Intensity IX earthquake, and emergency housing needs. It will also identify actions homeowners can use to help prevent future structural damages, and give more information on possible effects of an Intensity IX earthquake. The assessment report will identify danger of a failing dam, and provide further understanding of the elements which will include an emergency plan. The table that follows is an assessment of the number of people needing emergency housing due to an Intensity IX earthquake.
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Disaster is imminent. Every single day a disaster occurs somewhere in the world. From buildings being annihilated by earthquakes and tornados to immeasurable deaths caused by mass starvation and man-made explosions, we are plagued by disastrous events. It is within these calamities that the best and worst of human nature emerge. Elites and their institutions expect and thus engender a culture of panic within disaster while ordinary citizens are the ones to emerge triumphant; media and Hollywood in
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to the line of the fault,) however, when no surface deformation was formed, scientists found that the earthquake was actually caused by contractional deformation along the Léogâne fault. Make sure you have maps indicating where in the world Haiti is, and where this fault is in relation to Haiti. The tremor was shallow, occurring at a depth of 13km, which increased the intensity of the Earthquake. Apart from the obvious environmental impacts that come with
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Some scientists discovered the historical and scientific evidence for a megathrust earthquake that generated a tsunami along the Cascadian subduction zone in 1700. A few geologists used radiocarbon dating and found that at least 900 kilometers (560 miles) along the fault ruptured between 1960 and 1720 (National Geographic Society [NGS], 1996). In 1996, Japanese researchers showed North American colleagues a tsunami that struck Honshu Island in 1700 to geological reports at the Cascadia subduction
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Really Happen When San Andreas Unleashes the Big One?” is an informative text of the earthquake set to greatly impact California possibly in the next 30 years. The movie San Andreas paints a very unrealistic picture for what the “Big One” will actually look like. There will probably be no huge tsunamis or split-up cities but there will be many roads and power lines split up and a lot of blowback after all of the earthquakes because much of the minimum water supply will be gone. Scientists are working with
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tremendous earthquake occurred in Fukushima, where locates in East part of Japan. It was a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 and resulted in a great tsunami which struck a wide area of north-eastern coast of Japan right after the earthquake. The earthquake firstly damaged the electric power supply lines of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the tsunami caused catastrophic destruction of the operational and safety infrastructure on the site. The combination of effect from earthquake and tsunami
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You must protect your roof because your roof protects your home and everything in it. Without a properly installed roof, you may lose your home and everything in it. The roof is also a big expense when it comes to repairs and roof leaks can happen quickly and grow over time. When a roof leaks, it could be due to the shingles not repaired properly or have aged too much and become brittle and break off during wind storms and harsh downpours allowing the water to go directly onto the structure of the
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Mount Vesuvius- Natural Disaster By: Arianya Sather-Gonzalez Period:6 Mount Vesuvius’ eruption caused mass destruction and many deaths. It was a drastic event that has been recorded in the hearts of many. This great tragedy occurred on the 24th of August, 79 AD. Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in Italy, erupted in a rather unexpected way. Mount Vesuvius sprayed poisonous volcanic gases, and sent clouds of ash into the air. If you weren’t crushed and suffocated by ash, you choked to death on the
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especially those who live by the site. Fracking is done by injecting very high pressurized mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into the earth to break shale rock to release oil and/or gas to be used. Doing it this way has been connected to earthquakes occurring. Many people do not like this side effect of fracking, and are therefore discarding the idea of fracking. Fracking can also use fresh water to push out the oil and/or gas. By doing it this way a large amount of fresh water is used instead
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Pinatubo’s eruption. One of the precursors is the Luzon earthquake. This earthquake occurred 100 kilometers northeast of Mount Pinatubo, on the island of Luzon. The earthquake happened on July 16, 1990, which is almost a year prior to the volcano eruption event. The earthquake was measured at the magnitude of 7.8, the highest magnitude which was recorded in 1990.This earthquake is as strong as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake(USGS 2005). This earthquake caused shaking movement of the earth’s crust beneath
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