The article I chose was written by Beck Oskin about Nepal’s recent earthquake but it tends to focus on the movement of the land upward. It also talks about Mt. Everest, explaining why the damage in the city was so severe.
Europe's Sentinel-1A is a radar satellite that recently (this past Wednesday) had released some new data. According to that data, the article states that a region of Nepal 75 miles (120 kilometers) long by 30 miles (50 km) wide was lifted upward by as much as 3 feet during the earthquake. It had been stated that images from the radar revealed that Mount Everest, as well as some of the world's tallest points, had dropped by about 1 inch (2.5 cm). Knowing this information is helping with the relief effort going on currently because it lets us know where there were the most landslides and with identifying those areas we know where to look for survivors and people in dire need of assistance. …show more content…
In the Earth Science lecture week 3 (February 10th to February 12th) we had just started talking about plate tectonics. We learned about the three types of plate boundaries (convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and transform plate boundaries). With relation to the earthquake in Nepal, it was caused by the stress of two tectonic plates that were located at a convergent plate boundary: the Indian plate and the overriding Eurasian plate. It was really interesting being familiar with, and able to utilize the vocabulary used in the
Europe's Sentinel-1A is a radar satellite that recently (this past Wednesday) had released some new data. According to that data, the article states that a region of Nepal 75 miles (120 kilometers) long by 30 miles (50 km) wide was lifted upward by as much as 3 feet during the earthquake. It had been stated that images from the radar revealed that Mount Everest, as well as some of the world's tallest points, had dropped by about 1 inch (2.5 cm). Knowing this information is helping with the relief effort going on currently because it lets us know where there were the most landslides and with identifying those areas we know where to look for survivors and people in dire need of assistance. …show more content…
In the Earth Science lecture week 3 (February 10th to February 12th) we had just started talking about plate tectonics. We learned about the three types of plate boundaries (convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and transform plate boundaries). With relation to the earthquake in Nepal, it was caused by the stress of two tectonic plates that were located at a convergent plate boundary: the Indian plate and the overriding Eurasian plate. It was really interesting being familiar with, and able to utilize the vocabulary used in the