Reduction Management Plan: Disaster Preparedness According to the Word Disaster Report of 2012‚ The Philippines ranks third of the most disaster-prone countries. Because it is situated on a geologically unstable region and is surrounded by many subduction zones that may cause earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ landslides‚ typhoon and tsunamis‚ it is impossible to stop natural disasters from hitting our country; all we can do is to manage risks. The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan is
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Geo Midterm – Review The Geographical Approach Geography = Only discipline that examines patterns of phenomena on Earth. Geographers are interested in locational aspects of Earth phenomena (can it be mapped?) * Physical geography involves natural phenomena * Human/cultural geography involves phenomena caused by inhabitants Many different fields of geography overlap one another. All geographers are interested in: * A focus on spatial relationships (terrestrial) * Geographic
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it has ignited a lot of controversies. PHILIPPINE MINING ACT OF 1995 This particular act was mainly instituted to “govern the exploration‚ development‚ utilization and processing of all mineral resources within the territory and exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.” Chapter XI of Republic Act 7942‚ states that “all contractors and permittees shall strictly comply with all the mines safety rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the Secretary concerning the safe and sanitary upkeep of
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Chapter 7 Multiple Choice Questions Name: ____________________________________________________________ 1) Any network of relationships among a group of components‚ which interact with and influence one another through exchange of matter and/or information‚ is referred to as ________. A) an interchange B) a system C) an ecosystem D) an environmental collaboration E) hierarchy Diff: 1 Objective: 7.1 Systems‚ ecosystems‚ biotic‚ and abiotic
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The Pacific Ocean is home of the “Ring of Fire.” The Ring of Fire is “a geologically active area where tectonic shifts make volcanoes and earthquakes common.” (National Geographic) These volcanoes were all formed due to something called subduction. Subduction is what happens when the plates hit‚ the land from one shift under the other‚ moving kind of like a conveyor belt. Where the plate moves and bends under the other plate‚ this creates a trench. Trenches are all over the Pacific Ocean. Due to
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This is equivalent to the age of the Main Range granite which is about 198 to 220 Ma. Therefore‚ it can be said that the Jerai granite intrusion is an extension of the magmatism that moved westward from the trench in the subduction zone‚ which forms the Main Range (Ghani et al.‚ 2013). On the other hand‚ the pegmatite granite intrusion is regarded to be as another episode of intrusion which takes place after the biotite-muscovite granite and tourmaline granite intrusion as it
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GSCI Final Exam Study Guide Glaciers q 1-24 34% Text book p 570-587 Ice as a Rock - Mass of crystalline grains of the mineral ice - Like sedimentary: formed from material in deposited layers‚ can accumulate a great Thickness - Igneous: formed by the freezing of a fluid - Metamorphic: transformed by recrystallization under pressure - Flows readily downhill like a viscous fluid because of structural weakness - Glaciers: large masses of ice on land that show evidence of
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36450 people. At 1.30pm on the same day the waves hit Pothuvil‚ Panama‚ Hambantota‚ Galle in southeastern coastal towns of Sri Lanka . The mountain is located in unique area at transition between frontal subduction of Indian-Australian plate and Eurasia plate to the south of Java and oblique subduction to the west of Sumatra. The recent Tsunami originated by the undersea earthquake on the northern tip of this fault line has again hit Sri Lanka. It is incorrect to say that Sri Lanka is free from natural
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each other they create a conservative plate margin. The relative movement is horizontal‚ and classified as either sinistral (moving to the left) or dextral (moving to the right). Along these margins crust (lithosphere) is not being destroyed by subduction‚ neither is it being created. There is no melting of rock‚ and‚ therefore‚ no volcanic activity or formation of new crust. Despite the absence of volcanic activity‚ these margins are tectonically extremely active and are associated with powerful
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Research notes for Geography final assignment: List of major earthquakes in Haiti • 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake (18 October): According to French historian Moreau de Saint-Méry‚ "only one masonry building had not collapsed" in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital city. • 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake (3 June): The city was leveled in this magnitude 7.5 quake‚ which killed over 200 people. • 1783: A strong quake partially destroyed the church in Santiago.[1] • 1842 Cap-Haitien earthquake
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