Sentence examples for top earthquake from inspiring English sources

Some of the world's top earthquake experts now say the projections significantly underestimate the severity of shaking that buildings in several West Coast cities are likely to undergo during earthquakes.

This killed 6,400 people in an area that was supposed to be seismically inactive.In the wake of Kobe one of the doyens of Japanese seismology, Kiyoo Mogi, noisily quit his post as the government's top earthquake adviser because of the futility of the task.

But Lucy Jones, who served for 33 years as a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Service, and was recruited by Mr. Garcetti as his top earthquake adviser, said the reaction to Houston this week has led her to believe that has changed because of the ability of people across the world to feel the disaster up close through arresting images on their mobile phones.

City officials hired Degenkolb Engineers, a top earthquake engineering firm, to walk down every street and examine each structure, take photographs and gather notes on vulnerabilities and construction history.

Santa Monica on Tuesday took a significant step in boosting seismic safety by agreeing to hire a top earthquake engineering firm to help the city identify older buildings potentially at risk of collapse in a major temblor.

California lawmakers banned new buildings on top of earthquake faults after homes sitting astride the fissures were ripped apart in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones.

Buildings on top of earthquake faults are in "very dangerous locations," said Parrish, the state geologist.

Top: major earthquakes with right-lateral strike slip from 2006 to 2008.

The top-seeded Earthquakes will play host to the Kansas City Wizards in the single-elimination conference title match on Saturday.

The dynamic properties of the dam are identified from records of the top five strongest earthquake motions using power spectral density functions, transfer functions, and the ARX model.

So why do millions of Turkish families, like the Nalbantoglus of Ercis, agree to live in slipshod buildings on top of an earthquake fault line, without calling in so much as a safety inspection?