04/17/2012 What Causes Earthquakes It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. “Charles Kuralt” Earthquakes as the name implies are among the earth’s natural disasters. Earthquakes are mother nature. Earthquakes are the trembling or shaking caused by sudden release of energy which usually associated with faulting or breaking on rocks. The tectonic plates are always moving. The moving causes the earthquakes and the earthquakes causes disasters
Words: 328 - Pages: 2
phenomena such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, tsunami, and seiches without loss of capability to perform their safety functions. Required Investigation for Vibratory Ground Motion. The purpose of the investigations required by this paragraph is to obtain information needed to describe the vibratory ground motion produced by the Safe Shutdown Earthquake. All of the steps in paragraphs (a)(5) through (a)(8) of this section need not be carried out if the Safe Shutdown Earthquake can be clearly
Words: 1943 - Pages: 8
series of long wavelength water waves caused by a sudden vertical displacement of the ocean's surface. When the waves reach the shore, they rear up and break, and can be many feet high. Tsunamis can reach far inland. Most are caused by underwater earthquakes at or near subduction zones. Rare but much larger tsunamis can be produced by landslides into the ocean or underwater landslides. Any impulsive event that produces a localized surface displacement of an ocean or large lake can produce tsunamis
Words: 451 - Pages: 2
the East. Chiles highest point is Nevado Ojas del Salado which stands at 6, 880 m. Chile has many natural resources including, Copper Timber, Iron Ore, Nitrates, Precious Metals, Molybdenum and Hydropower. It’s Natural Hazards include severe earthquakes, active
Words: 1134 - Pages: 5
Areal Extent – tsunami Other factors - economic development Scientific understanding Location Conclusion - why chose case studies Nevado del Ruiz Loma Prieta Introduction Tectonic hazards pose significant challenges to humans. Earthquakes alone have claimed over 1 million lives in the last 100 years. A tectonic hazard can be defined as an event occurring due to movement or deformation of the earth’s crust with the potential to
Words: 2871 - Pages: 12
Psychological impacts of Japan earthquake could linger for years The Japanese are beginning to pick up the pieces after Friday's earthquake -- but it could take much longer for their society to heal Alexandra Pope, staff writer March 13, 2011 — As victims of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami begin the long process of picking up the pieces, an expert on the country's culture and society says the psychological impacts of the disaster could be felt for generations. It could be
Words: 527 - Pages: 3
RHODES UNIVERSITY – EARTH SCIENCE 101 ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Name: | Sopazi, Sebenzile | Student Number: | G11s5764 | Course: | Earth101 | Lecturer/Tutor: | Mark Raines | Title: | Magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake | Word Count: | 420 | Due Date: | 9 March 2012 | Date of Electronic Submission | 09March 2012 | Date of Hardcopy Submission | 09 March 2012 | PLAGIARISM DECLARATION (adapted from the declaration presented in the Rhodes University Plagiarism Policy: http://scifac.ru.ac.za/plag2008
Words: 885 - Pages: 4
Earthquakes and Other Tectonic Disturbances Pose One of the Major Physical Threats to Civilisations Particularly in Developing Countries The major factors to this will be looking at tectonic activity, the earthquakes they cause aswell as the distribution of these developing civilisations in order to ascertain whether the major threat to their final goal of civilisation is plausible or not. Earthquakes are defined in the Oxford dictionary as: a sudden release of energy in the earth's crust or
Words: 748 - Pages: 3
mainland lies, is being clutched upwardly near the Aegean Sea (Kutluca A. K., 2004). Both plates are located directly below Turkey and thus lead to this country’s massive history of avalanches, floods, landslides, droughts and earthquakes (Orhon, 1991). A 7.2 Mw earthquake had once
Words: 4867 - Pages: 20
resilient education facilities. At a time when the frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events is rising, a growing number of the world’s school-going children are increasingly exposed to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, cyclones, landslides and other natural hazards. For example: • The Sichuan earthquake (2008) killed more than 7,000 children in their schools and an estimated 7,000 classrooms were destroyed. • The cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh (2007) destroyed 496 school buildings and damaged
Words: 307 - Pages: 2
