Northridge Locksmith Slammed the door of your car and realized you have left the keys inside? Your house was barged in? Misplaced the keys to your safe in the office? Return home from a holiday and find your locks been tampered with? So many times we faced these situations‚ right? But with Northridge Locksmith in town you won’t have to worry anymore. We would be minutes away from you each time you have to deal with such emergency situations. It is quite common for us to err. We are but humans
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Impact of Kashmir earthquake of 2005 and its effect on the Pakistani Economy Abstract This paper will detail the events of the Kashmir earthquake of 2005 in Pakistan and examine its deleterious social and economic effects on the population in this region. Through the use of a variety of primary and secondary sources‚ this paper will seek to identify the causes of the damage and the reasons for which its primary and secondary effects were so harmful. It will analyze the earthquake and its repercussions
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Imagine that you are the Chief Executive of Hong Kong‚ what will you plan to do in order to reduce the health impact of earthquake? Among all natural disasters‚ earthquake has perhaps caused the highest death toll and financial loss. Being unpredictable and undetectable‚ alleviation as well as evacuation have become even more difficult. The Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1995 caused a property loss of over US$60 billion and a lost of more than US$100 billion in capital (Sawada‚ 2008‚ p.463)‚ whereas
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about the 1994 Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17‚ 1994. The earthquake was centered in Reseda‚ a neighborhood in the north-central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles‚ California. “It was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that lasted 10 – 20 seconds. In addition‚ two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred‚ the first about one minute after the initial event and the second approximately 11 hours later‚ the strongest of several thousand aftershocks in all.” (USGS‚ 2012) Earthquakes are usually caused
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Tsunamis A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water‚ such as an ocean‚ is rapidly displaced on a massive scale. Earthquakes‚ mass movements above or below water‚ volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions‚ landslides‚ large meteorite impacts and testing with nuclear weapons at sea all have the potential to generate a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastating. The term tsunami comes from the Japanese words(津波、つなみ) meaning harbor ("tsu"‚
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followed me. It followed me down the stairs and underneath the dining room table where my family joined me. Little did I realize that before the morning sun rose again‚ I would see everything differently. My world changed. The 6.7 earthquake which crippled the Northridge area on January 17‚ 1994 rattled and ripped apart the fibers of security in our neighborhood. Our home was ruined; smashed glass‚ crumbled walls‚ and the lack of electricity‚ gas‚ and water made it uninhabitable. Without basic utilities
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also focuses on how best to restore‚ redevelop and revitalize the health‚ social‚ economic‚ natural and environmental fabric of the community and build a more resilient Nation”( National Disaster Recovery Framework‚ 2015). After a disaster like an earthquake a wide variety of work commences to make sure that the affected communities health‚ social‚ economic‚ natural
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Release How can the families of Los Angeles be prepared for an earthquake? This is a very important question that haunts us every day‚ because we don’t always know when they are coming and how bad they will be. I am Donte Lindsey and I am the director of Earth Preparedness of Los Angeles. With any type of danger the first thing you need to be prepared with is knowledge. Today we will discuss the hazards that are associated with earthquakes here in the city of Los Angeles‚ the causes and the plate tectonics
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include Santa Monica fault‚ the San Fernando fault‚ and Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Even though these faults are not as well-known as the San Andreas Fault‚ where it margins are between the Pacific and North American plates that cross Southern California. Los Angeles is sitting near at least 60 known faults. The earth still moves frequently in these smaller less known areas. One example of this is the earthquake that was focused in the Northridge area happened in January 1994. It only lasted 30 seconds
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In 2010‚ a huge earthquake hit Haiti and almost flattened the tiny country. A year later‚ in 2011‚ an equally huge if not bigger earthquake hit Japan. Many people were affected in Japan but now the country is running smoothly again while Haiti’s poverty rates are still as a high as 80%. Why did these earthquakes have such different effects on these countries? The most significant reason these earthquakes had such different effects is the simple matter that Japan is just much more prepared than
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