In such a seismically unstable area, the very idea is preposterous.
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That's when the property was seismically retrofitted, and permits were upgraded.
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The freeway is blocked by collapsing overpasses, none of them seismically upgraded.
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Magnitude 5 quakes and above are not uncommon in seismically active California.
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Its ground motion, however, startled seismically-jaded Southern Californians over a wide region.
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Its ground motion, however, startled seismically jaded Southern Californians over a wide region.
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It's a seismically active region and experiences a series of earthquakes every year.
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Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active area.
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In fact, it's the most seismically-active state in the US, experts say.
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Chile, along the seismically-active Pacific Rim, is no stranger to natural disasters.
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Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas.
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The country sits on top of three tectonic plates, making it seismically active.
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She imagined a planet that had lost its moon and become seismically hyperactive.
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It is a very seismically active area, with many earthquakes and active volcanoes.
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Earthquakes of similar magnitude are not uncommon in Alaska, which is seismically active.
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Jeffrey Lewis: What we can tell, seismically, is that it was an explosion.
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Democrats are bracing for the polls to shift seismically over the next few days.
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Still, confirming that Mars is seismically active was a major thrill for Insight's team.
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Indonesia is a disaster-prone archipelago that straddles the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire".
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USGS seismologists told BuzzFeed News that the two deadly quakes this month appear unconnected seismically.
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"For the most part, Greenland is not a very seismically active area," he told Gizmodo.
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Indonesia sits on the seismically Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes.
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That uncertainty goes especially to small hydrogen bombs, which seismically can be indistinguishable from atom bombs.
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Scientists are watching the volcanic activity in real time both seismically and through live video feed.
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The region in which the dam stands is also one of the world's most seismically active.
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Both towns are about 90 miles south of Kashmir, which is a very seismically active region.
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Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire and is regularly hit by earthquakes.
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Kyushu is a seismically active, mountainous island, and home to Japan's most active volcano, Mount Aso.
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Indonesia's thousands of islands are dispersed across one of the most seismically dynamic expanses on earth.
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Monday's temblors all struck in the "Ring of Fire," one of the world's most seismically active areas.
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For a lot of parents, having a boy means something holistically, seismically different from having a girl.
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One of the most intriguing implications of Watters' discovery is that Mercury might be quite seismically active.
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Italy sits on two fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe.
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Earthquake early warning systems, or EEWs, are common in many other seismically active countries, like Japan and Mexico.
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Nissan, and others, though, are changing tack to minimize the disruption from a seismically active domestic production base.
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Italy sits on two geological fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe.
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Indonesia suffers frequent earthquakes, sometimes causing tsunamis, because it lies on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
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It was the third major earthquake registered in the especially seismically active Pacific region in just two days.
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But, in just the past five years, the meaning of the human face has quietly but seismically shifted.
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Alaska, a seismically active state, records anywhere from 80 to 100 quakes daily, most of them hardly ever noticed.
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Sitting on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia has been struck by devastating earthquakes and tsunamis before.
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Indonesia, which is on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, is all too familiar with earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Indonesia, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, is all too familiar with earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Mars also appears to be a little more seismically active than the moon, but a lot less than Earth.
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Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire" and is frequently hit by earthquakes and sometimes tsunamis.
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But many of the zones around the world where earthen architecture is prevalent also happen to be seismically active.
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But the U.S. Geological Survey report also shows that some of the city's skyscrapers may not be seismically sound.
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The seismically active area on the edge of the Pacific Ocean is home to 90 percent of the world's earthquakes.
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In a country as seismically active as Japan, it was a clear signal that geothermal energy was worth investing in.
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A new paper published this week reveals that there's more going on with the moon, seismically speaking, than we thought.
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Indonesia, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, is all too familiar with deadly earthquakes and tsunamis.
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But much of the road was built on fragile ground in one of the most seismically tumultuous places in the world.
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It's not immediately clear if the two events are seismically related, but this part of Mexico is particularly prone to earthquakes.
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Mexico is one of the most seismically active nations in the world, perched atop three clashing pieces of the Earth's crust.
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Mexico is one of the most seismically active nations in the world, perched atop three clashing pieces of the earth's crust.
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Myanmar is in a seismically active part of the world where the Indo-Australian Plate runs up against the Eurasian Plate.
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Italy sits at the intersection of two major continental plates, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe.
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The Burnside Bridge, the only seismically retrofitted of the surface street drawbridges, is also the only bridge that does not collapse.
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"We hear just enough about it in the first game to know that it was seismically important to Chloe," Garris said.
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She has a careful ear and a steady gaze on lives that quietly, seismically shift under the rapid forces of globalization.
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Indonesia lays within the seismically active "Ring of Fire" and Soputan is one of the most active volcanoes on the island.
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Even in Japan, the most seismically unstable country in the world, that fact had apparently created a false sense of security.
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Though it is tempting to be lulled into complacency during seismically quiet periods, planning ahead is still the only defense for earthquakes.
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To compile their one-year forecast, USGS scientists and engineers consider only the most seismically active areas on a short term basis.
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Sitting on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia is one of the world's most vulnerable countries to quakes and tsunamis.
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Ahead of each eruption of slag, there was a deep — I mean seismically, rock-rattle deep — rumble of a cough. Wump-wump.
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Janiele Maffei, the executive director of the program, said California has invested billions of dollars to make public buildings more seismically resilient.
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Tremors of that size are fairly common in seismically active California, and are generally considered unlikely to produce severe damage or injuries.
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Earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which is located on the seismically active "Ring of Fire" on the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
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Although Indonesia is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, the Palu tsunami came as a surprise to geophysicists.
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Armed with this knowledge, scientists can now study these deep creeps further to improve our understanding of this seismically tumultuous region of California.
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But the event proves that Mars is seismically active and that InSight might be able to pick up more quakes in the future.
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Greenland is not a particularly seismically-active area, and as far as I can tell this earthquake has not been recorded more widely.
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Japan is on the seismically active "ring of fire" around the Pacific Ocean and has building codes aimed at helping structures withstand earthquakes.
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That ranges from the simple speeding freight in Zelda's Spirit Train, to, in many cases, having the ground seismically shift beneath your feet.
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The Southeast Asian nation of 260 million, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, often experiences deadly earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which is located on the seismically active "Ring of Fire" that surrounds the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
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Japan is one of the world's most seismically active areas, accounting for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
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The latest earthquake caused no known casualties but was the strongest to hit Italy, one of the world's most seismically active countries, since 1980.
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But evidence is beginning to show that these rocky bodies stay warm, and continue to remain seismically active, for a long time, Watters said.
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Japan is one of the world's most seismically active areas, accounting for about a fifth of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
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The landslide struck the village of Tora, on the shores of Lake Albert, a seismically active zone in the western Rift Valley, on Thursday.
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Large parts of the region are seismically active because a tectonic plate, known as the Indian plate, is pushing north into the Eurasian plate.
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Bertha is the key tool in Seattle's $3.1 billion Alaskan Way Viaduct, a subterranean highway that will replace an aging, and seismically unsound, surface road.
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Indonesia straddles the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire and sees frequent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, and localized incidents like landslides, floods, and forest fires.
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But I could definitely see it being used to protect a fragile landmark in a seismically active area that might not survive more invasive construction.
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New Zealand lies in the seismically active "Ring of Fire", a 40,000 km arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Ocean.
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Chiloe, a misty, forested island popular with tourists for its traditional culture and pastoral scenery is in a seismically active zone, like much of Chile.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency had reported the quake's preliminary magnitude at 6.5, strong but not at the top of the range for seismically unstable Japan.
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The robot's mission is to measure the size of the planet's core and interior layers, and help determine how seismically active Mars is (National Geographic).
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"When the ground starts shaking, you can either pray your building is safe or know your building is seismically safe," Mr. Nazarian said by email.
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The dam projects are at risk of collapse from earthquakes in this seismically active region and of breach from flood bursts from glacial lakes upstream.
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New Zealand lies on the seismically active "Ring of Fire", a 40,000-km arc of volcanoes and ocean trenches girdling much of the Pacific Ocean.
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The Hindu Kush area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is seismically active, with quakes often felt across a region where the Indian and Eurasian continental plates collide.
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Strong earthquakes are not uncommon in seismically active Alaska, but they tend to occur in remote, sparsely populated regions where there is little or no damage.
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Most of this ridge is underwater, but parts of it, like the seismically active Reykjanes Ridge that runs right through Iceland, are visible above sea level.
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For decades experts have arrived at their calculations of shaking by observing conditions in California, Japan, Taiwan and other seismically active places and taking an average.
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Indonesia, an archipelagic nation of more than 13,13 islands, is one of the most seismically active places on earth and is regularly pummeled by natural disasters.
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Many are heavily reliant on government housing grants which are given out in tranches based on the construction of their homes meeting seismically-safe building standards.
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And now, in the very same lifetime, they are able to seismically reduce that risk — which brought so much ghoulish pain with it — for a free pill.
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Two major earthquakes in the same country within a short span of time may sound rare, but it's not a surprise in such a seismically active region.
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Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas, which accounts for a fifth of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger.
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DISASTER-PRONE Indonesia, which straddles the seismically active area known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, is one of the world's most disaster-prone countries, research shows.
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The Philippines is on the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines circling the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
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A major earthquake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed about 2,400 people and caused damage across the island, which lies in the seismically active "Pacific Ring of Fire".
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Not only is Yucca Mountain in a seismically and volcanically active region, Macfarlane told me, "it's an oxidizing environment," which would create potentially unstable conditions for nuclear waste.
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Then, this month, they returned on the Marion Dufresne research vessel to recover the seismometers, put some more into the most seismically active regions, and to conduct additional surveys.
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The zone stretching away from the Salton Sea, where the San Andreas begins, up into the southern part of the Walker Lane has been quite seismically active of late.
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The station is responsible for sending out emergency advisories, which are particularly important here along the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the most seismically active places on Earth.
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"One of the most exciting things about this study is the depth extent over which they can seismically image the water going down into the subducting plate," she told Gizmodo.
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Bali, famous for its surf, beaches and temples, is located on the Pacific ring of fire, a seismically active belt where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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"We've finally, for the first time, established that Mars is a seismically active planet," said Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator of the InSight mission, in a teleconference held on Thursday.
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According to a JCP-LGS hazard disclosure report, it is on a non-liquefaction lot that offers more stability in an earthquake than other zones in this seismically vulnerable neighborhood.
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Two time zones removed from Jakarta, it straddles one of the most seismically volatile zones on earth; many of its islands are active volcanoes rising steeply out of the sea.
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Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas, situated on the "Ring of Fire" arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Ocean.
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Both countries are on the seismically active "Ring of Fire" that circles the Pacific, but the U.S. Geological Survey says large quakes separated by such distances would probably not be related.
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Indonesia straddles the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
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And Sheeran and Future also had seismically popular singles on the Hot 100, with Future's "Mask Off" peaking at No. 5 and Sheeran's "Shape of You" topping the chart for 11 weeks.
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A map from 1794, by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni, plotted seismically active land in Naples, accompanying an illustration of the destruction of Pompeii with the figure of Thanatos, the personification of death.
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Chile itself has no nuclear power plants and is not expected to build any, as it is one of the world's most seismically active countries and is regularly shaken by strong earthquakes.
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The country straddles the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", a highly seismically active zone, where different plates on the earth's crust meet and create a large number of earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Japan lies on the "Ring of Fire" - a seismically active horsehoe-shaped band of fault lines and volcanoes around the edges of the Pacific Ocean - and has more than 100 active volcanoes.
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It is one of the most seismically active zones on the planet, and about 80% of all earthquakes strike there, said Hongfeng Yang, a seismologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Last month's devastating 29.0-magnitude quake, which killed nearly 230 people and counting in central Italy, is a reminder of the potential hazards that come with living in a seismically active region.
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The eruption was a reminder that Sulawesi, like much of Indonesia, is perched on an arc along the Pacific Ocean named the Ring of Fire, the most seismically vigorous region on earth.
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"We've finally for the first time established that Mars is a seismically active planet," Bruce Banerdt, InSight's principal investigator, said in a press call about NASA's first findings from the lander's data.
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JAKARTA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Indonesia's government and a consortium of 56 insurance companies signed on Friday the first contract to protect state assets against disasters in the seismically active Southeast Asian country.
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The membership will evolve, and it's easy to see just how seismically the Academy's most recent membership changes have made new winners possible — just ask everybody who won for Black Panther or Roma.
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Computer modeling suggested the tsunami was sparked by an earthquake in the Manila Trench, a seismically active 5,400 meter (17,700 foot) deep depression off the coast of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.
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The Philippines frequently experiences earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the AP noted, given its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a seismically active formation of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's robotic InSight lander has for the first time established that Mars is seismically active, but do not call the shaking, rattling and rolling taking place on the Red Planet earthquakes.
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One of her co-authors, Sloan Coats, noticed an unusual seismic pattern in the extremely seismically-active Cascadia Subduction Zone of the Pacific Northwest, and asked de Groot-Hedlin to modify her algorithms.
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The Philippines is prone to natural disasters, located on the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire", a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines that circles the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
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Italy is one of the most seismically active regions in Europe and the Mediterranean—in the last century, more than 223 earthquakes have shaken the country, with last week's being the strongest since 215.
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One of the most seismically active zones on the planet, it stretches from Japan and Indonesia on one side of the Pacific all the way across to California and South America on the other.
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As an architect, I have to deal daily with regulations about everything from what door handles look like, to what kind of glass we can specify, to how seismically resistant the structure will be.
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The Philippines is prone to natural disasters, located on the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines that arcs round the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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And in the end, the single tower wasn't built quite upright, and the technique used to straighten it after construction weakened the steel rods inside it, calling into question how seismically sound it was anyway.
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Wall Street is missing the forest for the trees as Apple has built a line of innovation coming that is breathtaking ranging from the seismically disruptive Apple TV, to the enormous promise of Apple Pay.
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It gave them a clearer sense of how Osho's followers were able to orchestrate an attack that few people in younger generations know even happened—and how seismically this attack altered America's conception of food safety.
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To make this happen, Perol and his colleagues trained a convolutional neural network to recognize background noise, feeding it data from seismically quiet areas, like pre-fracking era Oklahoma and the geological dead-zone of Wisconsin.
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The Philippines is prone to natural disasters arising from its location on the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire", a horseshoe-shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines that circles the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
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The network, focusing on a seismically active area known as the Guerrero Gap, would track seafloor deformation and so-called silent slips, he wrote, with the goal of mitigating the human risks of earthquakes and tsunamis.
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"But some of these particular signals that we're seeing seismically may, in fact, be caused by some interaction of the atmosphere and the ground, so watching how they change over seasons will be interesting," he said.
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It's a great new space for me in an old brick ice house built in 1898 that has been seismically retrofitted and has a few other artists and photographers, as well as many in the construction industry.
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"One of the problems in California is that it is so seismically active already that it's been difficult historically to link seismic events to particular injection projects, which is what you see in other states," said Lakewood.
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Built in the years following the devastating 1985 Mexico City earthquake that killed more than 5,000, the early warning system now includes nearly 100 monitoring stations across the most seismically active parts of southern and central Mexico.
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More than 200 people were believed to have been killed in Congo days later when another landslide struck the village of Tora on the shores of Lake Albert, a seismically active zone in the western Rift Valley.
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While earthquakes are common in Indonesia, which is on the seismically active Ring of Fire that surrounds the shores of the Pacific, a quake with a magnitude of 6.4 is considered strong and can cause severe damage.
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Quakes are common in Japan, part of the seismically active "Ring of Fire" which sweeps from the South Pacific islands, up through Indonesia, Japan, across to Alaska and down the west coast of North, Central and South America.
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Oklahoma was rocked Wednesday night by two of the state's largest earthquakes in recent years, further fueling scientists' concern that the continued burial of oil and gas wastes in seismically active areas was courting a much more powerful earthquake.
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Quakes are common in Japan, part of the seismically active "Ring of Fire" which sweeps from the South Pacific islands, up through Indonesia, Japan, across to Alaska and down the west coast of the United States and Central and South America.
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As Indonesia struggles with the aftermath of the devastating quake, the spotlight has again been shone on the apparent lack of preparedness in a sprawling archipelago that suffers regular tremors, lying on the seismically active so-called Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Even without a breakthrough by Raonic or a handful of other next-generation ordained prodigies, the men's game — driven by a familiar and popular narrative for the better part of a decade — has felt the ground shift, though not yet seismically.
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Ecuador and Japan are both located on the seismically active "Ring of Fire", which sweeps from the South Pacific islands, up through Indonesia, Japan, across to Alaska and down the west coast of the United States and Central and South America.
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Musk spent a hefty portion of the info session explaining the boring process itself using electric motors and battery packs, and what he plans to do with the massive amounts of dirt, including building seismically sound bricks and life-size Lego kits.
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The owners of one of the buildings, a 20-story building at 100 Van Ness Avenue, reached out to disclose that the building had undergone a comprehensive renovation that brought the building up to code and thus made it more seismically safe.
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Dr. Inman theorized that plate tectonics could help explain differences between the bluff-backed beaches and narrow continental shelf of the West Coast, where the Pacific Plate is sliding under North America, and those of the less seismically active East Coast, with its flat beaches.
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In a jolt that grabbed the attention of seismically jaded Californians, Friday's magnitude 7.1 temblor ruptured gas lines and sparked numerous fires in Ridgecrest, a remote town of fewer than 30,000 people in the Mojave Desert, about 125 miles (200 km) northeast of Los Angeles.
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Seven years on, Fujita and thousands like him along Japan's northeast coast have rebuilt their lives alongside huge sea walls that experts say will protect them if another giant tsunami, which some see as inevitable in a seismically active nation like Japan, was to strike.
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Earthquakes are such a fact of life in Anchorage — the most seismically active region in the country — that schools regularly drill students on preparedness and people's grandparents trade stories about surviving the destructive 1303 earthquake, whose 9.2 magnitude was the second-highest ever recorded.
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This is particularly true in areas known for their earthquakes, where tectonic activity helps determine aesthetics — Chile, for example, is one of the most seismically active countries on earth; its 1960 Valdivia earthquake, which measured 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, remains the most powerful recorded tremor in history.
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But even with the risk of new disasters in one of the world's most seismically active countries businesses have had to balance efforts to disaster proof the supply chain due to concerns of the cost of, say, storing more inventory in case of an emergency which may or may not strike.
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They have seized on the fact that Franco Barberi, a volcanologist and former government minister who is a member of a state commission that approved the project, is married to a woman who is also a volcanologist and was one of the experts who helped determine the area was seismically safe for digging.
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A target for oil drilling, the Forties Sandstone Member has been extensively studied, drilled and seismically scanned by the oil industry, allowing geologists to work out that it formed from the eroded remains of the land bridge between Scotland and Greenland that was uplifted from the Atlantic 56 million years ago, coincident with the PETM.
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R.J. Lehmann, a researcher at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes free markets, calculates that the two federally supervised mortgage finance institutions known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could lose as much as $50 billion to $100 billion in a big earthquake because they own so many uninsured mortgages in seismically risky areas like California.
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