Essay on Earthquake in Nepal

The amount of monetary damage from an earthquake and the loss of life, depends on the type of soil, the retrofitting of the land, and how dense the population of that city is. In 1989, San Fransisco, California, was hit with a 15-second earthquake; the earthquake was 7.1 in magnitude. The fault of this earthquake was on the San Andres fault line. The damage from this earthquake was very severe, roadways were torn apart, and houses were destroyed. The area of the most damage was built on poor…

Civil Engineers Earthquakes pose an enhanced threat to structures compared to other natural disasters, because this disaster type offers no time to prepare. This leaves engineers with an enormous task; since it is impossible to determine where seismic activity will occur well in advance, engineers can only forecast potential high-risk areas. Armed with this information, the engineers then ensure that all structures in a large geographic region can stand up to the next earthquake that may occur.…

in the ocean. The way they form and their features are alike and different in many ways. Rogue waves and tsunamis both form in the ocean but form in different ways. Tsunamis can form in multiple ways. In source 2 it says, Tsunamis can form from earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides on the ocean floor. Large meteorites can cause tsunamis when they hit the water. When tsunamis hit shallow water its acts as a ramp pushing the water up higher. As it states in passage one paragraph 6 “A strong…

Sushil Bhandari (1997) defined vibration as a repeated movement in the normal rest position. The parameters involved with vibration are commonly amplitude or displacement and velocity or acceleration of the ground movement (Visvan, 2005). During demolition operation, vibration is normally caused by the impact of fallen structures or by the use of explosives (BS 6187:2000), which could pose detrimental effects of structural damage of adjacent premises, buried services like gas pipes, disturbance…

Many fatal earthquakes happen annually, but none as strange and horrific as the events before and during the tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011 in Japan. An earthquake is a release of stress that is located in the earth’s interior. The earthquake is activated when there is a quick movement over a fault causing the tectonic plates to shift (Rothery, D, 1997, p.31, 33, 42, 44). The very strange events occurring in Japan included strange animal behavior recorded, many beaching incidents in and…

Tsunamis can form in a variety of ways; they are produced by earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and other seismic disturbances of the sea floor. In the deep open ocean, tsunami waves are usually less than 1 meter and are hardly noticeable. However, they are much longer and travel much faster than ordinary wind waves. They can have wavelengths of 240 kilometers and travel at over 700 kilometers per hour. As tsunami waves approach the shore, shoaling occurs and the waves become dangerous.…

magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami with waves peaking at 17 meters hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Three of the reactors at Fukushima overheated because the cooling systems failed after a tsunami flooded the power station and disabled the reactor cooling system which causing core meltdowns and make reactors impossible to restart . This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and released large amounts of radioactive material into the air, and the releases continue to this day. The accident…

however, on 12 May 2008 at 2.28 p.m., a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan. It was the twelfth most destructive earthquake in human history and the largest disaster in China since the Tangshan earthquake in 1976. There are totally 87,000 casualties and 46 million people in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Chongqing are affected by the earthquake. Tremors were even felt by residents in Beijing and Shanghai, a thousand miles away (Bin). The earthquake causes a huge economy loss and severe citizen…

On 12 November 2017, northeast Iraq experienced an earthquake from the city of Halabja. According to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, approximately 1,840,000 people live with within 100km of the epicenter of this earthquake in both Iraq and Iran. There have been nine reported fatalities and over 550 people injured in Iraq as a result of the earthquake. The Darbandikhan areas has been most severely impacted, with most earthquake related injuries reported in Darbandikhan, Halabja…

INTERNATIONAL MASTER PROGRAM ON NATURAL HAZARDS MITIGATION AND MANAGEMENT (2 0 1 6) Disaster risk reduction strategy and policy implementation in Haiti: A case study of 1/12 earthquake Ersnt Fiefiea,∗ a School of Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1, University Road, Tainan City, Taiwan(R.O.C) Thesis info Abstract Thesis history: Presented: Date Defended: Date Received in revised form: Date Achieved: Date Available online: Date Keywords: Disaster, Risk…