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The 2001 Gujarat earthquake occurred on January 26, 2001, at 03:17 UTC, and coincided with the 51st celebration of India’s Republic Day. The location of the epicenter was Bhuj (23. 6° N 69. 8° E) Gujarat, India. With a moment magnitude (Mw) of between 7. 6 and 8. 1, the quake killed more than 20,000…

Taal volcano, situated in Tagaytay, is a vibrant green island abundant with vegetation. However, it also contains areas that resemble a “desert” due to the ash and cinder from the Kaygabok Lava Flow in 1969. Located about 2 hours south of Manila (Figure 1), Taal Volcano Island resides in the midst of Taal Lake. Considered…

In order to assess the accuracy of the statement “The wealth of a country influences the nature of the earthquake event experienced there,” we will conduct a comparison between the Kobe earthquake (1995) and the Sichuan earthquake (2008). The claim can be confirmed by studying the stronger infrastructures of more economically developed countries (MEDCs), designed…

On the 17th of January 1995, a great earthquake struck the Japanese city of Kobe at 5:40 am. Over 80% of the quake victims died together with Mrs Endo, her husband, however, did not! There are numerous reasons why, the aim of this essay is to explain them to you. The earthquake started due to…

After the Great earthquake, many building, road and other facilities were damaged. All of the highways into Wenchuan, and others throughout Sichuan province, were damaged, resulting in delayed arrival of the rescue troops. In Beichuan county, 80% of the buildings collapsed according to Xinhua News. In the city of Dujiangyan, south-east of the epicenter, a…

THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE OF 1812 Some of the most severe earthquakes in the United States occurred not on the Pacific Coast but in the middle of the continent in southeastern Missouri near the town of New Madrid. There are many things that were unusual about the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. The location is…

1) Comment on the degree to which the area of the Philippines might be subject to tectonic hazards (7 marks)Figure 1 shows that the Philippines is heavily affected by tectonic activity. The country is surrounded by deep ocean trenches (e.g. the Manila Trench) running parallel to the coastline which has a convergent plate margin. They…

On July 28, 1976, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (other sources estimate the magnitude as high as 8.2-8.3 on the Richter scale) occurred in the People’s Republic of China, with the epicenter near Tangshan, the Hebei Province. The earthquake struck at 3:42 a.m. and lasted for 10-14 seconds resulting in an extensive 6-mile-long fault in the…

What are Earthquakes?The actual defining of a earthquake is: A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. Basically what its saying is that when a tectonic plate slips past another and when that happens its called a fault or…

Every twelvemonth there are about a million temblors. Fortunately, non all of them are destructive. The strength of an temblor is measured on the Richter Scale, which goes from zero upward. Major harm by and large occurs from temblors runing from 6.0 upwards. The damaging temblors besides occur either in the narrow belt, which surrounds…