The day the earth shook : 5000 people died. Less people died in north ridge. Los angeles: earthquake hits with magnitude 6.7 * 57 people died. Big city earthquake will happen again but will not cause massive loss. City of kobe: 5400 deaths many fires started around the city which burnt the whole city down. Water tanks even became empty and could not take out all the fires. Homes were made out of mud and straw at the bottom and tiled ceilings and roofs which collapsed when the hurricane
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shaped the Earth’s landscape over millions of years. Wegener believed the continents gradually began to drift apart about 300 million years ago. This theory became known as Continental drift. (PBS online 1997) On December 26, 2004 a 9.0 magnitude quake struck under the Indian Ocean near West Coast of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra affecting as many as 150,000 dead or missing people and leaving millions homeless. The vast speeds caused by the violent movement of sections in the Earth’s
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foundation and soil structure may act due to * Earthquake * Bomb blast * Operation of reciprocating and rotary machines and hammers * Construction operation such as pile driving * Quarrying * Fast moving traffic including landing aircraft * Wind * Loading due to wave action of water * Etc * The nature of each of these loads is quite different from the nature of the loads in the other cases. * Earthquakes constitute the single most important source of dynamic
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Not Everything is Within our Control The afternoon knows what the morning never expected. – Swedish (Swedish, "Nature Sayings and Nature Quotes | Wise Old Sayings") It is an irrevocable fact that we are not in control of everything that happens. We would like to believe that we are and we do everything in our power to get as close to full control as possible, but the truth of the matter is that as the starting quote say’s “ The afternoon always knows what the morning never expected”. There
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2824 NON-ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES –AN APPROACH TOWARD EARTHQUAKE RISK PREDUCTION Anand S ARYA1 SUMMARY The paper first discusses some issues in regard to earthquake risk reduction of Non-engineered buildings, such as : Earthquake risk in developing countries and its management, the IDNDR – Yokoyama message emphasising on pre-disaster mitigation and preparedness, earthquake damage reduction initiatives taken such as preparation of building codes and guidelines and
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Earthquake of 1906 Slide one. San Francisco At 5:12 am on April 16,1906 an earthquake shook the coast of Northern California. With a magnitude of 7.8. The quake affected 375,000 square miles. It could be felt all the way to Nevada. One half of this miles were in the Pacific Ocean. The cities of San Jose, Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa were all affected by this earthquake. There was 400 million dollars, 1906 dollars, in damages done to the city. This was the first major disaster in the
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time in a defined area * Catastrophe – massive disaster that requires significant amount of money or time to recover Disaster Trends * Recently, there has been an apparent increase in natural disasters * Eg. Japan tsunami, Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Katrina * The United Nations designated the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Hazards Reduction * [graph] The cost of natural hazards is increasing worldwide, partly b/c world population doubled from 3bill to 6bill
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Carolyn Moran Unit 4 Assignment Big Ideas in Science: Methods to Mutations The patterns of earthquakes that I observed are pretty much starting from the east to west. There are areas in the east and central coast region that are gray or white in color indicating there is really no threat of earthquakes in that region as compared to the west coast region. As you travel west and the closer you get to California is when the colors begin to get darker
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triple disaster occurred on March 11, 2011 in japan. On this date Japan suffered not only an earthquake but a resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster that caused extremely unsafe conditions for Japan’s citizens. On the day of March 11, 2011 an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck Tohoku with great aggression which lead to an enormous Tsunami that devastated large areas of japan. Not only did the earthquake cause massive destruction to the island, it also caused a nuclear disaster that we still don't
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On the day of February 28, 2001 there was a 6.8 earthquake that happened in Washington State. At 10:55am people just went to a table, near a wall, and under a structure to get protection. This earthquake lasted for about 10 seconds, but people felt that it was a very long time. That’s because it was shaking badly with the windows moving, loud noises with cars crashing, lights falling, and etc. Houses were tilting and it felt like you were going to die. There were seven aftershocks in Washington
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