1:51pm an earthquake occurred with its epicenter located in Mineral‚ Virginia. An earthquake’s seismic waves travel between 2-8 kilometers a second. Social media was spreading the news of this earthquake at a rate of 5‚500 posts per second. The rate at which the news was spreading gave thousands of people the advantage of knowing about the earthquake before the seismic waves had reached their area. The first social networking post‚ which reached users 30-40 seconds before the earthquake would reach
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The New Madrid Fault Zone History The largest earthquake sequence the United States has ever experienced happened east of the Rocky Mountains starting out in Northeast Arkansas on December 16‚ 1811. On the Richter scale‚ it was ~7.7 and five hours later AK experienced an aftershock of a magnitude of ~7.0. A little over a month later on January 23‚ 1812 New Madrid‚ MO experienced an earthquake with a magnitude of ~7.5‚ and again on February 7‚ 1812 reaching a magnitude of ~7.7. By March 15
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aren’t ready for them. The school held an earthquake preparedness headed by Mr. Renato U. Solidum Jr.‚ director of PHIVOLCS- an institute of the government assigned to regulate and monitor volcanic activities as well as earthquake predictions‚ effects and sources. The aim of this symposium was to inform the students‚ faculty members‚ administrators and those of general services of the necessary precautions to prevent further damage that may happen during earthquakes. Information‚ preparedness and understanding
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1st - Criteria for Ranking: 306 death (the most deadly earthquake in year 2012) - Date: August 11‚ 2012 - Location: East Azerbaijan Province‚ Iran - Type: Twin earthquakes (Magnitude 6.3 and 6.4) - Description: The earthquake resulted in an estimated 306 deaths‚ over 5000 injured‚ most of houses destroyed. - Sources of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2012#cite_note-98 and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb000bupa.php#details - Rank: 2nd
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EARTHQUAKE A student should teach the illitrate people (villagers) how to be aware from earthquakes i.e the precautions to be taken when an earthquake occurs. He/she should help the sufferers of earthquake that they can ‚ i.e by collecting funds with the help of their friends and giving it to them.they shold give their old clothes ‚books ‚etc for the children who lost their parents in the disaster.they should try to spend some time with them to make them forget their sadness OVERALL DISASTER
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On Friday‚ March 11‚ Japan was rocked by an earthquake. People were displaced‚ a nuclear reactor was in trouble‚ and the world watched as a tsunami flooded Japan‚ threatened the islands of the Pacific‚ and ultimately hit the western coasts of North and South America. Very little of the devastation resulting from this earthquake was from the initial shaking. But mainly because any damage from the seismic waves that was dwarfed by the impact of the 10 metre tsunami that hit the Japanese coast less
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show us was the rainfall simulator which determines the discharge flow of water on the drainage system. The second part of the trip was on PHILVOLCS‚ here they discuss us the recently earthquake that happened on Bohol which is 7.2 magnitude. The presentation they show us tells us how devastating the earthquake was‚ it has destroy a lot of establishments and churches that are centuries old‚ the
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NATURAL DISASTERS Whitewater Rafting Whitewater rafting enthusiasts row or paddle rubber rafts down turbulent‚ fast-running rivers. Rafting trips can be short day trips or longer trips that involve camping alongside the river at night. Encarta Encyclopedia Energy Productions/The Image Bank Amazon River The Amazon River in South America is one of the longest rivers in the world. Only the Nile River in Africa is longer. Encarta Encyclopedia Claudia Parks/The Stock
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volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover.[1] An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population.[2][3][4] In a vulnerable area‚ however‚ such as San Francisco‚ an earthquake can have disastrous consequences
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GAC013 Assessment Event2: Case Study Investigation Compare and Contrast Tsunamis and Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Student’s Name: Sissy Wang Student ID#: SHSA16374 Teacher: Kenny Due Date: 14th December 2011 Word Count: 1‚194 Table of Contents 1. Abstract Page 2 2. Introduction Page 2 3. Methodology Page 4 4. Finding Page 4 5. Discussion Page 6 6. Conclusions and Recommendations Page 6 7. Reference Page 7 Abstract With the development of science
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