EARTHQUAKES o Plates sliding pass each other create friction o Friction builds up creating stress (a force) o Force is greater than plate can withstand‚ budges and breaks‚ creating earthquakes o Release a lot of energy KEY TERMS Seismology- the study of earthquakes and their effects Seismometer/ Seismograph - equipment measuring the amount of ground motion caused by an earthquake ***Let’s do a demo*** Seismogram- record of ground motion produced
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2011 Christchurch earthquake From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search "Christchurch earthquake" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Christchurch earthquake (disambiguation). For the 13 June 2011 aftershock‚ see June 2011 Christchurch earthquake. February 2011 Christchurch earthquake | ChristChurch Cathedral and the Cathedral Square | Quake epicentre | Date | 22 February 2011 (2011-02-22)‚ 12:51 pm NZDT | Magnitude | 6.3 ML[1] | Depth | 5 km (3.1 mi) | Epicenter
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Part 1 of 1 - 40.85/ 100.00001 Points Question 1 of 22 4.55/ 4.55 Points Record your answer from Lab Exercise #1‚ Step 1‚ Question 1.What time in hours:minutes:seconds GMT did the P waves arrive? A. 01:48:00 Correct B. 01:49:00 C. 01:50:00 D. 01:51:00 Answer Key: B Question 2 of 22 0.0/ 4.55 Points Record your answer from Lab Exercise #1‚ Step 1‚ Question 2. What time in hours:minutes:seconds GMT did the S waves arrive? A. 01:51:30 B. 01:52:00
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Earthquakes are one of the most destructive of natural hazards. Earthquake occurs due to sudden transient motion of the ground as a result of release of elastic energy in a matter of few seconds. The impact of the event is most traumatic because it affects large area‚ occurs all on a sudden and unpredictable. They can cause large scale loss of life and property and disrupts essential services such as water supply‚ sewerage systems‚ communication and power‚ transport etc. They not only destroy villages
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2013 Lushan earthquake | | Date | April 20‚ 2013 | Magnitude | Mw 7.0 (GA)[1] Ms 7.0 (CENC)[2] Mw 6.6 (USGS)[3] Mw 6.6 (EMSC)[4] Mj 6.9 (JMA)[5] | Depth | < 13 km (8.1 mi)[6] | Epicenter | 30°17′02″N 102°57′22″ECoordinates: 30°17′02″N 102°57′22″E[3] Lushan County‚ Sichuan | Countries | China | Aftershocks | 1‚815[7] | Casualties | 193 dead 24 missing 11‚826 injured 968 injured seriously | The Lushan earthquake or Ya’an earthquake occurred in China on 20th April‚ 2013
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I met with the gentlemen of Graffiti Research Lab Vienna‚ aka‚ GRLv‚ and they were kind enough to break it on down and show me how to set up a laptop‚ camera‚ projector‚ and laser to be a nondestructive and awesome graffiti tool. The following is copied directly and without edits from the README file as found in the Laser Marker zipfile that you can find in the sidebar at http://graffitiresearchlab.at. Laser Marker // Graffiti Research Lab Vienna ======================== ====== ======================
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In 2010‚ a huge earthquake hit Haiti and almost flattened the tiny country. A year later‚ in 2011‚ an equally huge if not bigger earthquake hit Japan. Many people were affected in Japan but now the country is running smoothly again while Haiti’s poverty rates are still as a high as 80%. Why did these earthquakes have such different effects on these countries? The most significant reason these earthquakes had such different effects is the simple matter that Japan is just much more prepared than
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info-spirit-net with one goal held by all -- to keep this controversial new science in the public eye. The result of the team’s effort was a book which describes the science and the political ramifications of this technology. That book‚ Angels Don’t Play this HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology‚ has 230 pages. This article will only give the highlights. Despite the amount of research (350 footnoted sources)‚ at its heart it is a story about ordinary people who took on an extraordinary challenge in bringing
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Kobe Earthquake – Case Study Kobe Earthquake – Case Study In the early morning of January the 17th 1995 instruments in a lab in western Japan picked up a burst of intense electro-magnetic radiation. It was the signature of a massive earthquake which had just struck the City of Kobe from its epicentre 20 kilometres to the south west. There was no warning‚ 180‚000 buildings were destroyed‚ an urban area 20 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide was totally wrecked. Nothing moved in or out of Kobe
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AND TECHNOLOGY DEPERTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING Assignment Course title: HUM- 2110 Course Name: English Language Lab Date of Submission: 23/07/2012 Submitted To: Kazi Dawood Hafiz Submitted By: Md Shakib Akther Rahat Roll : 11.01.05.106 Section : B(B2) Year : 02 ‚ Semester : 01 The Effectiveness of Using Technology in English Language Learning Through Language lab Introduction One of the most substantial uses in education is the use of technology. Also
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