performance of buildings. (teachengineering.org)
  • Explain the role of shake tables for engineers who design structures to withstand the motions caused by seismic waves. (teachengineering.org)
  • On 3 May 2015 (JST), an M5.7 earthquake occurred near Torishima Island and generated abnormally larger tsunami, compared to its magnitude, with heights as large as 60 cm at Hachijo Island, 180 km to the north of the epicenter. (atlas.jp)
  • Tsunami waves caused by the 2015 earthquake were recorded by a temporary ocean bottom array of water pressure gauges, 100 km to the NNE from the epicenter. (atlas.jp)
  • A United States Navy military base that is located near the epicenter of the earthquake reportedly sustained structural damage, and was quickly evacuated. (anonews.co)
  • NASA scientists were able to observe for the first time the powerful force of an earthquake as it calved off large icebergs a full hemisphere away from the epicenter. (ibtimes.com)
  • It was 100 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake. (rkreviewzone.com)
  • If you evacuate upstream along the river, the tidal wave may chase you. (go.jp)
  • The biggest earthquake in Japan's history Friday sparked three-story tsunami waves, hundreds of casualties, and towering infernos. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Monday's waves, technically known as a seiche, stirred the sediment and rocks on the shallow shelf, also removing much of the algae growth," the park said in a statement on late Wednesday. (bnonews.com)
  • Determination of magnitude for large shallow earthquakes 1898-1917. (springer.com)
  • This report describes the various types of volcano and earthquake hazards in the Crater Lake area, estimates of the likelihood of future events, recommendations for mitigation, and a map of hazard zones. (usgs.gov)
  • Within a minute of today's #earthquake, there were more than 40,000 earthquake-related Tweets,' the company wrote after the event. (yahoo.com)
  • On several occasions large earthquakes have preceded past eruptions of Mauna Loa, though these have typically been larger than today's earthquakes. (ktar.com)
  • More than 2,000 people have died following the 6.8 magnitude earthquake on Friday , which had an epicentre 44 miles (71km) from capital Marrakesh. (yahoo.com)
  • If you feel an earthquake you are feeling sudden changes in your motion through space. (theconversation.com)
  • When you boil it down, despite the simplicity of classification, earthquakes are all about three basic types of elastic waves. (ranker.com)
  • Weirdest moment: Seeing the people I'm following in DC tweet 'earthquake' seconds before I felt it here in NYC,' tweeted Allison Kilkenny . (yahoo.com)
  • a smaller earthquake following the main shock of a large earthquake. (studystack.com)
  • Shock waves travel at a speed of about two to eight kilometres per second. (yahoo.com)
  • Due to this shock, small waves of Tsunami Waves were also seen on the coast of Alaska. (rkreviewzone.com)
  • Once the first shock wave ceased, she and the Physical Security Officer (Cliff Ivey) checked on staff. (cdc.gov)
  • If a liquid is sheared sideways or twisted, it will not spring back, hence S waves can only move through solids like rock. (ranker.com)
  • Sound is a wave of vibration that we normally hear passing through the air, but we can also hear under water and through solids. (theconversation.com)
  • The occurrence of the Japanese earthquake?induced seiches depended on the period and orientation of the seismic waves aligning with the natural frequency and orientation of the body of water. (phys.org)
  • Probability of occurrence of earthquakes in a region, defined as the chance of a certain level of ground vibration caused by an earthquake. (bvsalud.org)
  • Describe the relationship between the wavelength and frequency of a wave. (teachengineering.org)
  • Researchers describe extraordinary "chorus waves" around other planets of our solar system. (gfz-potsdam.de)
  • In a recent study to be published in Nature Communications , the authors describe extraordinary chorus waves around other planets in our solar system. (gfz-potsdam.de)
  • From food and critical supply distribution to urgent medical resources, your support will help us to reach and provide life-saving assistance to thousands of earthquake survivors from the Jewish community and beyond in the critical weeks ahead. (jotform.com)
  • This method may be also applicable for tsunami forecasting including subsequent shorter waves due to dispersive effects with small numerical computation costs. (atlas.jp)
  • Houses burn amid flood waters on Friday after a massive magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami . (nationalgeographic.com)
  • NOTE TO READERS: All new updates to this list after March 11th can be found at another post, Useful Updates On Japan Earthquake - Part Two . (edublogs.org)
  • I'm leaving for school in a few minutes today but, after just learning about the terrible Japanese earthquake and tsunami that has hit Japan, I thought I'd bring together a few resources and add more later. (edublogs.org)
  • Massive earthquake hits Japan is from The Boston Globe's Big Picture. (edublogs.org)
  • Earthquake in Japan is series of photos from The Atlantic. (edublogs.org)
  • Japan earthquake: How the Japan tsunami unfolded is a BBC video. (edublogs.org)
  • Earthquake in Japan: Path of destruction is an interactive from The Washington Post. (edublogs.org)
  • Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan comes from The New York Times Learning Network. (edublogs.org)
  • Japan earthquake: tsunami warning across Pacific ocean is a very accessible series of resources from the CBBC Newsround. (edublogs.org)
  • Captured: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami are photos from The Denver Post. (edublogs.org)
  • Six Ways You Can Help Earthquake and Tsunami Victims in Japan comes from TIME Magazine. (edublogs.org)
  • In the last few years, the Geophysical Institute has created several earthquake simulations in order to calibrate its equipment. (effedieffe.com)
  • In order to understand the importance of incorporating topography into regional seismic wave propagation simulations, we compare simulations covering a region of the San Jacinto mountains against simulations with a planar free surface. (scec.org)
  • The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the tsunami wave activity on the Chile coast on Thursday reached a height of 0.7 metres. (aljazeera.com)
  • Small tsunami waves were also recorded along Mexico's Pacific coast, most notably in Manzanillo, where several streets were flooded. (bnonews.com)
  • OLYMPIA, Wash. - Newly released maps from the Washington Department of Natural Resources provide insight into what the coast of Washington may experience following a 9.0 earthquake. (soundseismic.com)
  • A fault that extends from Cape Mendocino in California all the way to British Columbia, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, saw its last magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the northwest coast on January 26, 1700. (soundseismic.com)
  • The 1867 Keelung earthquake occurred off the northern coast of Taiwan on the morning of December 18 with a magnitude of 7.0. (wikipedia.org)
  • NASA scientists were able to observe for the first time the powerful effects of an earthquake and tsunami combined, which broke off large icebergs a hemisphere away off the coast of Antarctica. (ibtimes.com)
  • On 4 January 1907, an earthquake occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with an instrumental surface-wave magnitude ( M S ) in the range of 7.5-8.0 at periods of ~ 40 s. (springer.com)
  • It also serves as a timely reminder the west coast of North America is a very active earthquake zone. (todayinbc.com)
  • This sequence of earthquakes appears to be related to readjustments along the southeast flank of Mauna Loa volcano," the observatory said. (ktar.com)
  • As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. (scienceblogs.com)
  • My colleagues and I in the newsroom started seeing tweets Tuesday about an earthquake in the U.S. and then seconds later our Toronto office started shaking. (yahoo.com)
  • While we in earthquake-prone places like California tend to get blase about the ground shaking ( aw hell, my coffee spilled! (ranker.com)
  • The earthquake occurred at 09:00 or 10:00 local time and produced shaking that lasted 15-30 seconds. (wikipedia.org)
  • We revisit the 1907 earthquake with a multidisciplinary approach by extracting evidence describing shaking effects or the tsunami from written documents and by acquiring new seismograms. (springer.com)
  • There was no shaking felt in B.C., nor a tsunami expected after the earthquake at 2:34 a.m. near Ferndale, about 345 kilometres northwest of San Francisco, just offshore and about 16 km deep. (todayinbc.com)
  • Ground shaking on #VancouverIsland as waves from this morning's M6.4 northern #California earthquake rolled across the region. (todayinbc.com)
  • It's a good reminder to check the earthquake kits and update the plan and know what to do when shaking begins," Cassidy said. (todayinbc.com)
  • Seismic waves are waves of vibration passing through the solid Earth and this is what is picked up by modern seismometers. (theconversation.com)
  • Gary Hengh, an official with the city administration, told the Anchorage Daily News that the earthquake was felt in the nearby Alaska Peninsula community near King Cove, but nothing was damaged. (rkreviewzone.com)
  • Breaking News English has a lesson for ELL's on the earthquake . (edublogs.org)
  • The experiment intends to improve the understanding of sound waves in the atmosphere. (effedieffe.com)
  • The results from the experiment will be available to the entire scientific community and is expected to make an additional contribution to scientific research of sound waves in the atmosphere and earthquakes. (effedieffe.com)