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    Christchurch Earthquake

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    On February 22nd 2011‚12.51pm Christchurch experienced another earthquake with the magnitude of 6.3 at a depth of 5 km below ground level. This devastating event took the lives of many people with a death toll of 166 as at Sunday 6th March 2011. (CULTURAL) The earthquake caused many implications on Christchurch infrastructure in the CBD area. Many people were trapped in the CTV building‚ under collapsed furniture and damaged infrastructure . There was large amounts of damage to the roads such

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    921 Earthquake

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    CNN: A special news report-This morning‚ there was an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale shaked Taiwan at 1:45am on September 21‚1999. The epicenter is a mile under the ground in Nantou near Puli. There are many buildings crushed‚ and even a twelve floor-high rise building suddenly became a two floor- high rise building (the first to the sixth floors dipped into the underground‚ and the seventh to the twelfth floors went diagonally down and damaged the road.) As of press time the Disaster

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    examples of earthquakes‚ assess the extent to which attempts at prediction and mitigation may have influenced the impact of the hazard. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquake is a major threat to the human and natural environments‚ in which people died‚ buildings collapsed and cities destroyed. Prediction and mitigation are usually conducted in order to reduce the impact of an earthquake on environment. Earthquake prediction

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    Haiti Earthquake

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    disaster is the occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of society or community. In January 2010 earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti caused>200‚000 deaths thousands of injuries requiring immediate surgical interventions‚ and 1.5 million internally displaced survivors. The earthquake destroyed most medical facilities in the city seriously preventing the ability to deliver immediate help. Community nurse can help assist with all types

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    Essay On Haiti Earthquake

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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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    Earthquake

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    2013 Lushan earthquake | | Date | April 20‚ 2013 | Magnitude | Mw 7.0 (GA)[1] Ms 7.0 (CENC)[2] Mw 6.6 (USGS)[3] Mw 6.6 (EMSC)[4] Mj 6.9 (JMA)[5] | Depth | < 13 km (8.1 mi)[6] | Epicenter | 30°17′02″N 102°57′22″ECoordinates: 30°17′02″N 102°57′22″E[3] Lushan County‚ Sichuan | Countries |   China | Aftershocks | 1‚815[7] | Casualties | 193 dead 24 missing 11‚826 injured 968 injured seriously | The Lushan earthquake or Ya’an earthquake occurred in China on 20th April‚ 2013

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    Physics Essay: Earthquakes

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    the natural disaster called earthquakes. There has been developed a new technique to prepare the human race for earthquakes. In this essay‚ the possibility of getting to know when an earthquake is going to happen is going to be discussed. How is science going to be able to create a better world‚ if there’s a natural phenomenon that can’t be changed? Plate tectonics-Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg Earthquakes are produced by the sudden

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    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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    Associate Level Material Earthquake Technology Worksheet Answer the lab questions for this week and summarize the lab experience using this form. Carefully read Ch. 9 of Geoscience Laboratory. Complete this week’s lab by filling in your responses to the questions from Geoscience Laboratory. Although you are only required to respond to the questions in this worksheet‚ you are encouraged to answer others from the text on your own. Questions and charts are from Geoscience Laboratory‚ 5th ed. (p

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