hazard that is the highest risk to the city is an earthquake. L.A. is the second largest city in the United States; it encompasses over 498 square miles and is surrounded by mountains and ocean. L.A. is a very urban environment, its high concentration of infrastructure makes it vulnerable to earthquakes, but at the same time it also gives it the resources it needs to respond to earthquakes or any other hazards. L.A. has had a few large scale earthquakes in the last decades and some geological experts
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damage and harm or kill people. The hazard will become a disaster if it does either of these things. Volcanic hazards are the include primary and secondary hazards posed by an eruption and seismic hazards include primary and secondary hazards of earthquakes. These events can affect many of the poorest people in the world but wealthier countries can also suffer as seen several times in Japan. Any management involves planning, prediction and action, all of which may cost considerable amounts of money
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Kobe earthquake in Japan 1995 struck at 5.45am. Many people were asleep in bed, causing the hazard to be increased because the people were unaware. Although many Japanese buildings were of aseismic design, the roofs of their houses were designed to withstand typhoons and so were very heavy. When the earthquake struck many people were crushed in their sleep. Also every year on 1st September Japan has national earthquake preparedness day to remember the 140000 that died in the Tokyo earthquake of 1923
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Introduction Every Californian resident knows what the phrase “The Big One” means: a tremendous earthquake that scientists predict will rock the state of California, which sits on the famous San Andreas Fault line, an 800-mile line of weakness that runs through California. Overland, it runs for 625 miles, running north-south from Point Arena in north San Francisco to the border with Mexico. The most risky stretch of this fault, the southern part, passes about 35 miles from Los Angeles. Being the
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“Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors (40)”. I agree to some extent about the statement above and that human factors can affect the impact of an earthquake hazard. A hazard is an object or process that has the potential to cause harm. Ground shaking, ground displacement and flooding are some of the hazards that are produced during an earthquake. In relation to the question above the type and severity of the impact can be affected by physical
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“Discuss the view that the impact of earthquake hazards depends primarily on human factors (40)”. I agree to some extent about the statement above and that human factors can affect the impact of an earthquake hazard. A hazard is an object or process that has the potential to cause harm. Ground shaking, ground displacement and flooding are some of the hazards that are produced during an earthquake. In relation to the question above the type and severity of the impact can be affected by physical
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The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 struck the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17th, resulting in mass eradication while encouraging safer apparatus for future generations. The 6.9 magnitude shock was centered near Loma Prieta Peak, which is pinpointed northeast of Santa Cruz on the San Andreas Fault Line. The shock took account for about sixty-seven deaths and four thousand injuries, resulting from collapsing structures; it is said that most injuries eventuated on and near the collapsed double-decker
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Right after christmas day also known as boxing day, a huge disaster happened. On of the worlds most deadliest tsunamis hit the indian ocean. This tsunami came to a shock because there was not many if any signs that a tsunami was coming. Even though this tsunami happened around 14 years ago it still has been affecting the places they were hit at. The hardest hit and most severely affected countries were India, Indonesia, because there was not many if any signs that a tsunami was coming. Even though
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Novel Review The “Princess Diaries” is the first volume novel that written by Meg Cabot. This novel tells about a young- American-teenage girl named Mia Thermopolis who lives with her Artist mother, Helen in Manhattan. Mia going to a private school called Albert Einstein High and included into unpopular students in her school. She has a lot of main problems that she should dealing like the non-vegetarian food at her school, making sure her cat, Fat Louie, doesn’t eat another sock, and her social
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Diary of Anne Frank: Paper Christopher Bauer On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank’s parents give her a diary. She’s excited because she wants someone, or something, in which to confide all of her secret thoughts. Even though she has a rich social life, she feels misunderstood by everyone she knows. Anne starts writing about daily events, her thoughts, school grades, boys, all that. But, within a month, her entire life changes. As Jews in German-occupied Holland, the Frank family fears for their
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