Earthquake in Japan The name of the article I choose is Quake Moved Japan Coast 8 fee, Shifted Earth’s axis by Kevin Voigt, CNN, March 11th, 2011. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-12/world/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth_1_tsunami-usgs-geophysicist-quake?_s=PM:WORLD This article talks about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan last Friday March 11th, 2011. The quake started a massive tsunami that also hit the country of Japan and sent 50 other territories into alert for the massive waves
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is evidence that fracking can cause earthquakes in the surrounding area since fracking involves drilling, and pumping hazardous fluids deep into the ground. This is shown in the Fracking Fuels Energy Debate article, when it states, “When the fluids flow into cracks within the rock, they can create a bit of wiggle room that frees one rock slab enough to let it slide past its neighbor. That ground motion is an earthquake”(Gies 40). This shows, how the earthquakes are created by the fracking process
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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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defined as a 'situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, property or the environment'. The overall impact of earthquakes as a natural hazard varies greatly from one place and time of day or year to another. As do the types of hazards, which are classed as either primary or secondary hazards. Primary hazards are created by the direct seismic shaking of an earthquake; this could include liquefaction, slope slipping and tsunamis. These primary hazards can in turn trigger secondary hazards
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Extracting natural gas from the ground is not something new and has been done for hundreds of years. A relative new way to extract it has been controversial since its introduction in the late 1990’s. This method is called hydraulic fracturing, or better known as fracking. This form of drilling technique has made it possible to retrieve natural gas and oil reserves that had before been considered difficult to retrieve. This development has led the energy industry in the United States to raise dramatically
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Earthquake in Japan The name of the article I choose is Quake Moved Japan Coast 8 fee, Shifted Earth’s axis by Kevin Voigt, CNN, March 11th, 2011. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-12/world/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth_1_tsunami-usgs-geophysicist-quake?_s=PM:WORLD This article talks about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan last Friday March 11th, 2011. The quake started a massive tsunami that also hit the country of Japan and sent 50 other territories into alert for the massive waves
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Kerr Honors Chemistry 2 January 2016 Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown On Friday, March 11th, 2011, an earthquake occurred about 130 km offshore the city of Sendai. From how severe it was, the earthquake was named the Great East Japan Earthquake. It was devastating, having a magnitude of 9.0, and it was also a very rare “double quake”, making the duration last a destructive three minutes. The earthquake was so severe that the whole country of Japan actually moved a few meters east, and sadly killed over
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way to reduce the impact of an earthquake’ to what extent do you agree with this view? (40 marks) An earthquake is a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. Impacts of an earthquake can include short-term impacts such as fatalities, or long-term impacts such as income lost through lack of tourism. Technology can be used to predict the likelihood of an earthquake occurring in a particular area
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to present the preliminary, unpublished findings in Salt Lake City Thursday, April 18 during the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting. There is no magnitude scale for the microseisms generated by Sandy, but Koper says they range from roughly 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
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