Reawaking from disasters Natural disasters have destroyed lives and treasured possessions, but it is the way a people respond to the natural disasters that defines them and identifies them as a culture. Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on March 11. The magnitude-9.0 quake spawned a deadly tsunami that slammed into the small island nation, leaving a huge swath of devastation in its wake. Thousands of people are dead and many more are still missing or injured; almost
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can be single-handedly wiped out when a single event occurs (Wisner 2006, 6). The sudden spate of disastrous earthquakes in the Americas cause concerns. Within a span of 45 days, two earthquakes hit Haiti and Chile. An earthquake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, knocking down buildings and power lines and killing over 200,000 people. While the earthquake that devastated Chile, measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale on February 27 was 500 times more powerful; yet the
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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
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favor to what countries receive them. Along the Pacific Ocean rim which is known as the circum Pacific seismic belt where the most of the earth quakes and tsunamis occur at the rate of eighty one percent more than anywhere in the world.( Earthquake Facts and Earthquake Fantasy, 2009, pp. 1-4). This belt stretches beginning with Chile moving northward along the South America coast through Central America, Mexico, west coast of the United States, Alaska, only through the southern parts of Alaska, Japan
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kind of people use it, to children of 5 years up to old timers. A recent earthquake showed that the “ShakeAlert System” really works. 10 seconds before the start of the 6.0 magnitude earthquake in California, a group of investigators of the university of UC Berkley received an alert that the earthquake was going to happen. Therefore, the objective of this system is to alert you 40 or 50 seconds before the earthquake, this will be very helpful. But now a 10 second “alert” will be enough time
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write a letter to Mr Lam, a teacher from your school, to see if he could help for organising some activities. 1. Write it in a polite and formal way 2. to point out the problems of Japan after the earthquake 3. to suggest some activities helping for fund raising Problems: 2011 JapanTohoku earthquake and tsunami Homeless ( adj) Building / railway / collasped / damaged injury and death nuclear disaster What they need : money medicine water helper love Fund raising
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What is EARTHQUAKE ? An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that createsseismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire
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INTRODUCTION N oise is acoustically made up of numerous sound waves with anarchically distributed amplitude and phase ratios, causing an unpleasant sensation1. Noise can be continuous - when there is no variation in terms of sound pressure nor sound spectrum; floating - when it presents variations in terms of acoustic energy in function of time; or impact noise - with acoustic energy peaks lasting for less than a second, at intervals greater than one second2. Impact noises are usually produced by
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shareholders’ value (Rio Tinto 2012). Rio Tinto, Japan faced a great deal of issues due to the earthquake (Vibert 2011). For instance, employees are losing of direction when business is to recommence. Most of the infrastructures such as power systems, public transports and communication channels in disaster-affected areas are destroyed. Furthermore, there are a great deals of uncertainties arose due to the earthquake and its aftermath especially the effect of radioactive contamination on water supply. Lacking
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GÖLCÜK & 2011 VAN EARTHQUAKES Göksu ÇELEBİ Hatice İrem GÜNAYDIN Ece ÖMÜR The aim of the project The aim of this project is to examine fatal consequences of Gölcük and Van earthquakes which are arising from engineering errors. 1999 Gölcük Earthquake This earthquake, whose eppicenter is
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