Sentence examples for earthquake lasted from inspiring English sources

The earthquake lasted approximately 50 seconds but it will upend people's lives for years.

Seismologists determined that the earthquake lasted about 500 seconds, rupturing a 1,200-km 1,200-km50-mi) segment of plaboutoundary from Sumatra, Indonesia, to the Andaman Islands, India, with maximum offsets of 15–20 m (49–66 ft).

The earthquake lasted for just 20 seconds or so, he noted, but if it was a minute or longer "we would have had casualties on an immense scale," he said.

An earthquake lasts only minutes.

Seismologists know that how long an earthquake lasts is a decent proxy for its magnitude.

The first subevent of this earthquake lasts for about 40 seconds in total, and is simple, i.e., similar to other large earthquakes we have studied (e.g., Kiser and Ishii, 2011b).

She tells us how to hide if the earthquake lasts a long time, what to do if the house falls down around us".

Most earthquake swarms at Lōihi have lasted less than two days; the two exceptions are the 1991 92 earthquake, lasting several months, and the 1996 event, which was shorter but much more pronounced.

After some centuries of quiescence, a series of earthquakes, lasting for six months and gradually increasing in violence, preceded a major eruption that took place on December 16 , 1631

If we use larger values for (tau) – which may be more physically relevant because the rupture process for typical tsunamigenic earthquakes lasts several tens of seconds we find that the shallow water model produces results closer to the full-physics simulations, especially when (L_H = 0.5 H x)).

Mr. Armani said that he had always admired "the captivating culture and the refined sense of aesthetic" of Japan and that he was "profoundly moved by the tragic events unleashed by the earthquake last March".