The mightiest of corporations and the mightiest of earthquakes-- there is a fault line.
They are also trying to understand the role that deep seas trenches play in earthquakes - these cracks in the sea floor are formed at the boundary of two tectonic plates and some believe the push and pull taking place deep underwater could be the cause of major earthquakes, such as the 2011 quake that resulted in such devastation in Japan.
He has been to many of the worst natural disasters in recent years -- earthquakes in Haiti and China, bush fires, floods and typhoons.
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At least 80 people are now known to have died in a series of earthquakes in south-western China, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.
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As far as worst-case scenarios, I thought of earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides and movie-star houses cascading into the ocean.
Two strong earthquakes have struck north-western Iran, leaving at least 180 people dead and more than 1, 300 injured, officials say.
Also that earthquakes occurred in chains-like beads in a necklace, he thought.
Bushehr official Mahmud Ja'fari told Iranian state TV that the power plant was designed to withstand 8.0-magnitude earthquakes, and that "the plant is operating as usual".
These sorts of events are called strike-slip earthquakes.
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But the authors of the new study focus on the significantly larger and delayed events in Prague, which they wrote "necessitate reconsideration of the maximum possible size of injection-induced earthquakes, and of the time scale considered diagnostic of induced seismicity".
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Stress - not only the environmental type associated with earthquakes, but also marital or job stress - was likely to affect the placental clock and shorten gestation, she said.
Most of these tsunamis were associated with underwater, or what are called submarine earthquakes, although the Caribbean Sea region has all of the potential tsunami-generating sources: submarine earthquakes, subaerial or submarine landslides and volcano activity.
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There have been major earthquakes, floods, power-grid failures, and Internet outages for decades.
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"There are a lot of crises in the world that we can't always predict or avoid - hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist attacks, " he said.
LA's citizens are more worried about earthquakes, fires, car-jackings, drive-by shootings, killer bees and the wrong sort of coffee does not seem to have occurred to those demanding change.
The pattern of seismicity has now returned to the level it was at before the ash and steam eruptions - magnitude three earthquakes are occurring at a rate of every five minutes.
Even as Gulf Coast states brace for a hurricane, a so-called swarm of earthquakes rumbled through southern California.
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With more people scrutinizing more data we will get ahead of earthquakes too, sooner or later--perhaps not by much, but by enough to evacuate schools before they collapse on our children.
It has seized on natural disasters, such as earthquakes, to play an active civil-defence role.
The exercise includes four scenarios of powerful earthquakes in the Mediterranean and in the North-eastern Atlantic.
As Japan weighs whether to resume its reliance on nuclear power, all this evidence is highly relevant - whether the plants can withstand earthquakes, whether the authorities really are checking them, and whether local people are kept properly informed.
An alternative would be to make natural-disaster insurance (covering floods, earthquakes, avalanches and so on) obligatory, with premiums more closely reflecting the risk.
Iran sits on major fault lines -- the collision of the Arabia and Eurasia plates -- and has been prone to devastating earthquakes.
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Mr Ban has also used paper-tube technology to create low-cost, recyclable, pest-resistant temporary dwellings for victims of earthquakes in Japan and Turkey and for Rwandan refugees.
And the risk of earthquakes, which has long been present in conventional oil-and-gas extraction, is modest and mitigated by monitoring.
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One of the earliest exotic assets was the catastrophe bond, the provision of back-up capital to insurance companies dealing with earthquakes or hurricanes.
He has also been able to process seismograms and identify differences between the seismic signals from earthquakes that produce tsunamis directly and those that trigger tsunami-producing landslides.
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But Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, said he and others knew that the service could have wide-reaching effects early on, when the San-Francisco, California-based company used it to communicate during earthquakes.
Furthermore, in the past half-century the Himalayan region has seen fewer powerful earthquakes than might be predicted from historical records.
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