Sentence examples for earthquake scale from inspiring English sources

"On my earthquake scale, I'm quite concerned because influenzas have a greater history of emerging and spreading," he said.

(The earthquake scale is logarithmic, so a 5.0 earthquake shakes the ground ten times more than a 4.0, and a hundred times more than a 3.0).

The equivalent figure for Chernobyl was about ten times larger still.Since the INES scale is modelled to some extent on the earthquake scale, its qualitatively assessed levels are, broadly speaking, logarithmic each is a factor of ten worse, or more severe, than the previous one.

For each of the intended structures and the studied earthquakes (see Table 1), test and trial on the earthquake scale factor was used to conform the inter-story ductility of the structure to the pre-selected inter-story target ductility (2, 3, 4, and 5 in this paper).

Sure enough, over the last two weeks, about a dozen survivors of the quake — a magnitude 7.8 or 7.9 on the modern earthquake scales that struck at 5 12 a.m. on April 18 , 1906— have been made into centennial celebrities, shuttled from opening day celebrations at the ballpark, media-frenzy lunches downtown and Tuesday morning's painfully early breakfast with Mayor Gavin Newsom.

An ensemble of 42 Chilean accelerograms recorded at the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Earthquake scaled to fifteen increasing intensities is considered.

In the light of earthquake scaling, we checked the radiation efficiency, which is defined as the radiation energy from the whole fault divided by the seismic moment.

This value is within the range of an earthquake scaling that is valid over 17 orders of seismic moment (Ide and Beroza, 2001).

Based on the earthquake scaling laws, the recurrence time for an event with M = 3 is expected to be 10 times as long as that for an event with M = 1 in a fixed tectonic setting.

White circles: Earthquakes scaled according to magnitude.

Figure 14 shows the response spectra of the Taft and El Centro earthquakes scaled to the design spectra for the low and the medium seismic loads.