Earthquakes are more newsworthy but we ignore other geological hazards at our peril. Discuss. (40marks) Geological hazards are events that are perceived as a threat to people‚ poverty and nature‚ which originate in‚ or transmitted by the physical‚ built or human environment. These can include volcanoes‚ hurricanes and earthquakes‚ which all have various effects ranging from affecting people to the natural and physical environment. Looking at earthquakes in particular‚ which are vibrations of the
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Impact of Kashmir earthquake of 2005 and its effect on the Pakistani Economy Abstract This paper will detail the events of the Kashmir earthquake of 2005 in Pakistan and examine its deleterious social and economic effects on the population in this region. Through the use of a variety of primary and secondary sources‚ this paper will seek to identify the causes of the damage and the reasons for which its primary and secondary effects were so harmful. It will analyze the earthquake and its repercussions
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Andreas Fault and its role in Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Prediction The San Andreas Fault is one of the most widely studied faults in the world. Scientists use an array of methods in collecting data and providing analysis of fault characteristics both past and present. Presently there are many differing hypothesis and models used to describe crustal movements and deformation within the Pacific and North American plate boundary. Historical earthquakes along this fault have proven to be rather large
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What you would do before‚ during and after an earthquake? Earthquake is a natural phenomenon that happens all over the world. It causes a lot of horrible losses and sometimes even human losses. It shivers even when we talk about it‚ it’s like been played with‚ you can think only about one thing that your life is about to end. So what you would do before‚ during and after the earthquake if you knew that it might happen in a week?! At the beginning you must know how to be prepared is a good question
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killing thousands of people. The word volcano comes from the term Vulcan‚ which was a name the ancient Romans gave their god of fire. Volcanoes played a role in the religious life of some of these people‚ and they believed that god lived beneath a volcanic island off the Italian coast. Powerful forces within in the earth ’s surface cause the formation of volcanoes. Volcanoes begin as magma‚ deep inside the earth‚ which is caused by the extreme heat within the earth ’s interior. Magma develops from 15
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understanding of the distribution of either earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. Plate tectonics can help us understand the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes very easily‚ it is recorded that main earthquake and volcanic zones are clustered along plate boundaries and more powerful ones are near destructive and conservative plate boundaries. Over time we have learnt that earthquakes that occur on a constructive plate boundary cause little hazard to people‚ earthquakes that occur on two oceanic plates
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of plate tectonics help to explain the world distribution of earthquake and volcanic zones? The Earth’s crust is made up of seven major plates and several smaller plates. These plates drift on top of the mantle. When two plates meet‚ they can either be constructive‚ destructive or conservative. At a conservative plate margin‚ one plate moves past another. As the plates are not smooth‚ great amounts of tension build up and earthquakes are made when the tension is released and the plate moves. An
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“Macro effects of Massive Earthquake upon Economic in Japan 2011 to 2013” Macro Economics June 27‚ 2013 For: Dr. Sarri‚ Samuel Nevada State Higher Education‚ Summer 2013 I‚ the undersigned‚ IQ‚ hereby‚ certify that this Macro Scientific Research Paper is the result of my own intellectual and scientific endeavors. Date: 6/27/13 Index 1. Title page----Page
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LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS| EARTHQUAKE WORD PROBLEMS: As with any word problem‚ the trick is convert a narrative statement or question to a mathematical statement. Before we start‚ let’s talk about earthquakes and how we measure their intensity. In 1935 Charles Richter defined the magnitude of an earthquake to be where I is the intensity of the earthquake (measured by the amplitude of a seismograph reading taken 100 km from the epicenter of the earthquake) and S is the intensity of
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react to modern earthquake‚ if they only believed in myths Earthquakes have been a mystery to humans for thousands of years. They have been speculated and written about. But what if we as twenty first century humans did not understand how earthquakes worked? How would we respond to an earthquake if we only believed that earthquakes were created by angry gods or mischievous animals? In ancient time catfish‚ snakes‚ elephants‚ and turtles were all associated with earthquakes. The civilizations
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