Assertion: fault's earthquake | /r/HasProperty | large
Facets:
value: as magnitude
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The section of the fault in the park is just as active as the section to the east, and at some point in the future it will also break in a large earthquake.
text: On average, one earthquake per year is large enough to be felt in the area.
text: By analyzing the stresses along the fault caused by each large earthquake, they were able to predict the shock that hit the town of İzmit with devastating effect in August 1999.
text: Only three earthquakes in California’s modern record have been as large as magnitude 7.8, and two of them were on the San Andreas — the one in 1906 that destroyed most of San Francisco in shaking and fire, and the Southern California megaquake in 1857, when the region was sparsely populated.
text: —this fault is a candidate for the fault that caused a large earthquake in 1872.
text: Some faults have not shown these signs and we will not know they are there until they produce a large earthquake.
text: This study did not investigate rupture length, so although scientists consider the earthquakes at Hokuri Creek were large enough to rupture much of the southern and central parts of the fault, they will not be certain of this until they can correlate with earthquake records at other sites.
text: If earthquakes are large enough, the energy spreads far wider than most imagine.
text: I have to say, as much as the earthquake was large and had a widespread impact, it's not as bad as it could have been," Mark Ghilarducci, director of California's Office of Emergency Services, said during a press conference Sunday.
text: We know that the San Andreas fault produces large earthquakes and that many other faults are also hazardous.