of damage made. 36‚645 houses destroyed‚ and over 2‚000 aftershocks. This earthquake is a tragedy‚ and the people affected need our help. This earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. If you don’t know anything about earthquakes‚ just know that that is massive! Renato Solidum‚ the director of the Philippine Institute Of Volcanology and Seismology‚ stated that he thought the East Bohol Fault caused the monstrous earthquake. Imagine waking up on October 15th 2013‚ and having your world turned upside
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On August 1 1923 a massive earthquake hit Tokyo‚ Japan. The great Kanto earthquake of 1923 impacted Japan not only in a negative way‚ but also in a positive way. The Kanto earthquake impacted Japan by giving the people of Japan an opportunity to be a hero‚ start over and rebuild bigger and better‚ and help strengthen the bond of the Japanese people. The Kanto earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes that ever happened in Japan. Although Japan is hit by earthquakes all the time this is one of
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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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Haiti is a nation that shares their resource-rich Caribbean island with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic; the Island is also known as Hispaniola. Haitians speak French and Haitian Creole. Since 1804‚ Haiti has faced much controversy over their independence and black-self government. The black-self government refers to the black slaves successfully receiving rights as slaves and individuals‚ which forced independence and freedom for blacks. Haiti achieved independence by a slave uprising;
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January 12th 2010 4:53PM‚ the phone rang….Hispaniola whom which I call Haiti was bawling. Her heart‚ Port-au-prince‚ was completely ruined‚ she bleed and bleed and heard the bones intensively crashing brutally against each other until they converted into ashes. Her green dress metamorphosed into a white costume‚ her veins and arteries were ripped… she had no shelter. Once she realized that her brain was damaged‚ a depression impulsively engulfed her body and left her with nothing more than a reprieving
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Food Scarcity in Haiti Agricultures role in the economy has had a major negative shift since the 1950s. Multiple contributors have been responsible for this significant decline. A few of the major factors that played a role in the decline include the continuing separation of landholdings‚ under developed technology in agriculture‚ migration out of rural regions‚ unstable land ownership‚ little to no capital investment‚ high taxes‚ the low levels of productivity of malnourished animals‚ diseases
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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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Abigael Schneider World History Second Semester Lesson Review: 1. Who led the revolution in Haiti? Conduct research and identify 5 facts about this person. Most historians consider the Haitian Revolution‚ which was led by Toussaint L’Ouverture to be the most successful slave rebellion to have ever occurred. Not only did Toussaint L’Ouverture have motivation to fight for the sake of his home‚ but Toussaint was also a freed slave. As a slave‚ Toussaint was under the control of a kinder slave
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The terrible earthquake happened in the afternoon on May 12‚ 2008 when I was about to library. Suddenly I felt the floor shaking. At the beginning I didn’t think it an earthquake because I had never experience earthquake before. I just thought it must be something wrong with our dormitory. I knew I was wrong when my roommate shout “Earthquake!” Then all of us hid under the desk waiting for the shaking to stop. During that time I was totally blank and murmuring to pray for the stop of the shaking
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The largest earthquake in the world had a magnitude of 9.5 and took place in Chile. The Valdivia Earthquake‚ also know as the Great Chilean Earthquake‚ happened on Sunday‚ May 22‚ 1960. It is the largest earthquake currently on record. It occured in the afternoon and the resulting tsunami affected southern Chile‚ Hawaii‚ Japan‚ the Philippines‚ eastern New Zealand‚ southeast Australia‚ and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The epicenter of the Valdivia earthquake was near Lumaco‚ a coastal city
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