Sentence examples for less earthquake from inspiring English sources

But often the enemy is the moor itself, with its hidden hazards and unpredictable behaviour, including the bog-burst above Haworth in 1824 (less earthquake than landslide) that Patrick Brontë told his parishioners was a warning from God to change their sinful ways.

Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, which took the reins of power in 1997 as a more central, less earthquake-prone, and less ethnically homogenous site than the old seat of Almaty, seems to be developing a stable and satisfied population.

Qazvin Province, which is located between these two zones, suffers less earthquakes, but these may be more powerful because stresses have longer to build.

A less powerful earthquake struck the neighboring state of Maharashtra less than 10 years ago and killed thousands.

The region's present landscape is the product less of earthquake action than of three to six episodes of intense glaciation the last of which occurred about 15,000 years ago that scoured out Puget Sound and deposited great quantities of sediment that are subject to erosion, landslides, weathering, and other nonglacial processes.

The adjustment beyond this frequency is more of white noise and less of earthquake signal.

It was built to less stringent earthquake standards than exist now, Foth said.

Much less severe earthquakes have damaged at least one nuclear plant in Japan in recent years.

The significance here is less the earthquakes themselves, and more the information they're giving scientists about the deeper parts of the fault, said USGS seismologist David Shelly, who helped write the new study.

Although the previous disastrous earthquakes to Korea occurred in the backarc region, these earthquakes were all less than M8 earthquakes.

Yet the rupture area was significantly smaller than the rupture area of the less severe Sumatra earthquake of 2004.