Earthquakes Enquiry The aim of the enquiry is to find out what the factors were‚ which led to more people dying in the Gujarat earthquake in 2001‚ then the San Francisco earthquake in 1989. The Gujarat earthquake started at 8:46 am on Friday 26th January 2001. The earthquake struck the heavily populated (LEDC) state of Gujarat in western India. The earthquake measured 7.9 on the Richter scale and sent tremors thousands of kilometres across the continent. It was so large that it was felt as far
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Christchurch Earthquake 2011 Case Study (New Zealand) On Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. Christchurch struck by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake‚ which killed 185 people and injured several thousand. The quake was centred 10km south-east of the city at a depth of 5km. In the ten minutes after it hit‚ there were 10 aftershocks of magnitude 4 or more. Also there was just a recent earthquake‚ which took place in September 2010. It was just as strong as the Haiti earthquake‚ at 7
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Drill Team Captain Becoming Drill Team Captain was such a great experience. I feel as if becoming captain helped me with my leadership skills. Whenever my coach isn’t at school‚ or she’s busy‚ I have to be the one to make sure my team is on task with whatever we are doing. I lead warm ups‚ go over routines‚ etc. What made being captain so special to me was that I was able to help out my teammates. I helped them not only physically ‚ as in perfecting the routines‚ but I also helped them
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it short and did not explained in detail. I could mention more details about the situation where I could reveal the details of the concerning authorities‚ i.e.‚ if there is any issue that would be related with the child abuse and self-harm‚ I would report that to the concerning authority. I could do better in the future session on confidentiality as I will learn and practice the confidentiality part before I come to the counseling session and mention it slowly and confidentially. One of the important
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Gujarat earthquake The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26‚ 2001‚ at 03:17 UTC‚ and coincided with the 51st celebration of India’s Republic Day. The location of the epicentre was Bhuj (23.6° N 69.8° E) Gujarat‚ India. With a moment magnitude (Mw) of between 7.6 and 8.1‚ the quake killed more than 20‚000 people and injured another 167‚000 and destroyed near a million homes throughout Gujarat and parts of eastern Pakistan.[3] The earthquake is considered an intraplate earthquake because
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measure of the magnitude of seismic waves from an earthquake. Devised in 1935 by the American seismologist Charles F. Richter (1900–1985) and technically known as the local magnitude scale‚ it has been superseded by the moment magnitude scale‚ which was developed in the 1970s. The Richter scale is logarithmic; that is‚ the amplitude of the waves increases by powers of 10 in relation to the Richter magnitude numbers. The energy released in an earthquake can easily be approximated by an equation that
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The Wall Street Journal opens by defining the Haiti Earthquake as the strongest to hit the Caribbean in more than two centuries. Various witness reports were included‚ one of which from the Administer of Mercy and Sharing in Haiti: a charity that houses 109 orphans‚ notes the various dead bodies lying on the street‚ the numerous injured citizens‚ and the ringing cries of help in an area just 10 miles outside of the earthquakes epicenter. The report specifically describes the devastated infrastructure
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strike-slip earthquake occurred on 12th January 2010‚ 25km to the WSW of the capital Port Au Prince at a depth of 13km and had a magnitude of 7.0 Mw (“Magnitude
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March 27‚ 1964 a magnitude 9.2 earthquake hit Alaska its epicenter located in Prince William Sound‚ 75 miles east of Anchorage. This earthquake was and still is the second larges earthquake ever recorded (Christensen). The plates involved In this major earthquake were the Pacific plate and North American plate. This subduction zone is know as Aleutian-Alaska megathrust zone (Sokolowski). This region was known for its active plate tectonics‚ but this earthquake did come as a surprise to the public
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My experience in shipboard is very memorable for me‚ every day your going to treasure it. My experience goes this way‚ trip to Manila. I’m very excited and when at the port i’m very disappointed because our CoOJT’s from LPU Laguna is some kind of “maarte” and we met our STO Sir Joepet a very kind STO and I really like him. When we embark at the ship I feel a little bit nervous but not because of I’m of I’m afraid that the ship is going to sink while underway I’m afraid of what if I can’t do all
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