examples, suggest why the impacts of tectonic hazards vary from place to place Tectonic hazards are natural events occurring due to movements or deformations of the earth’s crust with the potential to cause damage to lives and properties. E.g. earthquake and volcanic activities. The impact caused by tectonic hazards on lives and properties are mainly determined by physical factors, vulnerability factors and affected region’s capacity to cope. These factors are parts of the risk equation, which is
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Earthquake The strongest earthquake in 25 years in Northern California's Bay Area struck early Sunday, injuring dozens of people, damaging historic buildings in downtown Napa and turning fireplaces into rubble. The 6.0-magnitude quake struck just six miles southwest of Napa, California's famed wine country. Nearly 160 were treated for minor injuries at the emergency room at Queen of the Valley Hospital, though hospital CEO Walt Mickens could not confirm that all of those patients were injured
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statement: The extent to which earthquakes present a hazard depends on where they are experienced. (40 marks) A Hazard is best defined as a situation that’s ‘a potential source of harm or adverse health effect on a person or persons’. An earthquake is a tectonic event which can be a huge hazard to people- particularly effecting areas of the earth around convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries: in both MEDC’s and LEDC’s with equally force. Hazards earthquakes cause can be divided into
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Sichuan Earthquake 2008 Before: 12 May 2008 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck 90km north west of Chengdu, south eastern China: · Sichuan was a predominately rural area but there was a death toll of 70,000 by June 2008 · The earthquake was one of the deadliest and the area was not prepared for the event on the size of the magnitude despite the area has had a long history of tectonic activity · There were between 64 and 104 major aftershocks, ranging in magnitude from 4.0 to 6.1
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Earthquakes If one could have stood out in space for a fantastically long time and looked back at the Earth, one would have seen the continents themselves in motion, drifting apart on their crustal plates, held afloat by the fire beneath. That is a poetically turned phrase from Lewis Thomas, which beautifully sums up the mechanics behind plate tectonics, and ultimately behind earthquakes. The following is a brief sketch on earthquakes, their cause and effect, how they are measured, and an area where
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look at how it most directly affects Americans. January 17, 1994, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 hits Los Angeles, California causing $20 billion dollars of damage. 57 lives lost, 8,700 injured. August 29, 2005, a category 3 storm with highest sustained winds of 175mph makes landfall on southeast Louisiana causing $81.2 billion of damage. 1,836 lives lost. January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hits
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to occur to least likely respectively include, earthquakes, submarine landslides, submarine volcanic eruptions, and large meteorites crashing in the ocean (Magnus). In order to better comprehend the causes that make a tsunami, it is important to have a better knowledge about earthquakes. Earthquakes are formed alongside certain faults, which are fractures in the Earth’s crust. As these fractured plates collide with each other, they cause an earthquake. In some cases, the energy along these faults
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one plate gets caught on the rough edge of another. Pressure builds and the plates can break, which causes an Earthquake to begin.Earthquakes happen in Japan. 3) Scientist measure Earthquakes by using a magnitude scale. A magnitude scale measures the amount of energy that comes from an earthquake. Earthquakes with a low magnitude release little energy and do little damage. Earthquakes can’t be predicted to any degree, it’s been tested several times, and it just never worked. 5) A volcano is
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resulting tectonic hazards and any landforms that are produced. Remember that different plate boundaries vary considerably - some produce very violent earthquakes and explosive volcanic activity whereas others produce gentle eruptions and earthquakes. I would also note down some named examples of each type of boundary and perhaps case studies of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that were caused by a specific boundary. For question 2, it seems to me that they might be looking for some human factors
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Real Time Earthquakes Luis Perez Kaplan University July 31, 2012 The patterns that I observed I’ve noticed that the majority of earthquakes occur along the shorelines of California all the way to the coast of Washington. There are some small amounts of seismic activity in the central part of the United States and also on the eastern shore of the United States. Most of their earthquakes range up 6 to 8 on the scale. These earthquakes occur along the Pacific coast and continue southward along
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