Sentence examples for earthquake impacts from inspiring English sources

Based on contemporary concern about earthquake impacts, it is desirable to undertake a different approach to understanding and predicting seismic activity in Lebanon.

In the hilly region of Nepal, earthquake impacts are more disastrous due to topographical/ridge effects, foundation type and lack of structural integrity and the Terai region is particularly susceptible to floods and flashfloods triggered by annual torrential precipitation and also earthquake impacts are widely distributed.

The reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAandand the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) have confirmed that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) survived the initial earthquake impacts, but fell victim to the following tsunami.

By expressing potential earthquake impacts in terms of potential loss of life and property through Hazus loss modeling, we believe the study will enable the state and city governments of Mérida, Venezuela to prepare proper disaster management strategy at the initial planning level.

In terms of the county resilience assessment, it was hypothesized that counties close to the epicenter would sustain more damage because of higher earthquake intensity; these counties would presumably take a longer time to recover from earthquake impacts and thus they would have a lower resilience.

More importantly, shouldn't Los Angeles immediately end all TOD in the Downtown area and -- for the life/safety considerations of its residents -- stop densification in a region of potentially devastating earthquake impacts?

"Corporations now have several excuses that seem to resonate on Wall Street, from bad weather in January to the Middle East to the Japanese earthquake impacting the supply chain or sentiment," said Adam Parker, chief United States equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, in a client note.

Documentary records suggest that there has not been a major earthquake impacting this reach since the 1733 M7.7 Dongchuan Earthquake [12].

Timber structures exhibit excellent performance under earthquake impact if all structural members and details are designed and constructed correctly.

Thus, taking smart systems into account in the structure of these bridges is essential in order to decrease earthquake impact and increase reliability of the bridges.

Specific human vulnerability curve for each available building structural type represents the damage potential of earthquake impact on the population expressed as a mean death ratio (MDR).