Imagine you’re one of the people that decide to ignore the officials warnings of an eruption on Mount St. Helens. It’s May 18‚ 1980‚ 8:32 a.m. and you hear a rumble and feel the earth move. Behind you‚ you hear a thunderous noise. When you turn around‚ you see a humongous landslide headed your way. Mount St. Helens in Washington State has erupted‚ immediately a cloud of gas‚ rock‚ and hot ash shot up in the air and race down the mountainside at an unimaginable speed. The eruption created a mass of
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passing and just know that their love will not be torn. After these first two stanzas‚ the poem begins to have more metaphors. “Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears‚” (Line 9). This line is comparing an earthquake to his love‚ who has been harmed by his death. People fear earthquakes and are harmed by them just as the woman is harmed by her loss of her husband. The tone of this part of the poem is obviously death and it creates a fearful mood for the reader. The poem continues on to say fear
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discusses how distressing it is to be Haitian. In nearly the past twenty two years‚ Haiti has suffered from multiple natural catastrophes. Haiti struggles with hurricanes‚ tropical storms‚ political instability‚ and most recently‚ a consequential earthquake. In his article‚ Pitts discusses how humans are able to return to stability after these occurrences‚ which is not the case for Haiti. Leonard Pitts recognizes that it always seems to be “Haiti’s turn.” The main predicament Pitts recognizes is that
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more than 800 miles from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California‚ passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San Francisco. Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path‚ including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906‚ a less serious event there in 1989‚ and a strong and destructive quake centered in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge in 1994 that occurred along
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Back to life after the great East Japan earthquake Residents of a city devastated by the 2011 tsunami pick up the pieces‚ showing just how crucial jobs are in times of disaster-recovery. Feature | 01 April 2013 KAMAISHI CITY‚ Japan (ILO News) – Ms Maekawa‚ who is over 60 years old‚ is busily cooking a dish to serve her customers in a bistro in Kamaishi City‚ a small coastal town in Iwate Prefecture famous for its steel production‚ fishing industry and eco-tourism. When not cooking she comes out
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spreading into water supplies and farmland causing things to get contaminated. Radioactivity is also big because it stays for a long time. Chinas reactors when they got hit but the earthquake spread for miles and miles contaminating everything. Physical environmental hazards are processes that occur naturally like earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ fires‚ floods‚ blizzards‚ landslides‚ hurricanes‚ and droughts. Humans are very easy to get exposed to things that are harmful to us like radiation from sunlight
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flock of birds‚ signaling a site outage. Synonym = Classical Explanation: I chose the word Classical‚ because the original word "iconic" means something that is original or well known of. In this case‚ "classical" fits well. 3. Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010‚ Twitter reaffirmed its role as a powerful tool for the dissemination of information. Synonym = Spread Explanation: I chose the word Spread‚ because the original word means to cover across or let known. In this
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English Project Design a poster on- Save Mother Earth Keep the following points in mind: Include some factual information- not just illustration Should deal with any one aspect of Earth- its depletion and solution Slogan is a must To be done in activity copy Geography Project Select any two Indian species of animals and birds that are endangered and write about the following aspects: 1. Threats faced or the reasons for being in the endangered list. 2. Present habitat and distribution
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Introduction Haiti is one of the world’s poorest nations in the western hemisphere‚ which is still suffering the impact and devastation of the earthquake today. A nation so often on its knees had been knocked to the ground. (Clinton). On January 12‚ 2012 Haiti was struck by an earthquake with 7.0 magnitudes. Many Haitians suffered while others lost their lives. The earthquake shred many homes leaving many people homeless. Many towns got ruined and wrecked‚ even cities got ripped apart and drowned. The churches
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Comformities Discomformities Know what cross-sections‚ geologic maps‚ and block diagrams are. Cross section is a vertical slice in the area. Geologic maps are 2D presentation of a 3D object. Block Diagrams are both of these. Earthquakes Know definitions related to earthquakes: focus‚ epicenter‚ seismic waves‚ etc. Know the three types of waves discussed in lab‚ how they transfer their energy‚ how fast they are‚ what they can travel through‚ etc. Surface Waves: Love Waves- side to side Raleigh
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