On February 22nd 2011,12.51pm Christchurch experienced another earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 at a depth of 5 km below ground level. This devastating event took the lives of many people with a death toll of 166 as at Sunday 6th March 2011. (CULTURAL) The earthquake caused many implications on Christchurch infrastructure in the CBD area. Many people were trapped in the CTV building, under collapsed furniture and damaged infrastructure . There was large amounts of damage to the roads such
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Chart. (4 marks) Question 2 (24 marks total) Open the Excel worksheet nz-earthquakes-sept-2013.xlsx The spreadsheet contains details of all the earthquakes in New Zealand in September 2013. a) Create a Histogram for the Earthquake data. (Hint : A group width of 0.5 would work well) (10 marks) b) What shape is the histogram? (1 mark) c) Calculate the Mean, Range and Mode for the Earthquake data. (3 marks) d) Identify 1 way in which your histogram could be improved
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CASE STUDY SUMMARY Case Study: | Christchurch Earthquake, New Zealand | Year: | 2010 | Event Profile Magnitude | Enormous | Sept 2010- 7.0Feb 2011- 6.6 | Small | Speed of onset | Rapid | | Slow | Duration | Long | Sept 2010- 40 seconds | Short | Areal extent | Widespread | | Limited | Spatial predictability | Random | | Predictable | Frequency | Frequent | 2010 earthquake had frequent aftershocks (over 14,000) | Rare | Facts Country Profile- NEW ZEALAND | LocationThe
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management) Student Name : Cong Danh Bui Student ID :11381581 Lecturer : David Eager Abstract This report will give out a risk management plan for the development and operation of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, based on the AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 standard. The report will begin with the definition of communication and consultation task before coming to the establishing the context, which is to define risks in term of finding the internal and external factors or some risk criteria
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Executive summary Tourism can be the main industry of Sunshine state Queensland. There are many famous tourist destinations in Queensland such as Brisbane and Gold Coast. According to the official statistics, there are 197,000 Chinese visitors travelled in Queensland until March 2011, which increased nearly 29% in the last 12 months period. Moreover, the number of Chinese visitors was a continuing grow trend from 2001 to 2010. It can be said that Chinese visitor has become a needful group for the
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2551 TORSIONAL EFFECTS AND REGULARITY CONDITIONS IN RC BUILDINGS Edoardo COSENZA1, Gaetano MANFREDI2 And Roberto REALFONZO3 SUMMARY Earthquake damages at the perimeter of buildings are often the result of excessive deformations caused by torsion during the earthquake. Large torsional responses can be expected if the buildings have large eccentricity and low torsional stiffness. Modern codes, including Eurocode 8, recognise the importance of the torsional stiffness on the seismic response
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v CIR The deduction of the expense is irrelevant to the resulting net profit. Herald Weekly Times v FCT The cost of the defamation is paid as damage, it is a cost incurred during the operation of business. Deductiable CIR v Mitsubishi Motors NZ Ltd The expense on warranty is deductible, as the cost is incurred at the time of the sale. Case F24: The deduction of the expense of keeping a guard dog is 50%, as it has both business and private use. Case F46: Band musician’s cloth expenditure
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Sudhir K. Jain, R.K. Ingle and Goutam Mondal Beam-column joint is an important part of a reinforced concrete moment resisting frame subjected to earthquake loading. Design and detailing provisions on beam-column joints in IS 13920 : 1993 do not adequately address prevention of anchorage and shear failure in this region during severe earthquake shaking. In view of these limitations, this paper proposes new provisions for inclusion in IS 13920 : 1993. The paper also gives a clause-by-clause commentary
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Faculty of Business & Information Technology Bachelor of Applied Business Studies Graduate Diploma of Applied Business Studies BUS 7333 Strategic Management, Semester 2, 2011 | Assessment Cover Sheet This sheet must be signed by the student and attached to the assessment being submitted. 21101006 | STUDENT ID : TUTOR NAME : Julie McGowan ASSESSMENT : Assignment One – Case Study Analysis Report – Towards 2040: A Smart Green Wellington. DUE DATE : 1pm Monday, August
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ASSESSMENT 1: BUSINESS REPORT Cover page (Design your own cover page for this assignment) Table of Contents (headings and page numbers) 1. Introduction (purpose of the report and an outline of the content of this report) 2. Background: (name of company, size of company, what industry it is in, what it produces, company structure, markets, competitive advantage). Briscoe Group Limited (BG) is one of the greatest retail organizations in New Zealand working its capacity over
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