...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 of these natural hazards are needed to reduce the loss of life and limb. An earthquake is the sudden, rapid shaking or rolling of the Earth. In the Philippines, about 20 earthquakes are recorded per day and 200 per year. For the past 400 years, the Philippines had experienced about 90 destructive earthquakes one for every five years. Earthquakes happen because of volcanic activity and tectonic movements. It results to fault rupture, tsunami, ground shaking, liquefaction, landslide and fire. Faults- fractures where earthquake originates, there are different types of fault: strike slip, normal and thrust. Active faults move up & down while trenches move toward each other. The Valley Fault System has two segments, the East Valley Fault the West Valley Fault which covers Quezon, Marikina, Pasig, Makati, Pateros, Taguig and Muntinlupa. It has moved four times from the past 1600 years (an average of 400 years) per movement, generating earthquakes of magnitude 7. Magnitude is the...
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...Nepal Earthquake April 2015 Table Of Contents Intro How Did the way that P.M Sushil Koirala Handle The Crisis, and what was the impact on the people in kathmandu? What impact has the Earthquake had on Tourism in Kathmandu, and as a result how has society been impacted? Intro The April 2015 Earthquake in Nepal, also known as the Gorkha earthquake killed at least 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000. It effected four different countries.It took place on 25 April, with a magnitude of 7.8m on the rickter scale. Its epicenter was east of the district of Lamjung and its Hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 8.2 km. The earthquake was the worst natural disaster to hit Nepal since 1934. This is cctv footage...
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...California is known for its earthquakes. There are approximately 10,000 earthquakes in California every year. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only a few hindered are big enough to cause a scare. These earthquakes are a normal occurrence for Californians. In 2016 and 2017 California suffered a crazy drought, which ultimately leads to a massive amount of large Wildfires. In the Year of 2017, there were a total of 9,133 fires burned in California alone. This caused many short and long-term problems for California and surrounding states. Though legendary for the threat of earthquakes, the 2027 Wildfires were the worst thing to happen to California in the 21st century. The wildfires destroyed a lot of land and buildings during...
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...Earthquakes On October 17, 1989, as my family and I were preparing to watch game 3 of the World Series, a special news break announced that there had been a devastating earthquake that had struck the San Francisco bay area. News cameras quickly began showing the devastation that this magnitude 6.9 earthquake had wrought. Buildings were on the verge of collapse and the two tier bay bridge had partially collapsed trapping hundreds of motorists. 63 people lost their lives due to the earthquake, 3,500 were injured and over 100,000 buildings were damaged (bbc.co.uk, 2005). Earthquakes are notorious throughout history as devastating phenomena, but what causes them? In order to understand what makes the earth tremble so violently, you have to delve deep under the Earth’s surface. At one time, scientists thought that the earth’s crust or Lithosphere was continuous without any breaks or cracks but in the 1960’s, new research showed that the lithosphere was actually a fluid puzzle of irregular segments, or plates. These plates are made up of cool, solid rock that is four to forty miles thick. These enormous blocks of Earth’s crust vary in size and shape and cut through continents and oceans. There are nine major plates. Six of them are named for the continents they are embedded in: the North American, South American, Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, and the Antarctic. The other three are oceanic plates called the Pacific, Nazca and Cocos plates. These plates are in constant...
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...The Affects Natural Disasters have on Countries By: There are many natural disasters that occur throughout the earth in many countries. Some natural disasters are devastating killing the lives of men and the environment they live in. Other natural disasters are portrayed to be just a bad day created by Mother Nature to just pass by. Overall, the natural disasters that can be catastrophic to people on earth are hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. All three natural disasters occur in many countries. Hurricanes are common in the United State of America, earthquakes are common in Mexico, and tsunamis are common in Japan. These three countries have experienced the worst damage from these natural disasters. The countries had to watch their people die, find a way to recover physically and mentally, and suffer from billions of dollars in damages. These people practically lose everything and have to find a way to rebuild what was lost. In order to save lives and help reduce damage from natural disasters, mankind has come a long way in technology to predict the size and location of each natural disaster’s destruction. Technology is not the same as it was one hundred years ago. With the help from NASA and scientists all over the world, people are able to give out broadcasted warnings to millions of people of the natural disaster that’s about to hit. All in all, technology has saved many lives from natural disasters but mankind is still trying to find a way in reducing damage from...
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...safely rescues the girl moments before the car falls into the cliff. In CALTECH, Dr. Kim Park (Will Yun Lee) receives a data of minor earthquakes in Falco, Nevada and shows it to his collegue and seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti). The minor quakes measure 2.0 to 2.6. Hayes is curious of why such a minor quakes can produce even there are no faults in Nevada. Hayes and Park decide to go to Nevada to test the theory. While Ray is calling for his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), for the upcoming trip to San Francisco, he receives a divorce papers. Recently, he is divorced from his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and she is now with his new boyfriend Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd). Meanwhile, at the Hoover Dam, along with Hayes, Park is now testing a magnetic pulse of quake. Suddenly, his device detects a sudden spike pulse then a stronger earthquake triggers. It measures 7.0 that ever recorded. As the dam starting to break, Park struggles to escape while Hayes tells the people, still on the dam, to get out of it. Park has now exits the dam facility, however when he sees the girl - staying beside the dam while crying - he carries her out. After rescued the girl, Park is being impaled by a rod in his right foot. The dam completely crumbles and Park is killed. The disaster leading to the flooding in most town and the earthquake was the strongest and destructive ever recorded in Nevada's history. Back to California, Ray arrives...
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...INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 1.1. WRIST WATCH INDUSTRY Wrist Watches form an integral part of the personality of individuals in the present era. Earlier seen as a luxury item, they are now witnessing a fundamental change in perception, and are now gaining respect as an essential utility item. For the watch industry, time seems in its favour what with the liberalization of the Indian market coupled with the rising purchasing power of the young and consumerist Indians. Indian watches market was for long dominated by public sector organisations like Hindustan Machine Tools Ltd. (HMT) and Allwyn (also famous for its refrigerators once upon a time!), and has now left the pioneers far behind or nowhere in market by private sector enterprises like Titan, Sonata, Ajanta and Timex along with foreign entities jostling for display space in the smallest of shops selling these products. Before the establishment of HMT as the dominant player in the Indian markets initially, the country was solely dependent on imports to meet the internal demand. However, establishment of HMT as the leading player in the wrist watch segment in the 1960’s, changed the scenario. In post liberalization India, the market stood to witness intensive competition between foreign and Indian manufacturers like Timex, Titan, Movado, Longines, Rado, Rolex, Fréderique Constant, Mont Blanc, Swatch, and many others. Many watch makers have made significant inroads in the industry and others are in the process of establishing themselves...
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...My weekends are not so busy, so I can really relax. On satuday, I usually cook my breakfast by myself. In the morning, I often clean my room. Then I watch TV, read, and listen to music in the afternoons. After that, I usually play sport with my friends till the dinner. . I like playing sports, but I don’t have much time for it in working-days, so I often play sports more on weekends. After dinner, I do my homework while I listen to music. Last Saturday was busy. I got up later than usual on Sunday morning. After breakfast I went over to my friend's house and spent times doing homework there. We work till lunch-time. then I went home, had lunch with my parents and took an afternoon nap. Taking an afternoon nap is a pleasure that I can indulge in only on weekends. On weekdays I do not have time for it. The rest of the afternoon I helped my father in the garden. there're a lot of flowers and plants in our garden. We continued until darkness fell. After that I take a bath and help my mother repare the dinner. In the diner, my parents usually say some interesting stories so I really enjoy it. After dinner I watched television until it was time for bed. I often go to bed at 10 p.m to get up early on Monday. I like my weekends. My weekends is often fully filled with relaxing actions. I like playing sports, but I don’t have much time for it in working-days, so I often play sports more on weekends. My favourite sports is badminton. I often get up at 7am on Satuday and go...
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...According to the research 71 percent of people have seen the adds and 100 percent of the merchants have seen the adds with Krysten Neiman. Most of the people that took the survey think that the ads are affective. Some agree that it makes them proud to be wearing an Aquine watch. The other suggestion was that the quality of the watches was falling and that that had been affecting the sales of the watches. According to our data 60 percent of Aquice owners have the certified watches. The majority of the people surveyed though that the certification was proof of quality and they also agreed that they were willing to pay more for the quality. People surveyed were willing to pay between $1,001 and $1,500 for the chronometer (SOCC) certified watches. So my conclusion is that we should invest money in purchasing a Poising machine to poise the balance wheel that determines the accuracy of the movement in various positions. We also need to invest in purchasing movement holders that help in better assembling the watch that in turn improves the movement of the watch in different positions. Lastly I also recommend that we invest in purchasing a timing machine that is used to diagnose movement performance of a watch while it is being assembled. Our customers know our product and they are willing to buy it. This indicates that we don’t need to improve our advertisements or choose another spokes person to endorse our product. Our customers are interested in buying our products but...
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...Submitted By Group 2: Arunava Maity, Firoj Kumar Meher, Parvez Izhar, Pooja Sharma 1940’s- The Swiss dominated the watch industry because of their centuries-long history of jewelry-making expertise. Prior to the 1950s, watchmaking was a craft that required the skills of a master jewelry maker combined with the expertise of a micromechanical engineer. 1945’s-By 1945, The Swiss accounted for 80% of the world’s total watch production and 99% of all U.S. imports. 1951-Emergence of Low Cost Competition. U.S. Time introduced a line of disposable watches bearing the Timex brand name. Timex was selling its watches through a variety of low-priced outlets such as drugstores and discount houses. By the end of the 1950s, one out of every three watches bought in the United States was a Timex, 1970 –By 1970’sTimex was selling more watches than any other manufacturer in the world. 1970’s- During the same time, several Japanese companies like Hattori-Seiko and Citizen—had taken over the Asian market and were trying to cover up Europe and North America. As a result, the Swiss share of the global market declined, from 80% in 1946 to just 42% in 1970. The Introduction of Quartz Technology * Made use of quartz and integrated circuits * Provided Accuracy, more sophisticated functionality, more features like day & time·, Digital display, Analog watches. * Cheaper in cost of manufacturing. * A wide Price range, starting from $8 to $20, today even below $5. * Introduction of analog...
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...1950’s. They say that even back then a lot of television was filled with destructive acts. From talking to my grandparents television was not as much of a necessity as we believe it to be today. Being the society that has to be entertained around the clock, we just do not think about what is going into our children’s heads. It seems to affect children more, because their behavior patterns are still developing, and are very vulnerable, and we don’t want them to develop into what they see on TV. Children who watch television a lot of the time become less aware to the pain and suffering of other people around them. If they are always in front of the tube, and just sit there, and soak in all of that bad stuff they are seeing, they become not as aware as they should be. When terrible acts of violence happen in the children’s life that do watch a lot of TV, they are not as aroused by the acts going on in front of them. It is not as disturbing as it would be for a child who does not watch a lot of violent television. A study was shown that a child who had watched a violent television show such as The Power Rangers, rather than a nonviolent show like My Little Pony, were slower getting involved when they saw a younger child getting beat up or playing...
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...live in today that it is mandatory to have surveillance all around. Prisoners are being watched under the surveillance and control of power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement who internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. My father is incarcerated and his whole life is controlled by the surveillance of power. When I visit him on Saturdays I have to watch how I place my hands in my pocket; any kind of hand gesture I make I have to be very careful because they are watching me. They watch the way I hug my dad, they watch the way we talk; the hour that I have to spend with my father I am under security watch. At any point of time during that visit if they “see” something wrong as they are “watching” us they can pull me from my visit. While I complain about being under surveillance for an hour, I have to remember he goes through it every day. Someone is there to watch him use the restrooms, internet eat and go to church. Not to mention he has only two phone calls a day each fifteen minutes, which is recorded and monitored. If the wrong word is slipped upon in a conversation he will see the dungeon sooner than later. Angela Peterson, a cousin of mine attended Felician...
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...Probability Distribution in Research Simulation Sheil Merrill RES/341 August 16, 2011 Richard Harrell Aquine is ready to take a greater share of the chronometer market. As you know the chronometer market is the highest priced watch market with chronometers being sold for more than five thousand dollars. It is Aquine’s goal to compete with the established chronometer manufacturers Zweiger, Scheobel, and Waechter. This was the primary reason why Chief Executive Officer Howard Gray hired experienced Swiss watch maker Jean Dubois to head the Mechanical Watches Division. We have an aggressive advertisement campaign with race car driver Kyrsten Nieman which recent surveys have shown is attracting customers. Aquine watches have consistently received high marks in four of the seven tests administered by the Swiss Official Chronometer Control. Aquine is ready to make several investments which will move it from the role of the “new comer” to the Chronometer market to an established competitor. The Swiss Official Chronometer Control (SOCC) is the only agency which can give a watch the coveted “Chronometer” label. The SOCC rejected sixty seven percent (67%) of Aquine watches submitted for “Chronometer” certification. This figure is up from fifty four percent (54%) last year and up from thirty two percent (32%) in the first year Aquine first submitted watches for “Chronometer” certification. The three tests which Aquine watches are consistently failing at SOCC are...
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...22, 2004 YOUNGME MOON The Birth of the Swatch Ten years ago, the people on the original Swatch team asked a crazy question: Why can’t we design a striking, low-cost, high-quality watch and build it in Switzerland? The bankers were skeptical. A few suppliers refused to sell us parts. They said we would ruin the industry with this crazy product. But the team overcame the resistance and got the job done. — Nicolas Hayek1 In 1993, Swatch was the best-selling watch in the history of the watch industry. In 1992 alone, it sold 27 million units, while cumulative sales surpassed 100 million units (see Exhibit 1). In addition, it was widely acknowledged that the entire Swiss watch industry had been on the brink of disaster when the Swatch had been introduced 10 years ago; the phenomenal success of the Swatch was considered by many to have been a key factor in its resurgence. At the management level, much of the credit for the turnaround had been directed toward Nicolas Hayek, CEO of the Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d’Horlogerie (SMH), which controlled nine global Swiss brands including Swatch. Over the past 10 years, Hayek had led the way for the success of the Swatch by committing SMH to a business strategy that in many ways defied industry wisdom about how global watch companies should be run. This strategy was based on a strict commitment to vertical integration (the company assembled all of the watches it sold and built most of the components for the...
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...SWATCH Watch U.S.A.: Creative Marketing Strategy “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible” - JONATHAN SWIFT INTRODUCTION As speaker after speaker paid tribute to the extraordinary skills that had earned him the award of “Marketing Executive of the Year”, Max Imgruth, President of Swatch Watch U.S.A., grew more and more uneasy. Fully confident that the product that changed the watch industry forever, the Swatch watch, would enjoy continued success, Imgruth nonetheless left the need to change gears, The competition, which was at first slow to react, had begun to implement strategies that stood to erode Swatch’s position. Gazing from his privileged plane on the dais, Imgruth saw an audience that was content to rehash past successes for a night, which was nice, but no at all his style. Imgruth had recently guided his company through a fast paced and, some would say, controversial diversification program. Having already achieved spectacular success with the Swatch watch, Imgruth spearheaded a plan to establish Swatch as a total fashion enterprise. This move was accompanied by a good deal of skepticism from colleague and competitor alike. His next objective was to make sure that this year’s # 1 marketing executive did not become one of the decade’s more memorable disappointments.1 BACKGROUND-THE SWISS WATCH INDUSTRY 1985 was a good year for the Swiss watch industry. The number of finished watches shipped abroad rose 41 percent to 25.1 million and the value of watch exports...
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