Earthquake

            Heinrich von Kleist’s “The Earthquake in Chile” presented a number of ideas and concepts embedded within the story of star-crossed lovers Jeronimo Rugera and Josephe Asteron. By and large, it was a representation of many themes in one story such that the major ideas of providence, then social injustice and disintegration, and the hope…

Volcanoes and Earthquakes test Bew c. 1. Where do earthquakes occur? Earthquakes occur at breaks in the earth’s crust called the fault lines. 2. What causes Earthquakes? Tectonic plates pushing, pulling, slipping past each other increasing the stress and causes elastic rebound to happen. During elastic rebound, energy is released and some travel as seismic…

Within the “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London he uses vivid language to describe the San Francisco Earthquake. As he tells the report about the earthquake, he uses descriptive words to explain the damages to the city. For example the smoke was able to be seen from hundred miles away. London also describes…

The tsunami of 2004 was a very devastating loss for many people around the eastern coast of India. It caused a lot of damage to the area. Even though the tsunami was pretty bad, some of the effected countries were able to start quickly recovering. The tsunami was a very traumatic experience for people in…

Haiti is the poorest state in the Western Hemisphere. and is ranked 149th of 182 states on the Human Development Index. The Australian government’s travel consultative site had antecedently expressed concerns that Haitian exigency services would be unable to get by in the event of a major catastrophe. and the state is considered “economically vulnerable”…

The reason why the earthquake accrued is the Nazca Plate has been colliding and subducting underneath the South American plate for thousands of years. The 1960 Chile earthquake was caused by the Nazca plate releasing tension and descending 15 meters underneath the South American Plate. The earthquake accrued because of plates. The people of the…

The 1999 Izmit Earthquake Disaster Report, TurkeyIntroductionIn the year 1999, turkey was hit by a serious earthquake known as the Kocaeli. The Mw 7. 4 earthquake is one of the world’s largest and best studied earth’s horizontal movement (strike slip faults). The earthquake occurred on the east west fault of north Anatolian which is similar…

When designing earthquake safe structures, the top priority is to ensure that the highest part, which is the roof, weighs as little as possible. The most effective way to achieve this is by using profiled steel cladding on light gauge steel Zed purlins. This cladding can be made with a double skin, including spacers and…

Introduction In early 2010 central south Chile experienced a Mw = 8. 8 earthquake and large tsunami waves that devastated areas on the Chilean Pacific coast, nearby offshore islands, and areas near the epicenter. In addition to the tsunami, the earthquake had many other geological consequences including aftershocks, terrestrial and submarine land-sliding, elevation changes, and…

The natural hazards caused by plate tectonics are more a result of human factors than physical ones. Discuss to what extent do you agree with this statement? A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. The Earth’s lithosphere (crust) is divided…