review 4. Aim 5. Hypothesis 6. Scope 7. Method of Data collection 8. Survey Questionnaire 9. Gujarat’s Vulnerability to Earthquake 10. Case Study: Bhuj Earthquake 2 11. Drawbacks of the Bhuj earthquake 12. Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA) 13. Data Analysis 14. Conclusion 15. Bibliography ABSTRACT India has been traditionally vulnerable to natural disasters on account of its unique geo-climatic conditions. Floods‚ droughts‚ cyclones‚ earthquakes and landslides
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Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record in the World Location | Deaths | January 23‚ 1556 China‚ Shansi | 830‚000 | October 11‚ 1737 India‚ Calcutta | 300‚000 | August 9‚ 1138 Syria‚ Aleppo | 230‚000 | May 22‚ 1927 China‚ near Xining | 200‚000 | December 22‚ 856+ Iran‚ Damghan | 200‚000 | December 16‚ 1920 China‚ Gansu | 200‚000 | March 23‚ 893+ Iran‚ Ardabil | 150‚000 | September 1‚ 1923 Japan‚ Kwanto | 143‚000 | December 28‚ 1908 Italy‚ Messina | 70‚000 | September‚ 1290
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The gold rush of aid following the earthquake has transformed Haiti into an attractive business opportunity for the private sector; in such instances‚ the Haitian government is unaware of how many NGOs operate within the country. A recent review on relief aid distributed to Haiti by the New
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The Five Paragraph Essay The five paragraph essay measures a student’s basic writing skills‚ and is often a timed exercise. Use this Guide to help you practice and succeed at this form of writing. Getting started means getting organized: Analyze the assignment; determine what is required. With a highlighter‚ note important words that define the topic. Then organize your plan For example‚ you have been given this writing prompt: You have a present that was really memorable. It could have been given
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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 in a subducting
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EARTHQUAKE HAZARD STUDY - PANAMA Aaron Lai + Eva Fong INTRODUCTION TO THE EVENT: Panama is a small country located in Central America‚ next to Costa Rica (refer to Map 1).1 This Latin American country has a population of 3‚608‚431 people.2 Panama is also located on a minor tectonic plate called the Panama Microplate. With reference to Map 2‚ the Panama Microplate is surrounded by four other tectonic plates: the Cocos plate‚ the Caribbean plate‚ the Nazca plate‚ and the South American plate. Due
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On December‚ 6th‚ 1917‚ an unexpected explosion at Halifax‚ Harbour front had left the citizens of the Nova Scotia capital and the rest of Canada devastated. Five minutes after 9:00 a.m on that day‚ hundreds of people were killed and thousands were severely injured by the impact. A collision of two ships on the harbour due to miscommunication left everything destroyed during the time of WWI. The crash had led to the French munitions ship‚ the SS Mont-Blanc to blow up in flames. Caused by impact from
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active‚ inactive‚ and reactive fault by their chance to produce an earthquake 1.2 locate the different areas in the Philippine map which lies near active faults 1.3 demonstrate the different movement patterns of tectonic plates concerning earthquake 2. LEARNING TASK 2.1 Unit: Earthquakes and Faults 2.2 Topic: 2.2.1 Active and Inactive Faults 2.2.2 Philippine Fault System 2.3 Concepts 2.3.1 An earthquake (also known as a quake‚ tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden
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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 (7 May): An earthquake destroyed the city of
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 After doing research on significant events that occurred in the past 12 months within the Pacific Rim‚ the topic I finally decided to do my research report on was the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s many cities. I chose this topic because I was really interested about learning more about the issue and how significant it actually was. My purpose in writing this research
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