At 2:46 p.m. one of the deadliest earthquakes shook Japan on March 11th 2011. A 500 kilometre-long fault zone was ruptured off the northeast coast of Japan. The epicentre was situated 130 kilometres east from the big city‚ Sendai. The focus occurred at a relatively shallow depth (about 30 km) underneath the Pacific Ocean. The earthquake had the largest magnitude of 9.0‚ which Japan had ever recorded and can only be explained by plate tectonics. As seen in figure 3‚ the earthquake occurred
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the University of South Carolina at Columbia‚ he moved to Parsons School of Design in New York to study and start his career at the age of twenty-four. Later‚ Johns served two years in the army during the Korean War‚ stationing in South Carolina and Sendai‚ Japan‚ then returned to New York in 1953 (Klacsmann‚ 2009; Rosenthal‚ 2004). Johns attended innumerable art exhibitions in New York and became friends with the artist Robert Rauschenberg‚ the composer John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham
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How do the leaders of the Japan businesses and who you have met engage innovative business models in a stagnant economic environment? What might you learn from this? GRA and Strawberry Farming in Yamamoto-cho With the vision of “10‚000 people‚ 100 companies‚ in 10 years”‚ Hiroki Iwasa established General Reconstruction Association (GRA) to revive the town of Yamamoto-cho. Yamamoto-cho‚ a small town lying on the coast of East Japan‚ is one of the areas heavily affected by the aging population. Before
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The United States is the worlds largest producer of nuclear power‚ accounting for more than 30 percent of the worldwide nuclear generation of electricity. Nuclear power is also among the verge of the most expensive‚ construction on a new power plant in Georgia skyrocketed past the projected expenses by $737 million to nearly $7 billion. In 2012 the approval of the new power plants in Georgia and South Carolina were among the first approved in over 30 years. While these approvals were a major setback
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PressReleasePing Parts of Asia on Verge of Dire Post-floods Consequences?Hard-hit Areas to Face Mounting Pandemic Outbreak Tolls?1st Asian Post-DESPO?s P.I. Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi Torrential flood-tides leave over 12‚85000 Asian children prone to life-long disabilities?Already at high vulnerability‚ over 250‚000 Rohingya children most endangered?Scarce upsurge of deadly Leptospirosis at post-disastrous situations scenes?Specter zones crossing normal parameters of vector-borne diseases?High-risk
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ROLES OF TRANPORTATION Introduction: The role of transportation is very precise or important in the development of the nation; highly industrializes or primitive. Enhanced mobility has many positive effects on economic development and social welfare‚ including more efficient movement of goods and improved access to jobs‚ health services‚ and education. The cities in developing countries having transitional economies inexorably differ from those in developed countries in economic‚ political and
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1. Write a story ending with: They looked at each other and smiled meaningfully. He was running down the corridor and his only concern was getting there. He could not control his bladder any longer and deep in his heart‚ he was cursing softly. The toilet timetable was a pain and he told himself that he would fight to voice his frustration. Nobody could blame him if he were to leave a trail of urine before he could get there in time. The smell of ammonia was getting closer and it was such a relief
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Research Paper How society would react to modern earthquake‚ if they only believed in myths Earthquakes have been a mystery to humans for thousands of years. They have been speculated and written about. But what if we as twenty first century humans did not understand how earthquakes worked? How would we respond to an earthquake if we only believed that earthquakes were created by angry gods or mischievous animals? In ancient time catfish‚ snakes‚ elephants‚ and turtles were
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International Journal of Engineering‚ Science and Technology Vol. 3‚ No. 3‚ 2011‚ pp. 160-166 MultiCraft INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING‚ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY www.ijest-ng.com © 2011 MultiCraft Limited. All rights reserved A prepaid meter using mobile communication Amit Jain1*‚ Mohnish Bagree2 1* Power Systems Research Center‚ International Institute of Information Technology‚ Hyderabad‚ INDIA 2 School of Electrical Engineering‚ Vellore Institute of Technology‚ Vellore
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technologies and how they affect society and individuals are a big theme present in many science fictions. Burning Chrome‚ for example‚ has many technological elements that we discussed in class‚ such as the Vasopressin‚ Automatic Jack’s robotic arm‚ Sendai eyes and more. It is very similar to the world that Philip Dick presents in ‘the Electric Ant’‚ where flying cars called squibs are ubiquitous and computers have now surpassed the human intellect and ability. 3. Characters: Garson Poole is the
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