("Geography.about.com", 2016). The Pacific Northwest has a lot of tectonic activity causing many earthquakes. The three tectonic plates that influence these earthquakes are The North America, Juan De Fuca, and the Pacific plate. These three plates make up what is called the Cascadia Strain. The most common damaging earthquakes in Washington and Oregon are deep earthquakes from Juan De Fuca. These earthquakes occur when Juan De Fuca starts to bend and plunge underneath North America. Stresses cause faults
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Chile is located in South America, bounded on the east by the Andes, the world's longest mountain range, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Peru borders Chile on the North; Bolivia forms the northeast border. Chile’s size is roughly similar to Turkey, considering only the continental territory. Chile includes three geographical zones. The first is so-called continental zone, which includes territory from the west coast to the high mountains in the east. Chile’s continental zone is a long and thin
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an earthquake, also known as a quake, tremor or temblor is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event either natural or caused by humans. Terminology The point at which an earthquake occurs is known as the focus.. Epicenter is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the Focus. When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may
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Evaluate how plate tectonics theory helps our understanding of the distribution of seismic and volcanic events. Plate tectonics is a relatively new theory that was developed by Alfred Wegner in 1912 who came up with the idea of Pangea which tells us about the structure of the earth. The earths structure consists of a crust which varies in thickness from 5 to 10 km beneath the oceans to 70 km under continents. The lithosphere is the next part which consists of the crust and the upper mantle and
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Exponential and logarithmic functions are used to model a variety of realworld phenomena: growth of populations of people, animals, and bacteria; radioactive decay; epidemics; absorption of light as it passes through air, water, or glass; magnitudes of sounds and earthquakes. We consider applications in these areas plus many more in the sections very important. As a part of our BBA course, we are required to submit a term paper for every subject each semester. As our Advance Business Mathematics faculty
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the ocean floor; (2) confirmation of repeated reversals of the Earth magnetic field in the geologic past; (3) emergence of the seafloor-spreading hypothesis and associated recycling of oceanic crust; and (4) precise documentation that the world's earthquake and volcanic activity is concentrated along oceanic trenches and submarine mountain ranges (Kious and Tilling, 1996). 2. Factors to consider in estimating damage
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The Creation Of The Floor Karina Decubas SCI/209 Nov 2,2015 Shannon Shoemaker The Creation Of The Ocean Floor Oceanography is the branch of science that studies the ocean and vast amount of topics. I learned the importance of this branch among science. Science has answered many questions and created many theories that goes beyond this science in specific but help to answer more question in other branch of science. Two very important theories are the Continental Drift and
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“Earthquakes have affected the Earth since the solid lithosphere first formed” (Marshak, 201). Mankind learned to adapt through numerous earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes since the beginning of time and this survival involved taking substantial risks. According to Marshak, “Earthquakes are a fact of life on planet Earth: almost 1 million detectable earthquakes happen every year…most cause no damage or casualties, because they are too small or they occur in unpopulated areas” (201). There are very
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GÖLCÜK & 2011 VAN EARTHQUAKES Göksu ÇELEBİ Hatice İrem GÜNAYDIN Ece ÖMÜR The aim of the project The aim of this project is to examine fatal consequences of Gölcük and Van earthquakes which are arising from engineering errors. 1999 Gölcük Earthquake This earthquake, whose eppicenter is
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2017 1964 Alaskan Earthquake 139 people are believed to have died: 15 died as a result of the earthquake itself, 106 died from the subsequent tsunami in Alaska, 5 died from the tsunami in Oregon, and 13 died from the tsunami in California. An earthquake is, a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. The 1964 Alaskan earthquake included many details common to earthquakes and caused damage
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