One of the most disastrous earthquakes to hit this planet was the Haiti earthquake. In the afternoon of January 12, 2010, this earthquake -with a magnitude of 7.0- hit the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in Central America. Although the damages were mostly found in Haiti, the people in the Dominican Republic experienced similar results. While many calculations disagree with each other, at least a whopping 150,000 people lost their lives in this unfortunate event, while more than ten
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aren’t ready for them. The school held an earthquake preparedness headed by Mr. Renato U. Solidum Jr., director of PHIVOLCS- an institute of the government assigned to regulate and monitor volcanic activities as well as earthquake predictions, effects and sources. The aim of this symposium was to inform the students, faculty members, administrators and those of general services of the necessary precautions to prevent further damage that may happen during earthquakes. Information, preparedness and understanding
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Assignment: Earthquakes Axia Colleges of the University of Phoenix By To understand why the Earth moves the way that it does along and through its diverse layers, we must have a better understanding of the physical science surrounding both plate tectonics, and earthquakes. This is a summation on earthquakes;
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welcome to this section of presentations tonight. My name is Thanasis Christou and I’m studying Business Administration at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Tonight I will show you a presentation about Innovation in Japan after the earthquake and the tsunami of 2011. 1 More specifically the purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how some companies in Japan used innovation as both an effective marketing tool and a growth engine after the 11.03 disaster. 2 . Tonight
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2008 Sichuan Earthquake Background Sichuan is a province in the south west of China and is home to 80 million people. The provincial capital is Chengdu. The earthquake struck the province on May 12 at 02:28 China Standard time. It was measured to be 7.9 in magnitude. The epicentre was in Wenchuan County, 80km northwest of Chengdu. It had a focal depth of 19km. The earthquake was felt over 1700km in Beijing and in neighbouring countries. There was over 150 major aftershocks measured and around 47000
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'The hazards presented by volcanic and seismic events have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people'. To what extent do you agree with this view? Firstly I believe that this statement is true but only to a partial extent. Hazards presented by tectonic activity can be managed and controlled so their impacts are lessened and even not felt. However such management involves planning, prediction and action, all of which may cost considerable amounts of money, unavailable to the poorest people
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Earthquakes Tresha Yarberry University of Phoenix Earthquakes Everyone wonders how earthquakes happen. Although, scientists have no way of predicting earthquakes, there are ways to find out how and what causes them. People can be prepared if an earthquakes happens. There are three different types of plate margins. The first one is divergent margin, also called rifting or spreading centers. This occurs where two plates are moving apart. They can occur either in
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Journal ISNS 3359 Earthquake 1 Location: 47 miles NNE of La Paz, Mexico Magnitude: 6.2 Date-time: 09-25-2012 23:45:26 UTC, 2:45 PM Hypocenter Depth: 10.1km Plate tectonic setting: San Andreas fault, the fault is a transform fault. Maps & effects: Effect: Shaking felt in La Paz, however damage done was light. Sources: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000cw0l#summary Volcano 1 Location: Kapaa, United States, 19°25'16" N 155°17'13" W Type of volcano: Shield
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where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. It has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's
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design that could provide assurance to the people at times of natural calamity especially earthquake. Seismic engineers have tried many ways like having multi-layered stone infrastructures that introduced stiffness and rigidity that could resist frail earthquake movements, but then having those strongly built firm stone constructions would not be enough since it cannot withhold forceful and high level of magnitude and intensity of this catastrophic event. Seismic base isolation refers to the systematic
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