Sentence examples for local earthquake from inspiring English sources

Local earthquake ordinances killed the idea.

Volcano observatories can monitor local earthquake activity and the surface deformation of a potentially active volcano and make useful, if not yet precise, forecasts of eruptions.

All the walls had to be made of concrete to meet local earthquake codes, but the standards for basic plumbing and wiring are, were at best, vague, Mr. Schneider said.

When the next big local earthquake does strike along the 700-mile-long Cascadia Fault, about 60 miles offshore from here — the fault has moved, sometimes catastrophically, about every 300 years, most recently in the late 1700s — residents will have perhaps 15 minutes or so to get to high ground.

Local earthquake tomography.

In this study, a local earthquake tomography (LET) method was applied to the selected earthquake data.

Here's whom you should approach: your local earthquake-alert center.

According to Dr. Nettles, local earthquakes are often recorded but rarely felt.

It is therefore vulnerable to landsliding, to undercutting by the streams, to acceleration by local earthquakes, to debris flows".

Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times unveiled Quakebot, which was able to collate, compile and publish reports on local earthquakes before they were even over.

Already, in his earth-science sleuthing, Dr. Gates has shed new light not only on the pattern of local earthquakes but also on the Harriman watershed in a time of drought.