Sentence examples for large-scale earthquake from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Some large-scale earthquakes do grab attention, including those in Chile and Haiti in 2010 and Japan in 2011.

In this paper, we report on the development and application of a parallel numerical methodology for simulating large-scale earthquake-induced ground motion in highly heterogeneous basins whose soil constituents can deform nonlinearly.

Thanks to the developments in the field of high-performance computing, simulations of large-scale earthquake-generation cycles, based on the driving forces of relative plate motion and the fault-friction law, can be realized.

Japan is prone to large-scale earthquakes, so the fact that researchers in this country are constantly working on the development of highly specialized rescue robots.

This is reflecting several large-scale earthquakes that have recently occurred in Japan, which killed a lot of people.