activity causes a secondary disaster which is earthquakes, causes $850,000 worth of damage, mainly agriculture and property, and affecting roughly 2.25 million people. Steep relief and many hills mean landslides and further lahars are sometimes a result from earthquakes. Deforestation and land degradation has led to increased vulnerability for secondary hazards i.e. landslides and also flash flooding during typhoons. Deforestation increases the magnitude of flooding because plants and trees hold the
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Cholera Outbreak in Haiti On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck one of the most underdeveloped countries in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti. By January 24th, 52 aftershock quakes measuring 4.5 in magnitude, or greater, shook the area (Pan American). As the area literally calmed down, the Haitian government had estimated 315,000 people died, 300,000 were injured and 1 million were homeless (Pan American). As this country tries to recover from the devastation, people find
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DETRMINISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL GUJARAT REGION STUDENT GROUP: HARDIK JARIWALA (10BCL001) PARTH LAKHANI (10BCL006) ARJUN SHAH (10BCL012) AMAN DOSHI (10BCL014) DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF TECHNOLGY PANDIT DEENDYAL PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY GANDHINAGAR – 382007, GUJARAT, INDIA MAY 2014 © Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, 2014 DETRMINISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL GUJARAT REGION by STUDENT GROUP: HARDIK JARIWALA (10BCL001) PARTH LAKHANI
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Introduction The following summary report will review the events that took place in a movie called “2012” that was released in the year 2009. The report will provide a review of the plot but it will primarily break it down into the main scientific information the writers choose to include and the validity of their claims. It will also provide the geological landmarks that were used throughout the film. The creators of the film took advantage of some very high-quality special effects to dramatize
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Air and water are the most vital resources on this earth and hydraulic fracturing is threatening the reliability of the world’s resources at a startling rate, effectively destroying water and air supplies with chemical contamination. What happens when water no longer flows from the faucet, shower, or hose? What happens when the air outside is no longer breathable? This is a frightening prospect which has led to one solution, the process of hydraulic fracturing should be banned to avoid many significant
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Abstract Le but de ce travail de recherche est d’analyser et de décrire le tremblement de terre Gujarat de 2001 en Inde et de discuter des conséquences économiques de cette catastrophe. Ce fut l'un des tremblements de terre les plus meurtriers et les plus dévastateurs que l'Inde a connu en plus d’avoir eu un impact économique significatif sur la communauté, les industries et l’environnement de la région. Cette catastrophe naturelle a tué des milliers d’habitants et détruit totalement ou partiellement
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displacement of the sea floor or of the oceanic mass * The displacement of an equivalent volume of water generates the tsunami * A tsunami is harmless until it approaches the coastline * The most prone areas are those associated with earthquakes and volcanoes (mainly subduction zones) * Compared to normal ocean waves which may be about 100m, the wavelengths of large tsunami waves can exceed 200km * Tsunamis travel very quickly relative to normal ocean waves * Particularly
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being criticized by many learned scholars into the 1980’s. I will then explain what the main types of hazards are in tectonics, namely volcanoes (openings in the earth crust from which material from below the earth’s surface can be ejected) and earthquakes (movement in the earth’s crust that causes shaking of the ground above). However, there are many more hazards that can be associated with these two, namely tsunamis and from volcanoes, pyroclastic flows, lahars and volcanic gases. What causes these
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In late March 1980, Mount St. Helens began experiencing minor earthquakes, which persisted for months until on May 18 when the famous stratovolcano finally underwent its first violent eruption in over a century. This catastrophic explosion was preceded by many smaller, warning eruptions, and on March 27, highly pressurized steam created a large crater through the volcano’s ice cap. Throughout the next two months, over 10,000 earthquakes had struck the volcano, and the crater was left with a radius
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Why smarter planet concept is important to society as a whole Smarter Bank The smarter bank concept is important to society as a whole because banks are able to decide if they want to offer someone a mortgage by looking at their profile. For example they would view income statements of the person to see if they would be able to pay the monthly payments and if they don’t meet the standards, the bank wouldn’t give them the mortgage if they wouldn’t be able to pay for it. The bank would also be interested
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