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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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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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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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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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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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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Whitney Gregory Dr. Alexander Third Year Writing 7 May 2010 Natural Disasters: Why Haven’t We Learned From Them Yet? George Santayan‚ a famous Spanish-American philosopher‚ once said‚ “Everything is life is lyrical in its ideal essence‚ tragic in its fate and comic in its existence‚” (“Quotable Quote” 1). This too can be said about natural disasters in today’s time. A natural disaster is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as‚ “any form of nature that has catastrophic consequence‚ such as an avalanche
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It involves clearing a patch of forest land‚ but retaining useful trees and plant varieties‚ cultivating it for two to three years and then abandoning it for 10-20 years to allow the natural forest to grow back and the soil to regain its fertility. The cycle of cultivation‚ leaving it fallow and coming back to it for cultivation‚ is called the Jhum cycle. Traditionally‚ a village community owns/controls the forest land and decides on such rotational cultivation pattern. Thus the community cultivates
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people already struggling to get by with everyday life. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world. The January 12 quake demolished almost every major building in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital. About 5‚000 schools in the city were destroyed or damaged. Throughout Haiti‚ more than 220‚000 people were killed‚ and more than 1 million were left homeless. A few days after the quake‚ the number of survivors stood at 121 as hopes of finding more became unrealistic.The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic
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