Sentence examples for earthquake close from inspiring English sources

"As Haitians prepare for the first anniversary of the earthquake, close to one million people are reportedly still displaced.

21 Directly after the earthquake, close to $100 million U.S. dollars was received just for the temporary provision of WASH services to IDPs living in temporary improvised settlements in and around Port-au-Prince.

The maximum observed right lateral displacement on the Imperial fault measured within the first day of the event to the northwest of the epicenter was 55-60 cm, but measurements taken five months following the earthquake closer to the southeast end of the rupture showed there was an additional 29 cm of postseismic slip (for a total slip of 78 cm.

She said that while Colorado had experienced several earthquakes close to Monday's size in recent decades — a magnitude 5.3 near Denver in 1967 and a magnitude 5.7 in the state's northwest corner in 1973 — both of those quakes were ultimately determined to have been caused by human activity, from explosives or drilling.

But North American horror stories of fracking polluting the aquifers that hold drinking water were dramatically trumped in the UK last spring when one of the first shale gas fracking operations on British soil was halted after it triggered two earthquakes close to Blackpool.

Many of the focal mechanisms (especially, normal fault and strike-slip fault) we computed have nodal planes oriented subparallel to geologic boundaries (Fig. 5b), which was not clear in the F-net data, although some earthquakes close to the BTL seem to have catalog nodal planes subparallel to tectonic lines (Fig. 5a).

Our finding of the occurrence of earthquakes close to the hypocenter of the M7.3 quake (Fig. 5), combined with the reduction of normal pressure on the Futagawa FZ (NIED 2016), indicates growth of a quasi-static pre-slips before the M7.3 quake.

Wondoloski scored on a first-half penalty kick Saturday night as the San Jose Earthquakes closed the regular season with a 1-1 tie against the Portland Timbers.

The testing sequence involved two different shaking scenarios, representing particularly destructive earthquake motions either preceded or followed by earthquakes closer to those against which the pier was designed.

Several people have been injured and a cliff has collapsed into the sea on New Zealand's South Island after a "severe" magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck close to Christchurch, which is still rebuilding following a devastating tremor in 2011.

On April 25, 2015 (UTC), the Gorkha earthquake occurred close to Katmandu.