...Haruki Murakami presents after the quake which is a fictional book that is broken up into six mesmerizing short stories. Each short story follows the same three rules Murakami set for himself stated in his interview with The Georgia Review. “The first was that the stories should be written in the third person”(557). “The second was that the stories should be about the earthquake in Kobe, but without describing the earthquake directly”(558) this made it for the stories to be not directly about the earthquake but still dealing with it. Lastly, “the third thing was that the stories shouldn’t happen in or around the earthquake”(558). Murakami’s characters all were not in kobe when there story was being told and the earthquake. In some of the stories the earthquake was...
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...disaster, death toll, epicentre, places Key terms: Population, natural disaster, death toll, epicentre, places A map to show where the quake struck A map to show where the quake struck An image to show the destruction that the quake caused An image to show the destruction that the quake caused Dozens of householders were woken during the night after an earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale rocked parts of Devon and Cornwall, on the 25th of November 2013 police said today. People who felt the tremors described their fears as floors and walls shook. The quake occurred just before midnight and its epicenter was in the Bristol Channel 25 miles (40kms) west of Bude on the Cornish coast, a spokesman for the British Geological Survey said. "The earthquake measured 3.6 on the Richter scale and there were reports of houses vibrating and rumbling," said the spokesman. Police said there were no reports of any injuries but there were some cases of structural damage to buildings. Jason Willoughby had just gone to bed at Pensilva near Liskeard, Cornwall when the quake struck. "We thought it was a lorry going down the road at first but then the house started to shake and it passed over the top of us," he said. "We went outside to see what it was. We thought it was an aircraft or something of that nature, but there was nothing." He said the quake seemed to last around 5-10 seconds. Mr Willoughby's partner Tanya Horrocks, who is seven and a half months pregnant, said the incident...
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...Francisco At 5:12 am on April 16,1906 an earthquake shook the coast of Northern California. With a magnitude of 7.8. The quake affected 375,000 square miles. It could be felt all the way to Nevada. One half of this miles were in the Pacific Ocean. The cities of San Jose, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa were all affected by this earthquake. There was 400 million dollars, 1906 dollars, in damages done to the city. This was the first major disaster in the world to be documented by pictures. Slide 2 The Fires The fires erupted after the quake. Firefighters were unable to fight them because the water lines were destroyed in the quake. 28,000 building were destroyed spanning over 500 blocks. The fires burned for 3 days. As a result they caused more damages then the quake did. 225,000 people lost their homes and 3,000 perished. The city built refugee camps to house the ones who lost their homes. Slide 3 History Theodore Roosevelt was the current president, being elected in 1901. In December of 1906, president Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his help with the peaceful end to the Russo-Japaneese war. In 1906, 1.1 million immigrants had arrived in America. That is the most to arrive on a single year. At this time San Francisco was the 9th largest city in the United States. The night before the quake, Italian tenor, Enrique Caruso played at the Palace Hotel. The hotel was destroyed the next day due to the fires. Slide 4 ...
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...RHODES UNIVERSITY – EARTH SCIENCE 101 ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Name: | Sopazi, Sebenzile | Student Number: | G11s5764 | Course: | Earth101 | Lecturer/Tutor: | Mark Raines | Title: | Magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake | Word Count: | 420 | Due Date: | 9 March 2012 | Date of Electronic Submission | 09March 2012 | Date of Hardcopy Submission | 09 March 2012 | PLAGIARISM DECLARATION (adapted from the declaration presented in the Rhodes University Plagiarism Policy: http://scifac.ru.ac.za/plag2008.doc) * I know that plagiarism means taking and using the ideas, writings, works or inventions of another as if they were one’s own. I know that plagiarism not only includes verbatim copying, but also the extensive use of another person’s ideas without proper acknowledgement (including the proper use of quotation marks). I know that plagiarism covers this sort of use of material found in textual sources and from the Internet. * I acknowledge and understand that plagiarism is wrong. * I understand that my research must be accurately referenced. I have followed the rules and conventions concerning referencing, citation and the use of quotations as set out in the Departmental Guide. * This assignment is my own work, or my group’s own unique group assignment. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is wrong, and that submitting identical work to others constitutes a form of plagiarism. * I have not allowed, nor will I in the future...
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...The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, the people of San Francisco were abruptly awaken to one of the world’s most expensive and impacting earthquakes of the 20th century. The magnitude of the earthquake is debatable, ranging from 7.7 to as high as 8.2. However, the most accepted Richter measurement is 7.9. This is debated because Charles Richtor developed his scale in 1935, after the killer quake. The main shock epicenter occurred offshore 3.2 km from the city, near Mussel Rock. It ruptured along the San Andreas Fault northward and southward for 476 km (296 miles). The quake was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, inland as far as Nevada. Though the earthquake was impacting in itself, it lasted less than a minute and the most damage was done by the resulting fire that lasted 4 days. The earthquake bears inexhaustible remembrance as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States and has had lasting social, fiscal, and political impact. The death toll is uncertain, but modern calculations approximate about 3,000 deaths at a minimum. The death toll alone is a very debated topic, and has had a large impact by itself. Initially it was said that only 478 people had died. It is speculated that the official tally of 478 was employed by the city coroner, who added 100 to the 378 bodies that showed up at the morgue. Some uncertainty in the toll exists because government officials felt that reporting the true death toll would lower...
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...an earthquake. In relation to the question above the type and severity of the impact can be affected by physical factors (such as the magnitude and frequency of the quake) as well as human factors (population density and education). I will be discussing the question using the following case studies, Sichuan, Indonesia and L’Aquila. On the 12th May 2008 an earthquake occurred at 2:28pm in Sichuan because the pressure resulting from the Indian plate colliding with the Eurasian was sent along the Longmenshan fault line that runs through Sichuan. The earthquake lasted 120 seconds and reached 7.9 on the Richter scale, one of the deadliest to strike China in recent years and its effects were felt as far away as Taiwan, Thailand and Bangladesh. Although the area has a long history of tectonic activity, it seems it was not prepared for an event of this magnitude. With a population consisting of 87.26m people the death toll stood at nearly 70 thousand along with 374,000 people injured and 5m left homeless. Making this Chinas worst earthquake since 1976 when 240,000 people were killed in Tangshan. Even after the quake there have been more than 12,600 aftershocks has high as 5.4 in Qingchuan which killed a further 8 more people and injured 927 leaving over 400,000 homes destroyed. The impacts faced by this particular quake were due to the lack of prediction and preparation from the Chinese government. Although this area is prone to earthquakes, Sichuan is a region that has been largely...
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...an earthquake. In relation to the question above the type and severity of the impact can be affected by physical factors (such as the magnitude and frequency of the quake) as well as human factors (population density and education). I will be discussing the question using the following case studies, Sichuan, Indonesia and L’Aquila. On the 12th May 2008 an earthquake occurred at 2:28pm in Sichuan because the pressure resulting from the Indian plate colliding with the Eurasian was sent along the Longmenshan fault line that runs through Sichuan. The earthquake lasted 120 seconds and reached 7.9 on the Richter scale, one of the deadliest to strike China in recent years and its effects were felt as far away as Taiwan, Thailand and Bangladesh. Although the area has a long history of tectonic activity, it seems it was not prepared for an event of this magnitude. With a population consisting of 87.26m people the death toll stood at nearly 70 thousand along with 374,000 people injured and 5m left homeless. Making this Chinas worst earthquake since 1976 when 240,000 people were killed in Tangshan. Even after the quake there have been more than 12,600 aftershocks has high as 5.4 in Qingchuan which killed a further 8 more people and injured 927 leaving over 400,000 homes destroyed. The impacts faced by this particular quake were due to the lack of prediction and preparation from the Chinese government. Although this area is prone to earthquakes, Sichuan is a region that has been largely...
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...Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Neither the buyers nor the sellers knew that the recent addition's basement contained a seismic time bomb nearly ready to go off At around 2:15 a.m. on December 16, 1811, a series of massive earthquake pummeled what is now southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas with ground motions so strong that trees snapped in two as they whipped back and forth. The landscape rose several meters in some areas and sank in others, changing the courses of creeks and waterways. During one of the quakes, even the mighty Mississippi was diverted; portions near the quake's presumed epicenter flowed backward for at least several hours, and possibly a day or more. People felt the temblor as far away as New York state, and seismic vibes from an aftershock that struck at dawn traveled almost as far, reaching residents in Georgia and what would soon become the state of Louisiana. Another quake of a similar size , maybe an aftershock, or maybe a separate quake along a different portion of the same fault zone - rumbled on January 23, 1812. The final major shaking in the series came about two weeks later, on February 7, when spreading seismic waves flung books from their shelves in Charleston, S.C., and rattled cups and saucers in Washington, D.C. As in an episode from some apocalyptic tract, fissures opened, lakes were drained and re-formed, and, in what seemed the ultimate act of divine intervention, the Mississippi River changed course and appeared to flow backward....
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...structures.第一部分要求学生在把握文章的基础上，掌握重点词汇的词义及时用，这更注重培养学生运用上下文猜测词义的能力。其次还对一些复杂的数字读法进行了检测。第二部分则结合文章学习定语从句。 Using Language 部分分为Reading，Writing and Speaking；Listening和Writing。Reading，Writing and Speaking 包括读一篇邀请函，写一份演讲稿和关于一套新唐山邮票的Little talk。Listening 部分讲述了一位地震幸存者的故事，并根据听力材料进行正误判断和回答问题，旨在培养学生获取细节的能力，并通过听来模仿标准的语音和语调。Writing部分要求学生报纸写一篇新闻报道，学习如何按照规范的步骤进行写作，如选择适当地标题和组织语言等。另外这一部分也培养学生写作时注意标题、主旨大意和细节。 Summing up部分帮助学生整理、巩固本单元所学到的知识，包括学到的关于地震的知识，有用的动词、名词、表达方式和新的语法项目。Learning Tip部分就听英语方面给出了一些建议，建议学生多听广播或电视里的英语节目. 二．教学目标和要求 根据《英语新课程标准》关于总目标的具体描述，结合高一学生实际和教材内容，我们将教学目标分为语言知识、语言技能、学习策略、情感态度、文化意识五个方面。 1.知识目标（Knowledge） ① 词汇（Vocabulary）：shake, rise, crack, burst, well, smelly, pond, steam, destroy, ruin, injure, survivor, brick, useless, shock, quake, rescue, electricity, disaster, organize, bury, coal, mine, shelter, fresh, percent, honor, prepare. ② 短语(Phrases and expressions)：right away, at an end, lie in ruins, be trapped under sth, to the north of sp, put up, give out, wake sb up, prepare sth for sth., think little of sth. ③ 语法(Grammar)：定语从句（The Attributive...
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...Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the United States and one with the highest risk of earthquakes. Los Angeles is an urban environment that has high infrastructure which increases hazards associated with earthquakes. There are many factors that lead to the current knowledge of past, current, and future earthquakes occurrences. We are better able to understand where and why earthquakes are likely to occur and to be proactive to their hazards. Los Angeles is located approximately 60 miles from the largest and most active fault line in the United States. The San Andreas Fault line is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These tectonic plates slide past each other breaking rock, creating shaking and seismic waves in every direction. This shaking is what we know as earthquakes and the seismic waves are how they are rated based on severity. The L.A. area is located where slip rate of the plates is well known. The slip rates of the San Andreas Fault is calculated by its size and the rate that one plate moves compared to the other. The soft soil and near surface materials have low wave velocity which create more shaking as compared to hard rock. Observing the shear wave velocity can assist in estimating potential seismic activity. Energy released from slipping rocks on the fault line can travel many miles. The location at which this slip occurs is known as the focus and epicenter is directly above the focus on the earth’s surface. Earthquakes...
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... In San Francisco California a major Earthquake had occurred on 1906 which result to fires that had cause an estimated of 3,000 deaths and $524 millions of property loss. The damaging cost in the city of San Francisco were $20 million and outside the city was $4million.The Earthquake vibration lasted for about 1 minute. The quake ruptured a total of 290 miles of the earth's surface along the San Andreas Fault, from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. Though most of the damage was focused in San Francisco the quake was felt all the way from Oregon to Los Angeles. Many building were destructed and several hundred of people got killed. The earthquake happened on the San Andreas Fault, which is the major fracture of the Earth's crust. It is trending northwestward through southern and northern California, US for 650 miles (1,050 km) and passing seaward in the vicinity of San Francisco. Movement along this transform fault is of the strike-slip type and is characterized by occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along the path of the fault. The disastrous San Francisco quake of 1906 and the less serious earthquake of 1989 were both caused by movement along the fault. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the San Andreas results from the abutment of two major plates of the Earth's crust, the Northern Pacific and the North American. Along the fault, the Northern Pacific plate is sliding past the North...
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...Tectonics Paper Name: Tonia Erskine Date: 01/09/2015 Instructor: Allen Fronabarger According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) one of the leading agency that monitor real time earthquake in the state of Los Angeles, states it is a very high risk for frequent damaging earthquakes. These earthquakes are results from many fault systems that moving through Los Angeles that leads to earthquakes of many different types and sizes. South California has more than 10,000 earthquakes every year; many of them are very small and sometime never even cause any damage or even felt. However, Los Angeles do have large earthquake that create after shocks the causes many damages and sometimes these aftershock can create sequence of additional earthquake that can occur for months. On March 10, 1933 at 5:54 p.m. magnitude 6.4 earthquakes hit the Newport-Inglewood Fault, causing serious damage in Long Beach and other communities. The earthquake resulted in 120 deaths and more than $50 million in property damage. Most of the damaged buildings were of unreinforced masonry. The most recent earthquake in South California caused severe structural damage to buildings but did not caused any deaths, however, on February 9, 1971 caused the city about $500 million in damages and 65 deaths. On October 1, 1987 at 7:42 a.m. an earthquake of the magnitude 5.9. struck the city causing eight deaths and...
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...80% of the city, this earthquake also caused an enormous amount of fires to break out throughout the city. Not only did the state of California have to build up funds to reconstruct the city, but also other states and nations provided economic relief to help rebuild the ninth largest city in the United States. As one of the most metropolitan areas in the West Coast of the US, San Francisco had a humongous task at hand to make this once financial, trade, and cultural center flourish once again. The magnitude of the earthquake caused widespread destruction due to the geologic setting of San Francisco, but also the destruction of buildings was due to the makeshift quality of the construction of the city. If there were to be a repeat of the quake today, it could possibly be more devastating than the first one. Therefore, the economic affect that an earthquake the same size as the one in 1906 would have on California would be far more disastrous and far more expensive due to the heavily dense population, the many old buildings still in use, and the costly price of real estate today. California lies between two active plate boundaries known as the North American plate, which moves south,...
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...A seismic tremor (otherwise called a shudder, tremor or quake) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, coming about because of the sudden arrival of vitality in the Earth's lithosphere that makes seismic waves. Quakes can extend in size from those that are weak to the point that they can't be felt to those sufficiently vicious to hurl individuals around and decimate entire urban areas. The seismicity or seismic action of a territory alludes to the recurrence, sort and size of quakes experienced over a time frame, Quakes are measured utilizing estimations from seismometers. The minute size is the most well-known scale on which tremors bigger than roughly 5 are accounted for the whole globe. The more various quakes littler than greatness 5...
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...The 1960 Chile earthquake, also known as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake was the single most powerful earthquake ever recorded. The event took place in May 22 1960 during the afternoon (19:11 GMT). It lasted for 10 minutes during which it caused serious damage. The epicenter was located near a small town called Lumaco. The Valdivia earthquake was part of a series of quakes that battered Chile between May 21 and June 6. The catastrophic event had serious consequences. It triggered numerous natural disasters including landslides, tsunamis and seiches. Out of all of these the tsunamis caused the most damage as they reached far and wide. Affecting not only southern Chile but also Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, eastern New Zealand, southeast...
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