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    1964 Alaska earthquake

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    Alaska earthquake http://www.iris.edu/hq/files/programs/education_and_outreach/aotm/31/Alaska1964EarthquakeCauses.mp4 A lot of excellent information is packed into this short video. 1. How many minutes did the shaking last? The shaking lasted 4.5 minutes. 2. What was the magnitude of the earthquake? The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2. 3. This earthquake occurred just as geologists were figuring out plate tectonics. What principle of plate tectonics did the earthquake confirm

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    Tsunami and Earthquake Sion Hau 7D 31/07/11 An earthquake occurred in Sendai‚ Japan on the 11th of March in 2011; this earthquake also resulted in a tsunami. The earthquake measured at magnitude 8.9-9.0 on the Richter scale‚ the scale is measured in powers of ten (e.g. magnitude 2.0 is ten times more than magnitude 1.0). Japan sits on the Ring of Fire (an area encircling Pacific Ocean that has high volcanic and earthquake activity)

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    This article that I have chosen is a earthquake that happened in China. It was said that this earthquake had the largest measuring magnitude of 5.7. After the earthquake‚ at least 80 were killed and 700 were injured. This earthquake was the heaviest in the rural area in Yiliang country. One of the elementary school collapsed in the earthquake. Authorities are not sure if the children are killed. In 2008‚ there was an earthquake in Yunnan’s neighbouring Sichuan province‚ which killed 80

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    Earthquake Resistant Bridges Jacqueline Stoy 4/24/2013 Geography of Cultural Diversity 3350:275 Tuesday/Thursday 12:05-12:55 Throughout history‚ bridges have been a primary means of transportation. Unfortunately‚ natural disasters have come to destroy such bridges on many occasions. One of the most deadly natural disasters to face the bridges is earthquakes. The movement of the ground causes the supporting beams and columns to twist and collapse‚ often resulting in injury or death for

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    Women Persona in Meatless Days Meatless Days presents the picture of third world women‚ as a silenced community‚ a community that is so marginalized that its existence has become almost meaningless ; ‘There are no women in Pakistan.’ In this autobiographical sort of writing Sara introduces some female characters‚ whom she knew so well both internally and externally. She shows us not only their social side but also the working of their mind and the unsaid pangs of their

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    Richard the Third

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    reasons as to why he wanted to create Looking For Richard‚ these reasons include wanting to revive Shakespeare and also to bring Shakespeare and Richard the Third to a Modern audience‚ as Pacino states‚ ‘It has always been a dream of mine to communicate how I feel about Shakespeare to other people… and taking this one play Richard the third analysing it approaching it from different angles‚… we could communicate both our passion for it our understanding that we’ve come to and in doing that communicate

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    1.Earthquakes 1. According to dictionary.reference.com an earthquake is a: Series of vibrations induced in the earth’s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. The earth is made up of tectonic plates these are massive slabs of rock floating on magma ‚as the plates move about‚ they spread apart‚ collide‚ or slide past each other‚ This is the main cause of volcanoes and earthquakes Earthquakes occur in many regions all over the world

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    “Japan earthquake: Tsunami hits north-east” Source: BBC 2‚ Horizon Special Professor Ian Stewart‚ Geologist Broadcast on 27th March 2011 In this programme‚ Ian Stewart examines the powerful geological forces that caused the devastating Japanese earthquake. 30% of all earthquakes across the world happen in Japan. Earthquakes are caused when the tectonic plates (giant slabs of rock) grind together causing the build up of huge forces. When the pressure gets too much‚ the edges of the plate suddenly

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    To what extend did the European leaders recapture the holy land from Saladin in the third crusade? Forty years after the failure of the Second Crusade‚ Richard I of England‚ Philip II of France and Barbarossa leader of Germany all ended their conflicts to assist the Third Crusade (1189-1192). Saladin‚ who captured Jerusalem in 1187‚ had unified Syria and Egypt in the past‚ making him a very powerful adversary and an excellent military leader. Losing the Holy Land was too shameful for Christendom

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    Earthquake Resistant Buildings A Research Paper in Writing in the Discipline Emilio Aguinaldo College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course in Writing in the Discipline Submitted by: Manicdao‚ Marlone S. Introduction Earthquakes are major geological phenomena. Man has been terrified this phenomena for ages‚ as little has been known about the causes of earthquakes‚ but it leaves behind a trail of destruction. There are hundreds of small earthquakes around the

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