safety. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan was a disastrous event in mankind. It killed thousands and displaced even more. The reason that I want to become an engineer is so that I can improve the lives of people all around the world by making life safer. My goal is to become educated by going to an institution for higher learning in order to improve the safety of others. By creating better methods of engineering‚ we as a society can become a safer people. The massive earthquake that triggered
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continues‚ millions and millions of years from now the Atlantic Ocean will be larger than the Pacific Ocean. 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
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Did you know Mt. Vesuvius erupted more than 50 times? It erupted in 79A.D. In about 25 hours‚ it wipes our entire town. Mt. Vesuvius is unique as a volcano because of its activity level‚ the remains of Pompeii and its lessons frozen in history. Firstly‚ Mt Vesuvius is unique as a volcano because of its activity level. Its last serious eruption was in 1944. It’s one of the only active volcanos on the mainland of Europe. It’s considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in world due to the
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Case Study of Mount St. Helens Date: 18th May‚ 1980 Time: 8:30-8:33 8: 30—ash and steam erupted. 8:32—earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale caused the bulge on the north side of the mountain to move forwards and downwards‚ releasing material that formed a landslide of rock‚ glacier‚ ice‚ and soil that moved downhill to fill Spirit Lake. However‚ the water only reinforced it‚ and it moved rapidly down the northern fork of the Toutle Valley. The mudflow reached
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need in another place and action needs to be taken Primary Audience Outcome: I want the audience to notice there are others suffering more than themselves. It doesn’t hurt to lend a helping hand. Introduction: Two years on from the catastrophic earthquake which struck Haiti‚ killing more than 200‚000 people and making millions more homeless‚ work to recover continues. Nearly a million people have now left the camps which sprang up after the disaster‚ a new Haitian Government has been sworn into power
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El Salvador‚ a small country in Central America‚ has had a huge historical housing deficit that started to improve in the late 1990s. However‚ the earthquakes in early 2001 shook not only the country‚ but also the country’s economic and social foundations thus rendering the need for new housing policies. This is the backdrop of the housing shortage in El Salvador today. Due to many factors‚ the country that was once stable in adequate housing now is facing an issue with lack of shelter for millions
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have the most of the nature assortment and wealth. However‚ for every beautiful thing there is in California‚ comes a dangerous price for it. California is most likely to experience earthquakes‚ severe droughts‚ wildfires‚ floods‚ which can be catastrophic and already had been defined in the history. Its earthquakes are severe and
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great earthquakes? Because uniformitarianism shows us that if our earths plates are moving today‚ they were moving in the past. This moving of the plates causing things such as earthquakes. In what ways do geologic processes affect your daily life? Geology is the study of earth‚ which is where we live. Understanding geology and how it works‚ helps us understand how it affects us. We use up earths resources such as oil‚ coal‚ and minerals. Geology helps us understand volcanoes and earthquakes. We are
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water‚ through friction between the air molecules and the water molecules. The stronger the winds‚ the stronger the waves. Water waves usually do not go horizontally‚ they only move up and down. Some factors that also cause waves are tsunamis‚ earthquakes‚ and hurricanes. Surprisingly‚ wind speeds‚ the distance over which the winds blow‚ and the time that the winds are in contact with the water all determine the height and speed of the wave. Waves can travel thousands of miles from their source of
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