Sentence examples for seismic area from inspiring English sources

According to the background seismicity, a part of the Aso caldera, as well as the northern end of the Futagawa fault zone, has been a moderately active seismic area (see cross section D D′ of the seismicity between 2001 and 2012 in Fig. 3).

"In a seismic area sooner or later something will happen.

The sea is in an active seismic area and building a dam would be difficult and expensive.

Few individuals or businesses had earthquake insurance, since the area was not zoned as a high-risk seismic area; the government is now expected to redraw its map.

"The problem is that this wasn't a seismic area, so citizens' reactions have been amplified," said Fabrizio Toselli, the mayor of Sant'Agostino, whose 19th-century town hall is now gashed with a multi-story hole in one wall.

"The problem is that this wasn't a seismic area, so citizens' reactions have been amplified," said Fabrizio Toselli, the mayor of Sant'Agostino, whose 19th-century town hall has a multistory hole in one wall.

Officials should enforce tough building codes in seismic areas.

While those faults sit in the middle of the North American tectonic plate — far from any boundaries whose interaction can produce the strong quakes experienced in more active seismic areas like California — they are accumulating stresses as the plate is gradually pushed west.

structures in seismic areas.

Quakes can be "forecast" only over large seismic areas and long time scales.

In seismic areas many buildings need to be retrofitted.