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    The Jim Corbett National Park is a heaven for the adventure seeker and wildlife adventure lovers. Corbett National Park is India’s first national park which comprises 520.8 km2. area of hills‚ riverine belts‚ marshy depressions‚ grass lands and large lake. The elevation ranges from 1‚300 feet to 4‚000 feet. Winter nights in Corbett national park are cold but the days are bright and sunny. It rains from July to September. Dense moist deciduous forest mainly consists of sal‚ haldu‚ pipal‚ rohini

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    help pay for ground sensors and relays that could provide text and mobile alerts in the event of a quake on the San Andreas Fault‚ according to Caltech scientists in Pasadena and state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Van Nuys). "California is going to have an earthquake early warning system‚" Padilla said at a news conference at Caltech. "The question is whether we have one before or after the next big quake." Japan‚ Taiwan‚ Mexico‚ Turkey‚ Romania‚ Italy and China either have or are working on earthquake

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    Emily Nix Mrs. Wilson ENG0800 14 January 2025 Dystopian Project Part 1: Background- The Shatterquake‚ a lava quake that shattered the Octopian Society in 3450‚ occurred while everyone was swoshing about‚ causing lava to flood the ocean floor. One-fourth of the octopial species reached the Safety Box‚ while the rest were left frozen in the lava. After the quake‚ the Safety Box floated to the Skylands‚ the only safe space. Octopians are half-human‚ half-octopus‚ so they can survive in any environment

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    Recording the Earth’s Seismic Activity In general‚ the map that contained all the earthquake distributions mostly had shallow quakes spread around. Deep quakes on the map were a lot less common. I would estimate that about 85%-90% of the earthquakes were shallow quakes. There were only three earthquakes on the map that had a magnitude of 7.0 or greater. The earthquakes that appeared to have occurred along spreading zones made up about 80% of the earthquakes on the map. Earthquakes that have

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    Bezroukov (1999) I dissect a really bad article in First Monday that billed itself as a "Critique of Pure Raymondism". The Case of the Quake Cheats (1999) After the Quake 1 source was GPLed‚ John Carmack reported that the release had enabled some cheats. Does this mean open source is a security problem? In this essay‚ I discuss the security lessons of Quake. Guest Editorial: World Domination (2001) Because some visions are too audacious not to approached with a sence of humor. Telling Lies:

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    Damage and effects Japan’s National Police Agency said that 45‚700 buildings were destroyed and 144‚300 were damaged by the quake and tsunami. The damaged buildings included 29‚500 structures in Miyagi Prefecture‚ 12‚500 in Iwate Prefecture and 2‚400 in Fukushima Prefecture. Three hundred hospitals with 20 beds or more in Tōhoku were damaged by the disaster‚ with 11 being completely destroyed. The earthquake and tsunami created an estimated 24-25 million tons of rubble and debris in Japan. An

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    Tehri Dam| | Location of Tehri Dam| Country|India| Location|Uttarakhand[->0]| Coordinates|30°22′40″N 78°28′50″ECoordinates[->1]: 30°22′40″N 78°28′50″E| Status|Operational| Construction began|1978| Opening date|2006| Construction cost|US$1 billion| Owner(s)|Tehri Hydro Development Corporation| Dam and spillways| Type of dam[->2]|Embankment[->3]‚ earth and rock-fill| Height|260.5 m (855 ft)| Length|575 m (1‚886 ft)| Crest width|20 m (66 ft)| Base width|1‚128 m (3‚701 ft)| Impounds|Bhagirathi

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    hit by a magnitude 9.0 quake at about 2:50 pm. This would turn out to be the largest earthquake in the past thousands years to ever be recorded. What caused this massive destruction one might ask? This devastating quake was caused because Japan is located between two major tectonic plates. When a large number of plate movements occur‚ the Pacific Plate makes its way below a subduction zone. When plate movements are not gradual and continuous along the subductions zones‚ quakes then now occur. When

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    Japanese Writer Haruki Murakami ___________________________________________ Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹 Murakami Haruki?‚ born January 12‚ 1949) is a Japanese writer and translator.[1] His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards‚ including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. The Guardian praised him as "among the world’s greatest living novelists" for his works and

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    MODULE E – Planetary Engineering: Mesozoic Tectonics Lesson 17 – Plate Tectonics 101  Introduction - Plate Tectonics = “Grand Unifying Theory” explaining relationships between processes within Earth  From Theory of Continental Drift - Alfred Wegener in 1915  The Theory of Plate Tectonics 1) Earth’s surface consists of many lithospheric plates including crust (continental or oceanic) and immediately underlying mantle‚ cold and rigid 2) These plates are presently moving around on Earth’s surface

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