cooking and drinking‚ the average American uses about 100 gallons of water per day (“Water.org”). Additionally‚ they know that their water will always be clean. Now imagine Haiti‚ where the average person lives off of only 4-5 gallons of water per day‚ which may or may not be clean water (“Water.org”). Millions of people in Haiti suffer every day due to a lack of clean‚ usable water. Fortunately‚ to help combat this terrible human rights abuse‚ there’s a non-governmental organization called Water.org
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Loma Prieta Earthquake Story Teller By: Kavita Butani There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes‚ we cannot prevent droughts‚ and we cannot prevent conflict. Earthquakes and the damages they bring have affected the lives of many people around the world forever. As our community grows so does the danger caused by these quakes also increases by mass. Earthquakes can affect our lives in many ways; this type of natural disaster can upset everything from
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Test 3 Study Guide Test 3 will cover chapters 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ and the material presented on Hurricane Katrina and the recent earthquake in Japan. It will have 42 multiple-choice (2 points each) and 4 short answer/diagrams (4 points each). Topics for review * Earthquake terms: * fault: break (fracture) in a rock * rupture: breaking of rock along a fault * hypocenter (focus): rupture point of rock below surface * epicenter: point on earth surface directly above hypocenter
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Earthquake Earthquake is an unexpected and rapid shaking of Earth mainly due to the breakage and shifting of underneath layers. Earthquake strikes all of a sudden at any time of day or night and quite violently. It does not give you any warning. In case of a populated area‚ the earthquake can cause huge loss in the amount of human life and property damage. Affects of earthquake The earthquake can make the buildings and bridges to fall‚ disrupt electricity‚ gas‚ and phone service. It can even further
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Earthquakes Lab Assignment Lab Assignment in “Quiz” format to be completed online Read the Introduction to Earthquake Hazards and Human Risks lab in your lab manual and complete Activity 16.1 and 16.4. After completing this lesson’s laboratory reading assignment‚ answer the following questions that refer to Lab 16: Activities 16.1 and 16.4. The questions have been reformatted to be included as a Quiz in GoVIEW. Make sure you read the discussions in the lab manual related to each one of the questions
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the earthquakes that happened in Mexico. In the total‚ the 7 year old Frida has detected the bodies of 52 people throughout her career 12 whom are still alive. Frida was employed by the Mexican navy in the event for natural disasters. She is still working with 14 other rescue dogs alongside human workers to locate victims of the Mexico city earthquake which has left at least 305 dead. The author’s point is to inform and tell you about the dog who is saving lives during the Mexican earthquake and
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NAMAKKAL 636058. E-Mail: b.dineshcivil@gmail.com Ph. no : 9597138821 1 EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCRURES ABSTRACT “Buildings are the Worst Killers than the Earthquake”. By using appropriate Earthquake resistance design we can ultimately reach our goal. India and other parts of the world are prone to frequent earth quakes. It makes a great attention to the scientist & research scholars. It’s not able to control the earthquake but we can make suitable design. Advance technology is to save the structure
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September 2nd‚ 1886 August 31‚ 1886‚ was one of the worst days in Charleston‚ that day we had a major earthquake of the likes of which I have never felt. The day started off as a nice calm day. My mom and I were reading a book and then all of a sudden I could hear this rumbling sound that seemed to come from inside earth. It started off as a gentle vibration then after a few minutes the noise and the vibrations became more violent. It was as if the earth had a terrible stomach ache. The shake
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present day many people around the world can agree with rudder’s core sentiment‚ ’Haiti‚ I’m sorry’‚ even if they do not support his argument: "Toussaint was a mighty man/And to make matters worse he was black/Black and back in the days when black men knew/Their place was in the back/But this rebel‚ he walked through Napoleon/Who thought it wasn’t very nice/And so today my brothers in Haiti/They still pay the price.” Haiti represents the international opinion of independence‚ sovereignty and freedom
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Time Series Prediction of Earthquake Input by using Soft Computing Hitoshi FURUTA‚ Yasutoshi NOMURA Department of Informatics‚ Kansai University‚ Takatsuki‚ Osaka569-1095‚ Japan nomura@sc.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp Abstract Time series analysis is one of important issues in science‚ engineering‚ and so on. Up to the present statistical methods[1] such as AR model[2] and Kalman filter[3] have been successfully applied‚ however‚ those statistical methods may have problems for solving highly nonlinear
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