The highest‚ youngest & largest chain of mountains in the world‚ the Himalayan range is one of the most fascinating and spectacular natrual wonders on earth.It is more than that : it is one of the richest store of animal life.For instance‚it is remarkable that almost one third of the world’s mammalian species that may be called true mountain animals are native to these mountains. Jammu and kasmir with its variety of geographical regions‚ climates and vegetation has many
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everything was falling apart... there was no place to hide" A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died. Haiti’s worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday‚ wrecking the presidential palace‚ UN HQ and other buildings. A "large number" of UN personnel were reported missing by the organisation. Many people have spent the night outside
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destinations of choice for these tourists were the Khyber Pass‚ Peshawar‚ Karachi‚ Lahore‚ Swat and Rawalpindi.[3] The country’s attraction range from the ruin of the Indus Valley Civilization such as Mohenjo-daro‚ Harappa and Taxila‚ to the Himalayan hill stations‚ which attract those interested in winter sports. Pakistan is home to several mountain peaks over 7000 m‚ which attracts adventurers and mountaineers from around the world‚ especially K2.[4] The north part of Pakistan has many old fortresses
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arrive to the surface using up its energy. Too bad this was not the case with this quake that took only four minutes long for the quake to ripe open the Indian Ocean floor‚ tech-tonic plates on the move when they collide‚ stress on contact slips and tears the crust. Most of the energy went horizontally some went up of a whopping magnitude of nine on the Richter scale. The most powerful natural hazard in all the world’s quakes put together in the last five years. This huge catastrophe took two hundred and
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SUBTOPIC 3 : Underwater earthquake causing Tsunami. * The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53UTC on Sunday‚ 26 December 2004‚ with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra‚ Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake. The resulting tsunami was given various names‚ including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami‚ South Asian tsunami‚ Indonesian tsunami‚ and the Boxing Day tsunami. * The earthquake
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EOSC 114 – Final Review Notes Get A’s or die trying. Jason Kim Unit 1: A Fragile System At least 3 earthquake recording stations are required to find the location of the earthquake epicenter. A single recording station can only calculate distance‚ but not direction; to cover all possibilities‚ a complete circle is drawn around that station. If only two earthquake recording stations are used‚ the circles will overlap at two points. Data from a third recording station will eliminate one of
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redirects here. For other uses‚ see Christchurch earthquake (disambiguation). For the 13 June 2011 aftershock‚ see June 2011 Christchurch earthquake. February 2011 Christchurch earthquake | ChristChurch Cathedral and the Cathedral Square | Quake epicentre | Date | 22 February 2011 (2011-02-22)‚ 12:51 pm NZDT | Magnitude | 6.3 ML[1] | Depth | 5 km (3.1 mi) | Epicenter | 43°35′00″S 172°42′04″E / 43.5834°S 172.7012°E / -43.5834; 172.7012Coordinates: 43°35′00″S 172°42′04″E / 43.5834°S
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CEDRIC © Ubisoft – POD - 1997 50 50 years of evolution ... 1961 Spacewar! Steve Russel (MIT) 1972 PONG Nolan Bushnell (Atari) 1989 Prince of Persia Jordan Mechner (Brøderbund) 1993 Doom John Carmack (Id Software) ... ... of games ... 1997 Quake 2 Id Software (Activision) 2004 Far Cry Crytec (UbiSoft) 2008 Assasin’s Creed (UbiSoft) ... ... and programming ... 1960 BASIC 1972 C 1983 C++ ... ... methods 1993 Mods 1995 3dfx ASM 1995 DirectX 1.0 2002 Renderware 50 50 years of evolution
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others‚ like Rousseau‚ to become more optimistic. Even further it pushed some‚ like Kant‚ to use reason and science to explain it‚ while others‚ like Wesley‚ looked to the church and religion. Voltaire and Rousseau are polarized on their views of the quake. Voltaire couldn’t see any
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means of plates shifting but from the process of fluid extraction (Fehling 19). Seattle on the other hand has a very high probability of an earthquake occurring. There are three different types of quakes that the city experiences crustal quakes‚ they are the most common on the fault of Seattle. Intraplate quakes which go farther into the continental crust. Finally there are earthquakes that occur at the subduction zone of the converging North American and San Juan de
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