Essay on Earthquake in Nepal

flooding caused by the rains of El Niño. This is a picture of rescue workers cleaning up the mud brought by the flooding. In April of 2017, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the northernmost region of Peru. The earthquake could be felt in neighboring countries of Ecuador and Colombia. This map shows the epicenter and diffusion of the earthquake. In May 2017, over 5,000 Venezuelan citizens have applied for temporary residence permits in Peru to escape their declining economy. Here is a picture…

Moon Shadow tells the reader about how his dad works next to golden mountain doing laundry and some of the money he makes goes back to his mother and him. Then one day his cousin comes to them and asks Moon Shadow's mother if Moon Shadow can go work with his dad to help make more money so goes to San Francisco. Moon Shadows goes on a boat with his cousin hand clap to San Francisco but when they get to San Francisco it was not what Moonshadow expected they were nowhere near the golden mountain.…

Many factors caused the collapse which took place August 1, 2007 around 6:00pm with a number of fatalities. At the time of the I-35W Mississippi Bridge collapse construction workers were making additions to the 40 year old structure in hopes of separating the eastbound and westbound lanes. With the bridge being built in the 1960s there were many changes that needed to be made which put stress on the structure and girders over the course of time. With Tons of construction equipment and cars due…

Mount Etna an active stratovolcano that towers 3,440 meters over the city of Catania on the Mediterranean Island of Sicily,Italy. It has been erupting for half a million years and the date of the last eruption was December 3, 2015. Mt. Etna was created on a boundary between the African and Eurasian plate. It was formed because the African plate subducted under the Eurasian plate. It has explosive types of eruptions from its 3 summit crater and the lava is pahoehoe. Mt. Etna has the longest…

was a little kid, earthquakes have mesmerized me. I have always just been absolutely amazed about the amount of destruction they cause and how powerful they are. Although I have never thought of becoming a seismologist, it something I would want to learn more about. A seismologist studies seismic waves, energy waves caused by rock suddenly breaking apart within the earth or slipping of tectonic plates. There are many ways that scientists are able to study seismic ways and earthquakes. The first…

The Mount Vesuvius Volcano has erupted many times. Since AD 79, the volcano has also erupted repeatedly, in 172, 203, 222, 303, 379, 472, 512, 536, 685, 787, around 860, around 900, 968, 991, 999, 1006, 1037, 1049, around 1073, 1139, 1150, and there may have been eruptions in 1270, 1347, and 1500. The volcano erupted again in 1631, six times in the 18th century (especially in 1779 and 1794), eight times in the 19th century (notably in 1872), and in 1906, 1929 and 1944. In this assignment I am…

from the tsunami, and system failures is to blame for the meltdown. Reactors 1-3, ones most affected, rode out the quake without serious damage. It was the tsunamis that fallowed that started the chain reaction. On March 11, 2011 at 2:46pm a 9.0 earthquake hit off shore northeast of Japan, it lasted about 6 minutes. As expected, the 11 reactors at the four nearby nuclear plants were shutdown automatically when the quake hit. When the two plates on the ocean floor below slid roughly 164 feet,…

If I were to ever be involved in an volcanic eruption, my first initial action would be to take shelter, or try to evacuate the area that’s potentially hazardous. This is something that no one prepares for if they aren't around volcanoes, but anything could happen in todays world. Its always best to have an evacuation plan for yourself and your family no matter the situation. There are many ways you could prepare. You should always make sure that you have emergency food and water. You should…

On September 27, 2014 Japan’s Mount Ontake erupted catching everyone by surprise, including over 250 hikers at the resorts and shrines on the peak. In contrast recently everyone around the globe was able to track the eruption by Iceland’s Bardarbunga due to a web of advanced technology, allowing them to even track where the magma was underground. Japan has a very similar array but was unable to predict Ontake’s eruption. This is due to the fact that it was what is called a phreatic eruption, or…

Chapter One: We Honestly Weren’t Ready For Any Of This :/ Our world is slowly being torn apart. Our world is crumbling away. Soon we won't have anything left; no one will have anything left. 200 years ago, Earth was hit with a 14.0 magnitude earthquake. No one thought it was possible, no one was prepared. More than half the population died that day. The ones that did survive though, were forced to face what was left of the dead planet. North America was split into five islands, Europe…