Geography Stefen Ewers December 4‚ 2014. QUESTION: “The secondary effects of lithospheric hazards are often more serious than the hazard event itself.” Discuss this statement. [20 marks] The lithosphere is that portion of the outermost part of the earth. It consists of the curst and the upper mantle. A hazard is considered as any threat that has the potential to cause loss of life or injury or damage to property. We can therefore assume that term a lithospheric hazard refers to those that are
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It was a serene Sunday in Banda Aceh‚ Indonesia when a substantial earthquake measuring around 8-9 on the Richter scale devastated the Indian Ocean region. The quake started at approximately 8:25 a.m. and lasted a prolonged seven minutes. The sea level drastically subsided and residents of the Banda Aceh began collecting fish that were exposed on the beach due to the change in sea level. At this time‚ in Banda Aceh‚ it was now 9 a.m.‚ and Banda Aceh was not as peaceful. Overwhelming waves began
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India has a large number of climatic regions‚ tropical climate in the south to temperate and alpine in the north Himalayan regions. The elevated Himalayan regions receive snowfall in the winter months. Himalayas and the Thar Desert substantially influence the Indian climate. The Himalayas block the cold winds from Central Asia. This keeps the Indian subcontinent warmer than places with similar latitudes. Thar Desert attracts the south west monsoons during the June to October post summer months‚
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INTRODUCTION: The Ring of fire (figure 1) is a horse shoe shaped fault line. This fault line is prone to Earth quakes and volcanic eruptions. The ring of fire Is home to 452 volcanoes and 75% of the worlds dormant and active volcanoes live on the Ring. PLATE TECTONICS Plate tectonics is a theory that the earth is split up in to different areas of the world. They glide on the mantle of the earth the plates act like a hard ridged shell (fig 2 plate tectonics) Some of the plate tectonics move very
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government is taking and is planning to take in order to recover from this phenomenon. On March 11‚ 2011‚ Japan was hit by massive 8.9 earthquake at about 05:46:23 UTC. Many cities‚ including the capital Tokyo‚ were devastated by the earthquake. The quake was a result of the pacific plate subducting underneath the Japan plate. It had occurred about eighty miles east of the city of Sendai near the northeast coast of Honshu and about 15.2 miles deep which caused the seafloor to uplift and shift vertically
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suburbs. According to estimates from the USGS‚ approximately 3.5 million people lived in the area that experienced shaking intensity of MM VII to X‚ a range that can cause moderate to very heavy damage even to earthquake-resistant structures. The quake occurred in the vicinity of the northern boundary where the Caribbean tectonic plate shifts eastwards by about 20 millimetres (0.79 in) per year in relation to the North American plate. A
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Ocean in the vicinity of San Francisco. Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path‚ including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906‚ a less serious event there in 1989‚ and a strong and destructive quake centered in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge in 1994 that occurred along one of the San Andreas’s larger secondary faults. The San Andreas Fault is a conservative boundary between two major plates
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utilisation of Water Resources of the Peninsular rivers system for preparation of feasibility reports and thus to give concrete shape to Peninsular Rivers Development Component of National Perspective. In 1990‚ NWDA was also entrusted with the task of Himalayan Rivers Development Component of National Perspectives. Recently‚ the functions of NWDA have been further modified and the work of preparation of detailed Project Reports (DPR) of various link proposals and Pre-feasibility Reports and feasibility
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tourists and other visitors. Nepal is a small but very beautiful country. Tourism can be very important industry for our country. It has the highest mountain‚ Mt.Everest‚ the ever flowing Himalayan rivers‚ glaciers‚ large lakes‚ green valleys‚ and lovely water falls‚ the national parks in the Terai and Himalayan range are all the attractions for tourists. Lumbini‚ the birth place of Gautam Buddha‚ can be next attraction. These all natural resources will be very important for our tourist industry
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crust get pushed over the overlying layers (Alabaster et al. 2011). After the earthquake‚ the shadow depth underneath the ocean triggered a major tsunami hazard that reached height of up to 40.5 meters‚ which later on experienced rapidly after the quake. The degree and extent of damage caused by earthquake and followed by tsunami were gigantic. On 12 September 2012‚ Japanese National Police Agency reported 15‚883 deaths‚ 2681 people missing and 6‚143 injured as well as 129‚225 buildings totally
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