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and northern Chile for zones bounded by 5–35° S latitude. Tsunamigenic earthquake estimates yield magnitudes of 8.52, 8 … the next strong earthquake and tsunami will occur between 19 and 28° S in the vicinity of northern Chile. Copyright … between earthquake magnitudes and tsunamis, we estimate expected tsunami wave heights for various return periods. The average …
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Aseismic crustal-strain signals prior to the 2003 Mw 6.8 Chengkung, 2006 Mw 6.1 Taitung, and 2008 Mw 5.0 Antung earthquakes with epicenters located 20, 55 and 11 km, respectively, from the Antung radon-monitoring station have been calculated using the radon anomalies recorded. Specifically,...
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On 30 September 2009 at 05:16 pm local time (10:16 am UTC), a major earthquake registering a magnitude M <Subscript … seismic gaps suggest another earthquake with a magnitude greater than 8.7 may occur, these observations are particularly … significant. One of the vital features of this earthquake was a number of very large and devastating landslides that occurred in …
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seismic solicitation (assuming an M6 earthquake at 10 km distance). The second aerial bridge, the three levels arches Pont du … differential static stress of 4 MPa or greater, which can only be achieved very close to the fault rupture of a M > 6 earthquake …
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1 as proposed for Jordan by several authors. Time-history analysis was made using the El Centro (N-S) earthquake record … of May 1940 as an actual earthquake excitation. The response reduction factor (R) that primarily consists of two factors …
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On March 20th, 2006, a moderate earthquake (M<Subscript>w</Subscript> = 5.2) struck the Laalam (NE-Algeria). The damage … peoples homeless. Damage and casualties are directly related to an earthquake-induced landslide occurred at 10 km far from the … time where the landslide was activated extends back to 1974 following another moderate earthquake. This landslide reminds …
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Satellite thermal infrared images contain valuable earthquake precursor information. Past studies concluded that such … information appeared only a few days or dozens of days before an earthquake would occur. In our study, though, we observed that … the time intervals between the thermal infrared precursor and an earthquake’s occurrence can be up to 10 years. An …
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variability of the earthquake rupture process, (2) specify 25 deterministic earthquake sources, and (3) use resulting vertical … inundation lines that express the confidence level (percentage) that a Cascadia tsunami will not exceed the line. Ninety …
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examine this differentiation, this paper studied the 2009 Yao’an earthquake in China. Surveys of 200 destroyed rural … households were conducted in field investigations and follow-ups at 1 month, 1 year, and 1.5 years after the earthquake. The … of recovery is useful in understanding post-earthquake recovery processes and calls for taking group differentiation …
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that electrically active clouds are produced in an atmosphere above the sea on the eve of earthquake. These electrically …
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