Northridge Earthquake: Response Because the Northridge earthquake occurred in the early morning hours of the Martin Luther King holiday when traffic volume was extremely light‚ emergency response needs were limited‚ and agencies were able to focus rather quickly on mobility decisions (U.S. Department of Transportation‚ 2002). Had this earthquake occurred during peak traffic hours the devastation would have been unprecedented. The USGS responded rapidly and efficiently to the Northridge earthquake‚ based
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Name: Huy Pham Effects of Earthquakes Nature is a beautiful thing‚ and there is nothing in this world without nature. It gives many wonderful things to mankind. Although nature gives many things to mankind‚ sometimes it show its terrible side. It is obvious that most of disasters are very dangerous to anything in the world. Earthquakes are one of the terrible outcomes of nature‚ and they bring a lot of big problems to humans and the animals. An earthquake is an sudden and violent shaking
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was an earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale shaked Taiwan at 1:45am on September 21‚1999. The epicenter is a mile under the ground in Nantou near Puli. There are many buildings crushed‚ and even a twelve floor-high rise building suddenly became a two floor- high rise building (the first to the sixth floors dipped into the underground‚ and the seventh to the twelfth floors went diagonally down and damaged the road.) As of press time the Disaster Management Center said 2‚034 people were confirmed
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The destructive effects of an earthquake can be classified into primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are the immediate damage caused by the quake‚ such as collapsing buildings‚ roads and bridges‚ which may kill many people. Those lucky enough to survive can suffer badly from shock and panic. Secondary effects are the after-effects of the earthquake‚ such as fires‚ tidal waves‚ landslides and disease. Fire - earthquakes destroy gas pipes and electric cables‚ causing fires to spread
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To what extent are volcanoes more harmful to our society than earthquakes? Many people may argue that volcanoes are much more dangerous than earthquakes due to the devastating impact it has on people lives and the area it takes place in; however‚ others may solidify that earthquakes are infinitely more catastrophic than volcanoes considering the amount of destruction that it causes. There are two types of plates‚ oceanic and continental. Various types of movement occur along the different types
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EARTHQUAKE 2005: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWAN: It was extremely shocking and traumatic as what happened on the morning of October 08‚ 2005: an earthquake befell as a cataclysmic event in Pakistan’s history to be remembered for a very long to come. So many people were still asleep when suddenly they were jolted awake. All at once they began screaming from houses and apartment blocks‚ confounded and staggering as repeated quakes of 7.6 on the Richter scale rocked the earth. It was Saturday‚ just before 9 a
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Haiti If you were to give people the option of traveling anywhere in the world‚ majority of people would choose beautiful vacation spots on exquisite beaches or breathtaking mountains. However‚ I am the opposite. If I was given a ticket that would take me anywhere in the world‚ I would choose to go to Haiti. Haiti has the highest percentage of orphans out of any country in the western hemisphere. The country is full of starving men and women who live lives that are unimaginable to many Americans
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Zarcone Composition II Holly Maloney 19 April 2015 Why People Need to be Educated on the ASPCA The American Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a great organization that everyone should be educated on. This organization gives us the knowledge and assistance about how we need to treat animals with respect and what to do in certain circumstances so that humans and animals can live together in harmony. If more people were educated properly o how to treat animals‚ then there
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Prediction Why didn’t scientists know about the faults that caused the two earthquakes? Prior to September 4th‚ there were no surface signs of the Greendale Fault or the fault that generated the Lyttelton aftershock and there was no evidence for seismicity on these faults (i.e. ‘foreshocks’). Seismic surveys have located some ‘hidden’ faults across parts of the Canterbury Plains‚ but these particular regions had not been surveyed for this purpose. An oil-gas seismic survey had been carried out
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What is earthquake? Earthquake is just a sudden movement of the earth’s crust caused by the release stress accumulated along geologic faults by volcanic activity but just because of this sudden movement‚ it can destroyed a city in a few minutes. As far as the environmental problems which are widely prevalent in the twenty-first century are concerned‚ earthquakes definitely stand out as the most widespread one. Even though most of the government takes measures to rout out earthquakes‚ they are disappointed
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