Plate Tectonics Paper Michelle Tillman GLG/220 1/12/15 Jessica Terrien Dunn First and most important hazard is the ground actually shaking. This causes building to be damaged or the ground/foundation to settle different than it was. If the soil is liquefied then the building can actually sink into the ground. This can make the buildings also tip and lean. Los Angeles was built on a myriad of transform faults that include Santa Monica fault‚ the San Fernando fault‚ and Northridge/Santa Barbara fault
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What is EEW? The Earthquake Early warning (EEW) will give advanced warning to those who will experience a tsunami. All earthquakes produce a series of different types of shock waves‚ which travel at different speeds and carry different amounts of energy. The fastest shock waves‚ and the first to arrive‚ are called P waves. These travel about twice as fast as the next fastest shock waves and rarely cause any damage. The next shock waves to arrive are called Shear waves (or S waves)‚ followed by
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8. The waves of the beaches that I observed were all not very big at the time of my observation. The waves were also not going very fast due to the time that I observed at. The weather at the time was cloudy‚ and I did not see many people at the beaches because it is early in the morning. I also noticed that some of the beaches in Hawaii have rocks near them‚ while some are surrounded by different types of sand colors. The colors of the waters at different beaches are also different‚ some are in
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The two chosen natural disasters includes the 2011 Japanese tsunami/earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Disaster 1 – Japanese Tsunami and Earthquake On Friday the 11th of March 2011‚ a magnitude 9.0 Earthquake struck coastal waters‚ along a subduction zone‚ surrounding Japanese islands. At the time of the Earthquake‚ no one expected what was about to occur‚ one of the most devastating tsunamis to have ever hit Japan. Earthquakes are caused by forces deep within the Earth when two blocks of the
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I chose to research earthquakes and the prediction of earthquakes because I was curious as to how they work. In this paper‚ I will discus the history of earthquakes‚ the kinds and locations of earthquakes‚ earthquake effects‚ intensity scales‚ prediction‚ and my own predictions. An earthquake can be defined as vibrations produced in the earth’s crust. Tectonic plates have friction between them which builds up as it tries to push away and suddenly ruptures and then rebounds. The vibrations
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A historical perspective on Disney’s latest film "brother bear" This past weekend I saw the movie Brother Bear‚ it’s a new Disney movie and rated G. I have some trouble with the historical accuracy of the film and will be discussing that at great length. Sure it’s a children’s movie‚ but does that mean it’s ok to disregard historical accuracy? Perhaps the fact that it’s designed for children makes it even more important to keep it historically correct‚ after all children take things very literally
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Continental drift is a theory stating that the Earth’s continents have been joined together and have moved away from each other at different times in the Earth’s history. The theory was first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Whilst his general idea of continental movement eventually became widely accepted‚ his explanation for the mechanism of the movement has been supplanted by the theory of plant tectonics. However there was a problem in accepting this idea originally because Wegener had no convincing
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Essay Question: Describe and explain how rock cycle operates. How do rocks metamorphose at destructive plate boundary? Rock cycle is a cycle that describes how rocks are transformed. Igneous rock can change into sedimentary rock or metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock can change into metamorphic rock or into igneous rock. Metamorphic rock can change into igneous or sedimentary rock. Besides‚ metamorphism at the destructive plate boundaries creates different characteristics of rocks. Operation
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– Stratovolcanoes are tall‚ conical volcanoes that are heavily layered with hardened lava and volcanic ash. This layered structure is built up from the sequential outflow of various eruptive materials. Stratovolcanoes are mostly common amongst subduction zones‚ which is where two tectonic plates meet and by which one plate moves under another and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge. Water is forced into the mantle‚ which forms magma. Less dense magma works its way through to the magma chamber
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Sadia khan Per 4 3/12/12 Volcano internet assignment 1. Three types of volcanoes are the shield volcano‚ Strato Volcano’s and cinder cones .The Shield volcanos are usually built entirely from lava flow they are name for their large size and low profile. The Starto’s volcano’s have steep sides with cones that stick out like huge bumps. They are built up when eruptions of viscous lava‚ tephra‚ and pyroclastic flows happen. The Cinder cones is a steep conical hill of tephra that accumulate
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