Sentence examples for a large-scale earthquake from inspiring English sources

These two soil boxes are intended to simulate the kinds of forces and displacements that we would expect to see applied to a buried pipeline in a large-scale earthquake event.

While Japan may have been the best prepared nation to deal with a large-scale earthquake, there is no way any country could prepare for and deal with an 8.9-magnitude earthquake.

In other words, the process leading to the Fukushima accident was initiated not by a large-scale earthquake, but by a power structure of close relationships between governors, industry, and media stretching over decades.

They also all cross the San Andreas Fault and could be catastrophically ruptured in a large-scale earthquake.

Months before publishing 1989's Liar's Poker, the canonical account of life inside 1980s Wall Street, Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, wrote an article on the prospect of Japan being rocked by a large-scale earthquake -- and what it would mean for the global economy.

This earthquake drill was planed on the supposition that a strong and large-scale earthquake occurred in a mountainous area and all possible communication networks to this area become unavailable.

Nonetheless, nationally funded large-scale earthquake prediction programs always emphasize the need to reinforce seismometer networks.

Haiti earthquake of 2010, large-scale earthquake that occurred January 12 , 2010 on the West Indian island of Hispaniola, comprising the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Kōbe earthquake of 1995, also called Great Hanshin earthquake, Japanese in full Hanshin-Awaji Daishinsai ("Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster"), (Jan . 17 , 1995large-scale earthquake in the Ōsaka-Kōbe (Hanshin) metropolitan area of western Japan that was among the strongest, deadliest, and costliest to ever strike that country.

One is the large-scale execution of workflows, which was one of the first capabilities incorporated in WINGS to support large-scale earthquake simulations [ 37].

The article, entitled "How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street and the World Economy" and appearing in now-defunct Manhattan Inc., contended not only that a large-scale Japanese earthquake was inevitable -- "A big quake has hit Tokyo roughly every 70 years for four centuries," he wrote -- but that the Japanese government wasn't taking adequate precautions against such a prospect.