...country, University of Utah researchers found. Share This: 125 "We detected seismic waves created by the oceans waves both hitting the East Coast and smashing into each other," with the most intense seismic activity recorded when Sandy turned toward Long Island, New York and New Jersey, says Keith Koper, director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. "We were able to track the hurricane by looking at the 'microseisms' [relatively small seismic waves] generated by Sandy," says Oner Sufri, a University of Utah geology and geophysics doctoral student and first author of the study with Koper. "As the storm turned west-northwest, the seismometers lit up." Sufri was scheduled to present the preliminary, unpublished findings in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 18 during the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting. There is no magnitude scale for the microseisms generated by Sandy, but Koper says they range from roughly 2 to 3 on a quake magnitude scale. The conversion is difficult because earthquakes pack a quick punch, while storms unleash their energy for many hours. The shaking was caused partly by waves hitting the East Coast, but much more by waves colliding with other waves in the ocean, setting up "standing waves" that reach the seafloor and transmit energy to it, Sufri and Koper say. While many people may not realize it, earthquakes are not the only events that generate seismic waves. So do mining and mine collapses; storm winds, waves and tornadoes; traffic...
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...E E 1.26 in 400/1.26=317.46km/inch E=35.5 N 119 W Determining the Epicenter Using 3 Seismographs Michelle Veitz This study determines the exact epicenter of a fictitious earthquake. Using 3 different seismograph reports from three locations (Albuquerque, Boise and Sacramento) and a map, we are able to pinpoint the exact epicenter. The epicenter was estimated to be 35.5 degrees North latitude and 119 degrees West longitude. Partial information was provided in a grid format regarding seismographic data of 3 locations. Using a seismograph report from location Albuquerque, Δt was determined. Using Vp and Vs provided, tp and distance to the epicenter was determined using formulas provided by the professor. After determining a scale for the map, the radial distance was determined by dividing the distance to the epicenter by the appropriate scale. Circles were placed around each location based off of those calculations. At the intersecting point of all three circles is the epicenter for this particular earthquake. These calculations are found in the grid below. Using a measurement of 24 seconds per tic mark on the seismograph, 96 seconds was used as the Δt for Albuquerque. Δt was given as 79.58 sec for Boise and 30.96 for Sacramento. Vp was given as 6.01 km/sec and Vs was given as 4.1 km/sec. Using the formula, tp = (Vs * ∆t) / (Vp – Vs), tp was determined for all 3 locations. Using formula Dist. = Vp km/sec * tp sec, the distances to the epicenter was calculated...
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...Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don't just slide smoothly; the rocks catch on each other. The rocks are still pushing against each other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break because of all the pressure that's built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs. During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above the focus (on top of the ground) is called the epicentre of the earthquake.  Haiti Earthquake: What? A 7.0 magnitude earthquake When?12th January 2010 at 16.53 local time (21.53 GMT). Where?The earthquake occurred 18.457°N, 72.533°W. The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. The short term effects of the Haiti earthquake are· Buildings being destroyed, roads and docks. Making it difficult to get aid to the people who need it. Example food, clean drinking water, clothes, cooking utensils, temporally shelters and most importantly drugs and medicines. · Without clean drinking water and dead bodies rotting in the hot sun the risk of life threatening diseases...
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...Earthquakes and fault lines Scientists and geologists have a pretty good understanding of how the plates move and how this is related to earthquake activity. There are four different types of plate boundaries. First we have Divergent boundaries, where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Second we have Convergent boundaries and this is where the crust is destroyed as one plate is forced under another. Third we have the transform boundaries and this is where the crust is not created or destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past the other. Last we have Plate boundary zones where broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and plate interactions are not clearly understood. The best known divergent boundaries is the mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is a submerged mountain range, which extends from the Arctic Ocean down South of Africa. This mountain range has been spreading apart for millions of years, which allows new magma to surface thus increasing the size of the mountains 2.5 centimeters each year. The two plates involved here are the American and the Eurasian plates and they are separating Iceland. The convergent boundaries are where the crust is being destroyed at about the same rate as it is being replaced in other areas of the world. These boundaries are long and deep trenches in the ocean and it are created by one plate being forced under another. These areas include the ring of fire which is a geographic region that has volcanoes that are...
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...Mario Salgado Earthquakes Science SC300 Unit 4 May 12, 2011 Professor Jayne Yenko Earthquakes There are not many things in life that petrify me but earthquakes are pretty high on the list. Just the uncertainty of not knowing if this could be the next big one. Realistically speaking, where can you go to be safe from an earthquake? Luckily for me, there seems to be no great danger of earthquakes in the southeast region of the US. I live in Atlanta, Ga. and according to the map fig.17-22** in our text it seems that we are in a blue low risk area, where individual measurements of seismic wave velocities reveal cooler rocks under the southeastern US. However, just a little further northwest of Georgia according to the seismic map in the USGC website* there seems to be a small area of higher earthquake activity between Missouri, and Tennessee. The Midwest seems to be free of earthquakes while the west coast has an abundance of earthquake activity. California has the 2nd highest amount of earthquake activity in the US, after Alaska that produces more than half the earthquakes in the country. The earth has three major subduction zones. The first is a large area called the pacific ring of fire, this includes North and South America the east coast of Asia, and the western pacific islands of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. Most of the plates are being subducted, while some plates scrape past each other. The second major divergent or earthquake...
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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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...useful information for catastrophic loss reduction, and assist in the development of guidelines for sustainable land use planning. The analysis is used to identify the factors that are related to landslides, estimate the relative contribution of factors causing slope failures, establish a relation between the factors and landslides, and to predict the landslide hazard in the future based on such a relationship (Tenalem Ayenew and Barbieri, 2004; Henok Woldegiorgis et al., 2014, Shiferaw Ayele et al., 2014). The factors that have been used for landslide hazard analysis can usually be grouped into geomorphology, geology, land use/land cover, and hydrogeology. Landslide hazard zonation can also be made using ‘Slope stability susceptibility evaluation parameter (SSEP)’ rating scheme (Raghuvanshi et al., 2014). Since many factors are considered for landslide hazard mapping, GIS is an appropriate tool because it has functions of collection, storage, manipulation, display, and analysis of large amounts of spatially referenced data which can be handled fast and effectively (Berhanu Temesigen et al., 2001). Remote sensing techniques are also highly employed for landslide hazard assessment and analysis (Getachew Lemmesa et al., 2000; Berhanu Temesigen et al., 2001). Before and after aerial photographs and satellite imagery are used to gather landslide characteristics, like distribution and classification, and factors like slope, lithology, and land use/land cover to be used to help predict...
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...Discuss the view that the impact of earthquakes depends primarily on human factors: Earthquakes are caused by movement of tectonic plates that covering the earth’s surface. They occur at all plate boundaries; destructive, constructive and conservative, but the most intense tend to occur at subduction zones and conservative faults, such as the San Andres Fault in California. Every seismic event will be unique, and there are many factors influencing the extent to which it will have an impact on the environment and the populace. In many situations, both physical factors, related to the nature of the event and the topography of the area, and human factors, linked to demography and land use, have an influence on the effects of a hazard. When evaluating the impacts of an earthquake, the demography of an area will almost certainly have a large influence. Clearly, a very densely populated area will be more likely to have a higher death toll or a wider radius of influence than an event occurring in a more sparsely populated area, due to the simple fact that there are more people in the same amount of space to be affected. However it is not just this statistical fact that leads to a more people being affected. In many LEDC’s, the highest population density occurs in slum areas and shanty towns. The people living in these areas are ill equipped to cope with the effects of an earthquake due to a combination of factors, mostly centred around the conditions in which they live. The same is true...
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...Employee Evaluation Form |I. Employee Information | |Employee Name |Job Title | |Supervisor/Reviewer |Review Period | | |From: / / To: / / | |II. Core Values and Objectives | |Performance Category |Rating |Comments and Examples | |Quality of Work: |( Exceeds expectations | | |Work is completed accurately (few or no |( Meets expectations | | |errors), efficiently and within deadlines with |( Needs improvement | | |minimal supervision |( Unacceptable | | |Attendance & Punctuality: ...
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...Kristal Charles November 11, 2013 EDU 225 Christy Faux Software to Support Assessment Using assessments can be very a very difficult part of teaching. Evaluating a child’s performance in school can be very hard, but a necessary part of the educational process. For many, assessments mean test. Students and parents view these assessments as a way to out-do their classmates and compete to see who is able to get the highest grade. They don’t view these assessments as a way to know if they understand the things being taught. Assessments are created to serve a purpose. They help diagnose learning disabilities, identify a student in need, and help the district meet their yearly goals Technology to Facilitate Ongoing Efforts to Assess Student Learning Teachers are able to use technology in many different ways. Teachers us observation, making adjustments when needed in a lesson, communication, written assignments, and giving tests to help each student know their strengths, and weaknesses. To make sure no child is left behind a teacher needs to evaluate the child’s daily, monthly, and quarterly progress. This will help the teacher understand what is each child still needs help on. By modifying the curriculum for some of the children this will help each one individually. Students should have the opportunity to use assessments in their class to help understand all the tasks that are being assigned during. The software being used can include many things. Including presentation...
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...Self- Assessment Orlando Polite Juanita Murrell BUS 520 – Leadership and Organizational October 21, 2013 The Johari Window is for improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals. It can also be used to assess and improve relationships with others. Recognizing what others see in us is something that we may not be aware of and accept. One must believe and trust an individual before sharing personal information ("Johari Window," 2010). This paper will discuss some profiles of my personality characteristics and evaluation results. Also summarize assessment results. Then analyze how the scores play a part with relationships and career choices. The profile of my features displays my personal preference and is consistently decisive. I tend to get work done under stressful conditions. I show a lot of positive feedback as a manager. I am extremely confident with my work and decisions. Managers are not perfect, so we tend to make mistakes and learn from them. Being able to take criticism makes an individual a better person and a good manager. Being able to work long hours and with standing prejudices and biases situation is one of my strong points (Schermerhorn, Osborn, Uhl-Bien & Hunt, 2012). My primary mission as a leader is change. I have a lot of concern on what my employers want in life and always thinking of the long term. In this position, I am not only a leader but a teacher. Employees...
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...WEEK 8 ASSIGNMENT 2 Creating Your Dream Job STUDENT: NDOWAR, TECUMSAY PROFESSOR: MCGRATH, CHRISTOPHER BUS310 DATE: DECEMBER 1, 2013 PAGE 1 Create a job description and specifications for your dream job. Research and Development Specialist Job Description: Execute and lead all product research and development activities for approved business initiatives in a cross-functional and collaborative manner in an effort to support in coordinating design, development, validation, and documentation of systems & components. Provide technical support in response to customer needs and typically interacting with engineers at commercial, industrial, and other establishments. Collaborate with other personnel throughout the organization. Assess customer needs and develop solutions utilizing company resources to meet those needs. Communicate project specifics with company’s operational personnel to ensure that the objective of the project is accomplished in accordance with the customers schedule and needs. Provide accurate and current progress reports to management on the status of work activities including critical customer-related activities, and other projects as assigned. Product development, product improvement and product testing. Lab and Field performance testing. Project specific performance improvements. Customer correspondence for all...
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...Central Luzon Division of City Schools DAYOS COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Makati City S.Y. 2014 – 2015 VISION/MISSION The institution aims to empower the students to become successful and productive individuals of the society by building programs that will help them further develop their skills and give them knowledge and values that they can use in the future. The institution is committed to provide activities and offering services that will hone them to become competent individuals in the future. GUIDANCE SERVICES/PROGRAMS | SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES | ACTIVITY/METHODS/STRATEGIES | TIME FRAME | MATERIALS | TARGET PARTICIPANTS | Testing Services * Entrance Examination * Personality Tests * Mental Ability * Aptitude Tests * Achievement tests * Assessment of Values and Habits * Emotional adjustment | * The students will be able to gain further knowledge about their strengths and weaknesses * The guidance counselor and teachers will be able to provide basis for research and information on other needs of the student * The students will be able to know their potentials | * Notification of applicants * Administration and scoring of tests * Interpretation of tests results * Dissemination of test results | * April to May 2014 * All year round | * Test papers * Folders | * Incoming First Year College Students * All Students | Information Services * EnrollmentOrientation * Consultation Information Forum | * To provide...
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...components and ensure that each component has been adequately met. According to Louwers, Ramsay, Sinason, and Strawser (2007) the five components to internal controls include: 1. Control environment – Involves the tone of the organization and includes “the integrity, ethical values, and competence of the company's people” (Louwers, Ramsay, Sinason, & Strawser, 2007). 2. Risk assessment – Involves a thorough assessment which “identify(s) risks, estimate their significance and likelihood, and consider how to manage the risks” (Louwers, Ramsay, Sinason, & Strawser, 2007). 3. Control activities – Involve specific actions which help ensure that management’s objectives and expectations are carried out. 4. Monitoring – Ongoing evaluation of internal controls performed on a timely basis. 5. Information and Communication – Relates to the efficiency and reliability of information and communication refers to how the information is presented to communicated to users. |Defining the Control Environment |Yes/No | |Is there a clear method of assigning authority and responsibility? | | |Is there a clear transparency within the audit trail? | | |Are company policies and practices accessible understood at the employee level? ...
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...COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS AUTHOUR: Joseph J. Martocchio PUBLISHER: Pearson Education International DATE: 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-254706-2 1. Table of Content (Building Internally Consistent Compensation Systems) Introduction 124 Determinants of Internal Consistency 125 Job Analysis 125 Steps in the Job Analysis Process 126-129 Job Analysis Techniques 131 O*NET 131-137 Job Evaluation 137 Compensable Factors 137-139 Job Evaluation Process 139-140 Job Evaluation Techniques 140 The Point Method 141-143 Alternative Job-Content Evaluation Approaches 144-145 Alternatives to Job Evaluation 145-146 Limitations to Internally Consistent Compensation Systems 146 2. Why I selected this Book: HRMN 330 Course Requirement 3. Theme (Key Quote): “Internally consistent job structures formally recognize differences in the job characteristics that enable compensation managers to set pay accordingly.” 4. Abstract: The purpose of this book is to provide knowledge of the art and science of compensation practice and its role in promoting companies’ competitive advantage. Compensating employees represents a critical human resource management practice: without such companies cannot attract, retain nor motivate best qualified employees. 5. Introduction Internally Consistent Compensation Systems define the relative value of each job when compared with all jobs within the organisation...
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