2010 Haiti earthquake

September 10, the day of the hurricane, is also a national holiday for British Honduras, on which many locals gather in the streets to celebrate the defeat of Spanish conquerors by the British in 1798.[6] It is widely believed that the hurricane struck without any warning, although some recent historians have disputed this. In his column for The Belize Times on September 5, 2004, Emory King claimed that Belizean authorities withheld continuous warnings from U.S. ships in the region of a possible…

During my life, it was hard for me because my country Haiti met with an earthquake, in Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people, the morgue was inundated with thousands of corpses. Some day later I was frustrated and came to live in a psychotic manifestations of depression. I had suffered tremendous shock. I thought about my family and friend, I wandered the street and had lost my mind. Some days later others were drinking much more alcohol than before. I think I may be close to…

of over 6,400 islands, the largest of which are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. As for their population, they are considered to have one of the largest population and they also have the world's largest economy. The Tsunami was caused by an earthquake which was felt by other nations under the ocean floor, and it…

up and has to be expelled in the form of an earthquake. The regions for seismic activity in Canada are: the Cordillera region, British Columbia, the Arctic and to a smaller extend, and central Quebec. More than 4,000 earthquakes occur in Canada every year. The western regions are the most seismically active region in Canada. More than 100 earthquakes with a magnitude of 5 or more have occured in Canada over the past 70 years. In 1949 a massive earthquake with the magnitude of 8.1 occurred in…

resulting earthquake occurs. Energy released from these geologic phenomenon are measured in a machine called a Richter Scale. The Richter Scale measures seismic waves through the ground after the initial shock in the epicenter of the Earthquake and puts it into a category of size which is magnitude. The highest magnitude quake ever recorded was of 9.1-9.3 magnitude in 2004 in Aceh Indonesia and completely devastated the region along a fault there is a lot of reasons why an earthquake might…

Park. Then, at around 5:03pm not long before the scheduled first pitch, an earthquake hit the stadium as well as the surrounding area. According to the History Channel, the stadium withstood the quake but the surrounding area didn’t fair quite as well. Sixty-seven people lost their lives while thousands of others suffered…

has been the location of some of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Few earthquakes in the southern hemisphere, or even in the entire world, compare to The Great Chilean Earthquake in May of 1960. In Figure 1.1, Richard Aster places the most powerful earthquakes from the last one-hundred years in a pie chart. The Great Chilean Earthquake accounts for nearly 20% of the total global seismic moment release. At a moment magnitude of 9.5, the earthquake caused astronomical amounts of damage to…

and practice getting there. Also choose a spot out of town in case you can’t get home. Practice getting there from anywhere you frequently are” (“Call”). You should be aware of some warning signs for a volcano. Some warning signs may include earthquakes near the volcano, or if the mountain starts smoking. There are some things that you should do before, during, and immediately after the volcano…

The convergence of three separate disasters in Fukushima Prefecture – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis – is not only unique in terms of its scale and complexity, but also about the complicated interaction of health problems to which it may have given rise. The great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake that killed over 6,000 people in 1995 showed that in Japan disasters can affect different population groups with differing severity and that the elderly are especially vulnerable. For many…

it is a reverse fault. A reverse fault is when a hanging wall slides up a footwall. This is a type of convergent boundary where two plates compress together. The New Madrid Seismic zone is known historically for a series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812. The first earthquake occurred in Northeast Arkansas with a magnitude of 7.5. This was on December…