Essay on Earthquake

Sidebar: The largest tsunami wave ever recorded happened in 1958. An earthquake triggered a massive rockslide on the shore of Lituya Bay in southeast Alaska. Almost forty million tons of rocks splashed into bay. The sudden impact generated a tsunami that crashed against the other shoreline, flooding the area. The local tsunami traveled down the length of the bay and into the Gulf of Alaska, taking millions of trees as it blasted through the water. The wave reached a run-up height of 1,720 feet.…

enough to receive significant shaking from large earthquakes. Despite being far away from current plate boundaries, the New Madrid Fault is a dangerous zone because of the active faults that are actually buried 100 to 200 feet deep in soft river deposited soils of alluvium, making these faults harder to study because of their location underground. Most faults are found on the surface making them easier to analyze for any activity. Microseismic earthquakes (magnitude less than 1.0 to about 2.0),…

he/she must figure a way to solve the issue by that date. In the article, “THE REALLY BIG ONE”, Kathryn Schulz, discusses an earthquake that is impending and that will bring extreme devastation to the Pacific Northwest and how nobody is equipped for it. However, no one knows for absolute certain when it will occur. Therefore, people have a lack of concern for the earthquake,…

her article, “The Really Big One,”, Kathryn Schulz explores the topic of earthquakes that are expected to happen in the near future. Throughout the article, Schulz refers to a specific earthquake along the San Andreas fault line as “the big one.” Since the path of tectonic plates is highly predictable, geologists believe that an earthquake of 8.0 magnitude or greater will strike California within the next decade. This earthquake could potentially level the entire Northwestern United States and…

many, Polkinghorne believes that God makes natural processes like earthquakes run freely. Makes free will possible. This means that God created an universe with particular natural laws. Based on the information provided, God is not responsible for natural disasters like earthquakes that occur on earth. According to National geographic, 80 percent of all the planet’s earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. Most earthquakes occur at fault zones which means that the tectonic plates…

Haiti, the poorest country in the world, with over half of the population living in extreme poverty, is in desperate need of help (“Poverty in Haiti: Aid, Earthquakes, and Imperialism”). The level of poverty in Haiti is so high that it stands out from the other countries in Latin America. Because of extreme poverty, children are often separated from their families and end up living in orphanages. Many Haitians live on the streets with no access to clean water, and do not have the money nor the…

that could affect the Portland Metro area in the near future, but the three most devastating would be Earthquake, Volcano Eruption, and a landslide. There has been numerous rumor about the “big earthquake” that is long over due for the PNW. The earthquake is estimated to be a nine magnitude, which means it’s going to cause a lot of damage to Portland and could even make Portland disappear. An earthquake is generally formed when the underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release…

How much damage did the tsunami of march 11, 2011 do to the city of Japan? The tsunami was caused by an earthquake, and this one had an epicenter of only 80 miles away from Japan. This had done some major damage to Japan and the Japanese people; with the damage that a tsunami does is disastrous and catastrophic. The destruction that the water did to the land and the homes was terrible. It changed the lives of countless amounts of people and families; with all the people who lost loved ones and…

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…

Mark Twain and Jack London both write about an earthquake which took place in San Francisco. Twain wrote a narrative in order to demonstrate that when life or death situations occur, that is when people are at their worst. London writes a descriptive piece that demonstrates the destruction of an earthquake that creates a relationship between humans and earthquakes to express that they are both destructive. Although both writers write about a similar situation, they do so differently…