southern part of the east-cost‚ earthquakes riddle the area. Just like how tornados are very common to us. Many parts of this disaster are very common to earthquakes that occur all around the world. There is a fault near the San Francisco area‚ the San Andreas Fault. This fault has been the birth place of many earthquakes striking this area for hundreds of years‚ and was for the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The earthquake’s
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of people affected by natural hazards Physical hazards Human hazards Earthquakes; Not only does the San Andreas Fault‚ marking the conservative margin between the Pacific and North American plates‚ cross Southern California‚ but LA was built across a myriad of transform faults. These include the Santa Monica fault‚ the San Fernando fault‚ and the Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Tsunamis; The 1964 Alaskan earthquake caused considerable damage in several Californian regions. Landslides and Mudflows;
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Today?" National Geographic. National Geographic Society‚ 13 Apr. 2006. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0413_060413_earthquake.html>. Schulz‚ Sandra S.‚ and Robert E. Wallace. "The San Andreas Fault." The San Andreas Fault. USGS‚ 24 June 1997. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/safaultgip.html>.
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Andreas Fault can do to San Francisco. Due to my extensive research‚ I can conclude that; San Francisco is too dangerous for us to move our headquarters to‚ and I can conclude this due to studying the earthquake of 1906. This earthquake as I have been mentioning; happened in 1906‚ but the
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altitude; it will gain snow and build up‚ this well then eventually give way and a devastating avalanche will occur. At the San Andreas Fault‚ there is a high chance of a landslide to occur; the reason being due to it been on a plate boundary‚ mini earthquakes will take place frequently‚ and because it’s low lying‚ it is also endangering the people below surrounding the fault line. As seen on figure 7‚ the Rocky Mountains are high lying‚ therefore prone to snow and glacial ice‚ because of climate change;
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Title- The Fault in our Stars Author- John Green Text Type- Novel I was overwhelmed with the character Gus/Augustus. He was perfect; witty‚ self-assured‚ good looking (from how Hazel describes him) and in love with Hazel Grace. I automatically fell in love with him too; John Green made him a very realistic teenage boy with great desire to win Hazel over. I knew that as soon as I fell in love with him though this novel would break my heart‚ “the marks humans leave are too often scars” The
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The fault in our stars is a book written by john green. The story is about Hazel Grace Lancaster‚ a 16-year-old cancer patient‚ meets and falls in love with Gus Waters also known as Augustus in the book‚ a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Hazel feels that Gus really understands her. They both share the same interests and a love of books‚ especially Grace’s touchstone‚ "An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten. One of the main themes of the book TFIOS is “Fear of Death”.
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caused lots of devastations throughout the whole city. The earthquake happened by a temblor that had a 7.7-7‚ 9 magnitude‚ which had lasted for about a minute and was the result of breaking the northernmost 296 miles of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault. The earthquake was so power-ml that it could be recorded a thousand miles away in Cape Town‚ South Africa. Even though the earthquake was pretty bad itself‚ the fires that happened after the earthquake caused the most damage. The fires had burned
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chastising them. However‚ in post-revolutionary America‚ people are less religion oriented and more concerned about freedom and living a lavish lifestyle. Their belief in free will is much stronger‚ therefore they often explain problems as one’s own fault or others. In Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette or The History of Eliza Wharton that was published in 1797‚ we can see that
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many major active fault zones that are the root causes of earthquakes and other natural diaster. The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault is major geological fault that runs a length of roughly 1000 km in a north-south direction and exhibits current seismicity. It is located in the Chilean Northern Patagonian Andes. It is a dextral intra-arc transform fault. When considered a fault zone‚ the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone (LOFZ) might include other neighboring faults such as Reigolil-Pirihueico Fault. The geology of Chile
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