ragging from 1to 10‚ with 10 being the greatest. Earthquake over 6 on the Richter scale are often deadly‚ and those over 8 are generally catastrophic‚ causing terrible damage. Location However‚ a sever earthquake that is located far from population centers does not cause the same damage as a less sever one that occurs in the middle of a city. As an example‚ in 1960‚ the strongest earthquake recorded‚ 9.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale‚ struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean coastline‚ killing
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also rapidly changes. Bridge failure during strong earthquakes poses not only a threat of fatalities but causes a substantial interruption of emergency efforts. “On October 17th‚ 1989‚ the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit San Francisco Bay Area with a Richter scale of 6.9 for moment magnitude and 7.1 for surface magnitude” ("Collapse). This quake caused issues to the Oakland Bay Bridge‚ a popular bridge allowing workers to commute from the suburbs into San Francisco. During the earthquake‚ the upper deck
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6C‚ how specific can you now be as concerns the location of that earthquake? Based on the seismologist information‚ the earthquake is located at the Montana Wyoming border where the three circles intersect. 9.10 Using the nomogram‚ determine the Richter magnitude for the three earthquakes listed (see‚ p. 169 in the lab book). S arrival minus p arrival Amplitude Magnitude (A)
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This region in China has a long history as a thriving city prior to the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976. Humans lived and worked in Tangshan as early as 40‚000 years ago. It was a village during the Tang dynasty. After this dynasty‚ it was part of the Ming dynasty. During the Ming dynasty‚ Tangshan developed in agriculture‚ oil exportation‚ and ceramics. In 1889‚ this region was named Tangshan Town and later‚ it became known as the City of Tangshan. It is home to many "first" innovations in China’s
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calculate or predict the amount of reactants needed or product will be produced from a balanced equation with some known quantitative physical properties. Stoichiometry was first introduced to chemistry by Jeremias Benjamin Richter from Germany in the late 18th century. Richter carried out some of the earliest determinations of the quantities by weight of acid-base saturation and determined that it would take equivalent amount of different bases to saturate a particular acid of the same quantity.
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earth moves‚ are made of fire resistant materials and have deep and form foundations. One example of this type of design is the Trans-America Building in San Francisco‚ and the building withstood the Santa-Cruz earthquake in 1989‚ reading 7.1 on the Richter scale‚ this just shows how effective the design is at preventing
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the “most earthquake proof country” before this disaster occurred. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and many more died from the fires that followed the earthquake. On the morning of January 17th‚ many were sleeping peacefully. Earthquake analysists were aware of tremors happening‚ too small though to even to be noticed. On average there are five tremors exceeding 1.5 on the Richter
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While an earthquake the size of the Kobe quake in 1995; 7.3 on the Richter scale (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica)‚ can be expected to cause wide spread damage‚ Japan did validate that building codes can be an effective mitigation tool. While upwards of 100‚000 wood manufactured older homes collapsed during the 20 second earthquake‚ a large majority of the newer construction buildings remained intact (Todi‚ Hataya‚ Abe‚ & Miyakoshi‚ 1995). Certainly‚ building codes implemented in Japan
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GEOGRAPHY @ THE MOVIES: EARTHQUAKES Right: Image of the world’s plates. Earthquakes nomrally occur in faults‚ which is where 2 plates meet. 2012’s earthquake: Hollywood fancy or serious possibility? Roland Emmerich‚ director of previous Hollywood blockbusters ‘Godzilla’ (1998) and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ (2004)‚ has brought us a new disaster film named ‘2012’. Having proved (and been criticized about) he is familiar with using digital visual effects‚ he shows us he is no stranger
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at a conservative plate margin. Both plates moved in the same direction‚ but on plate moves faster than the other. Friction between the 2 plates creates pressure to build up and eventually it was released causing a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter Scale‚ with an epicenter 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince. Effects There were primary effects that were caused directly by the earthquake‚ and secondary effects‚ results from primary effects. Primary Effects * 316‚000 people were killed‚ 1
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