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It's a collaborative exercise, given the difficulties that the whole world knows Puerto Rico has endured in the last five years -- hurricanes, earthquakes, political and fiscal crises -- the Puerto Rican people at all levels have cooperated. – Iris Cardona	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nature: I believe nature has both a destructive side and a healing side. Nature can bring disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and more. These disasters can cause fear, trauma, destruction, death and suffering. However nature also has a soothing side, a healing side, the mountains, oceans, lakes, trees, flowers, waterfalls, medications etc can calm and help the body, they can make you more relaxed, they can give you peace and when your at peace you function better. Nature can give you a death sentence, it can treat you and it can sometimes cure you. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 2 years ago
Because the fault zone is so quiet seismically, we really don’t have a good picture of where the part of the fault that generates the big earthquakes is located. At other subduction zones, there are many small earthquakes recorded along the megathrust fault that scientists can use to locate the fault and study its properties, but not at Cascadia. – Research Professor Suzanne Carbotte	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's three important factors with earthquakes, there's energy that leaves the source, there's amplification by the local geology when it gets to a site, and then there's what happens in between, it's the in between that really matters for East Coast versus West Coast. – Susan Hough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The earthquake itself, like most large earthquakes, released energy with a wide range of frequencies, the bigger the earthquake, the greater the level of booming low tones. But big earthquakes also release a lot of high-frequency energy. The high-frequency energy gets damped out quickly as it travels through the earth, so the Haiti earthquake was damaging to Port-au-Prince in part because the fault rupture was so close. – Susan Hough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the 1906 California earthquake, some people living 100 miles away slept through The Haiti quake, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes( which happened in 1811 and 1812 in present-day Missouri), it actually rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina. That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust. There's a difference. – Susan Hough	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It would be remarkable if it could have survived the millennia of culture change and natural ruin, even if untouched by human hands, earthquakes and seawater would have buried or submerged it. – Robert Gurval	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Even if untouched by human hands, earthquakes and seawater would have buried or submerged it, her palace is certainly under water. Maybe her mausoleum, too. – Robert Gurval	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Salt Lake City was hit twice, the Covid crisis and also a series of earthquakes, about 15,000 [ restaurant workers ] are unemployed right now. – Ty Burrell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well be able to get one before the year is out, at least the clinical trials, and thats if everything goes wrong, like fires, earthquakes and Godzilla attacks. Well get something out. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We're all grasping at straws as to what to do with the earthquake families, obviously, it isn't as large of a movement as after Hurricane Maria. ... But these are hundreds of households who are homeless, who are suffering from PTSD, who have been hit by two traumas -- Hurricane Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes. – Miguel Rodriguez	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today, we are making a big leap forward in terms of focusing attention on prevention - were announcing the nations first comprehensive early alert system for earthquakes, were announcing the ability for millions and millions of Californians to download an app, MyShake... if millions of people do that, we will have points of contact, the ability to crowdsource information, the likes of which no country in the world has advanced. – Gavin Newsom	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Subduction, the plunging of one plate under the other, is the basic way in which mountain chains are formed, our research provided a large number of insights, also about volcanism and earthquakes, that we are already applying elsewhere. You can even predict, to a certain extent, what a given area will look like in the far future. – Van Hinsbergen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have learned to live with earthquakes, this was one more quake, the situation is gradually subsiding. The city withstood this and can handle it. There is no cause for concern. – Kyriakos Mitsotakis	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I work on the physics of the rupture process and I have become convinced that the physics is in a class of phenomena that are called 'chaotic,' if this is true, then we will probably never predict earthquakes. – Thomas Heaton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is now a catalog that stores the locations, sizes and times of millions of past earthquakes, it is quite straightforward to characterize the statistical behavior of these events. – Thomas Heaton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That zone is a place of weakness and that's what's causing these small earthquakes to occur, large earthquakes occur on large faults. – Andrew Newman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Large earthquakes occur on large faults. – Andrew Newman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The colonia Roma is emblematic in the context of Mexico City. It's an old quarter, more than a century old, it's significant, it's symbolic. It carries for us very painful memories, like the earthquakes, especially 1985. – Carlos Solar	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We still aren't used to these earthquakes. – Lissette Alarcón	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I felt the walls and the floor move. I was very scared and we went out to the street, we still aren't used to these earthquakes. – Lissette Alarcón	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don’t think anyone wants to think, ‘Is my daughter going to be here tomorrow?’ seeing Destinee recover from a cancer bed to now smiling, dancing, talking and walking out with the Earthquakes – it’s unexplainable. – Miriam Villanueva	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's been a dream of mine for almost 40 years, in the past, it was thwarted by the weather, such as earthquakes and avalanches. – Xia Boyu	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We understand and commiserate with our community and visitors about the prolonged closure, but we can not provide safe access to the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii section of the park as long as these very unpredictable dangers threaten the safety of park staff and visitors, unlike lava, which you can see coming and avoid, we can not see or predict earthquakes, nor can we foresee a summit explosion, but both threats continue. HAWAII'S KIM VOWS TO REBUILD FROM VOLCANO WITH HELP OF FEMA, AS SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORST IS YET TO COME Damage to Jaggar Museum overlook following 5.5 magnitude earthquake on June 3, 2018. ( NPS Photo) The summit area in particular has been also struck by several earthquakes that have damaged at least three park buildings, fractured park roads, and snapped water lines, according to the National Park Service. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rattled the summit area at 3:50 p.m. on June 3, cracking the overlook deck at Jaggar Museum. Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii RANKED AMONG TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS IN US A large plume of ash after an earthquake near the summit of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii volcano on May 25, 2018. ( NPS Photo) Over the weekend, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported more than 500 earthquakes in a 24-hour period – the most ever measured by HVO scientists. – Park Superintendent Cindy Orlando	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

It's a collaborative exercise, given the difficulties that the whole world knows Puerto Rico has endured in the last five years -- hurricanes, earthquakes, political and fiscal crises -- the Puerto Rican people at all levels have cooperated.

– Iris Cardona

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nature: I believe nature has both a destructive side and a healing side. Nature can bring disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and more. These disasters can cause fear, trauma, destruction, death and suffering. However nature also has a soothing side, a healing side, the mountains, oceans, lakes, trees, flowers, waterfalls, medications etc can calm and help the body, they can make you more relaxed, they can give you peace and when your at peace you function better. Nature can give you a death sentence, it can treat you and it can sometimes cure you.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

Because the fault zone is so quiet seismically, we really don’t have a good picture of where the part of the fault that generates the big earthquakes is located. At other subduction zones, there are many small earthquakes recorded along the megathrust fault that scientists can use to locate the fault and study its properties, but not at Cascadia.

– Research Professor Suzanne Carbotte

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's three important factors with earthquakes, there's energy that leaves the source, there's amplification by the local geology when it gets to a site, and then there's what happens in between, it's the in between that really matters for East Coast versus West Coast.

– Susan Hough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The earthquake itself, like most large earthquakes, released energy with a wide range of frequencies, the bigger the earthquake, the greater the level of booming low tones. But big earthquakes also release a lot of high-frequency energy. The high-frequency energy gets damped out quickly as it travels through the earth, so the Haiti earthquake was damaging to Port-au-Prince in part because the fault rupture was so close.

– Susan Hough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the 1906 California earthquake, some people living 100 miles away slept through The Haiti quake, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes( which happened in 1811 and 1812 in present-day Missouri), it actually rang church bells in Charleston, South Carolina. That has to do with how the waves travel through the crust. There's a difference.

– Susan Hough

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It would be remarkable if it could have survived the millennia of culture change and natural ruin, even if untouched by human hands, earthquakes and seawater would have buried or submerged it.

– Robert Gurval

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Even if untouched by human hands, earthquakes and seawater would have buried or submerged it, her palace is certainly under water. Maybe her mausoleum, too.

– Robert Gurval

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Salt Lake City was hit twice, the Covid crisis and also a series of earthquakes, about 15,000 [ restaurant workers ] are unemployed right now.

– Ty Burrell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well be able to get one before the year is out, at least the clinical trials, and thats if everything goes wrong, like fires, earthquakes and Godzilla attacks. Well get something out.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We're all grasping at straws as to what to do with the earthquake families, obviously, it isn't as large of a movement as after Hurricane Maria. ... But these are hundreds of households who are homeless, who are suffering from PTSD, who have been hit by two traumas -- Hurricane Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes.

– Miguel Rodriguez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today, we are making a big leap forward in terms of focusing attention on prevention - were announcing the nations first comprehensive early alert system for earthquakes, were announcing the ability for millions and millions of Californians to download an app, MyShake... if millions of people do that, we will have points of contact, the ability to crowdsource information, the likes of which no country in the world has advanced.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Subduction, the plunging of one plate under the other, is the basic way in which mountain chains are formed, our research provided a large number of insights, also about volcanism and earthquakes, that we are already applying elsewhere. You can even predict, to a certain extent, what a given area will look like in the far future.

– Van Hinsbergen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have learned to live with earthquakes, this was one more quake, the situation is gradually subsiding. The city withstood this and can handle it. There is no cause for concern.

– Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I work on the physics of the rupture process and I have become convinced that the physics is in a class of phenomena that are called 'chaotic,' if this is true, then we will probably never predict earthquakes.

– Thomas Heaton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is now a catalog that stores the locations, sizes and times of millions of past earthquakes, it is quite straightforward to characterize the statistical behavior of these events.

– Thomas Heaton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That zone is a place of weakness and that's what's causing these small earthquakes to occur, large earthquakes occur on large faults.

– Andrew Newman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Large earthquakes occur on large faults.

– Andrew Newman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The colonia Roma is emblematic in the context of Mexico City. It's an old quarter, more than a century old, it's significant, it's symbolic. It carries for us very painful memories, like the earthquakes, especially 1985.

– Carlos Solar

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We still aren't used to these earthquakes.

– Lissette Alarcón

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I felt the walls and the floor move. I was very scared and we went out to the street, we still aren't used to these earthquakes.

– Lissette Alarcón

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I don’t think anyone wants to think, ‘Is my daughter going to be here tomorrow?’ seeing Destinee recover from a cancer bed to now smiling, dancing, talking and walking out with the Earthquakes – it’s unexplainable.

– Miriam Villanueva

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's been a dream of mine for almost 40 years, in the past, it was thwarted by the weather, such as earthquakes and avalanches.

– Xia Boyu

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We understand and commiserate with our community and visitors about the prolonged closure, but we can not provide safe access to the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii section of the park as long as these very unpredictable dangers threaten the safety of park staff and visitors, unlike lava, which you can see coming and avoid, we can not see or predict earthquakes, nor can we foresee a summit explosion, but both threats continue. HAWAII'S KIM VOWS TO REBUILD FROM VOLCANO WITH HELP OF FEMA, AS SCIENTISTS SAY THE WORST IS YET TO COME Damage to Jaggar Museum overlook following 5.5 magnitude earthquake on June 3, 2018. ( NPS Photo) The summit area in particular has been also struck by several earthquakes that have damaged at least three park buildings, fractured park roads, and snapped water lines, according to the National Park Service. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake rattled the summit area at 3:50 p.m. on June 3, cracking the overlook deck at Jaggar Museum. Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii RANKED AMONG TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS IN US A large plume of ash after an earthquake near the summit of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii volcano on May 25, 2018. ( NPS Photo) Over the weekend, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported more than 500 earthquakes in a 24-hour period – the most ever measured by HVO scientists.

– Park Superintendent Cindy Orlando

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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