Essay on Earthquake

It was December of 2004 in Aceh, Indonesia, and Richard Lewis was 60 year old author living in Bali, Indonesia. Richard Lewis longed to write a story to represent the lesson, be cooperative and show teamwork. As a volunteer after the tsunami took place, Richard Lewis was able to witness with his own eyes, the misery and destruction after a major disaster that affected many innocent lives. One historical fact is that Lewis knew about how many people were killed from this tragedy. About 228,000…

A Collective Alienation Rumors have a profound effect on human interaction, and can cause stressful isolation of certain groups. The powerful effects of rumors in post-trauma societies is revealed in the articles, Narratives of Uncertainty: The Affective Force of Child-Trafficking Rumors in Postdisaster Aceh, Indonesia by Annemarie Samuels and Gendered War and Rumors of Saddam Hussein in Uganda by Sverker Finnström. Although mere stories or potentially false statements, rumors reveal the…

protections can protect against most earthquakes, however, earthquakes can get to be very powerful. An earthquake’s magnitude can be measured on a scale developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter, called the Richter Scale. The scale measures in a whole digit followed by decimal fractions, so it can be read like a 2.3, or a 7.9 earthquake. The scale measure goes from low to high, with each whole number increase representing a tenfold increase in magnitude. Earthquakes that measure around or…

Key Question The key question for this research project is: what is the relationship of earthquakes and volcanoes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge compared to Iceland? Introduction Iceland is located over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate, and is an example of a mid ocean ridge seen on land. Iceland has divergent and transform plate boundaries, which are also seen along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The North American plate, with respect to the Eurasian…

tsunami waves. “On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 struck off the coast of Honshu “ (Funk & Wagnalls). The reactors that were in use shut down automatically when the earthquake hit by inserting control rods as mentioned above. Because the earthquake was so powerful, external electricity sources were destroyed so the operators had to turn on the generators to keep the cooling system on. The earthquake was something…

and destroyed. A terrible earthquake and a raging fire demolished most of the San Francisco city. This earthquake took place on April 18, 1906 at 5:15 a.m. Most of the city was still asleep when the tremors started. The first tremor lasted about 1 minute, although it was the biggest one. Other smaller tremors continued throughout the morning. Many buildings and houses were crumbled, whilst gas and water lines broke starting a fire. Around 315 people died during the earthquake, but the overall…

different disasters that happened were the earthquake in Haiti, the Hurricane in New Orleans, and the flood in the Dakotas. The different disasters have different groups that were socially vulnerable. On January 12th of 2010 there was a massive earthquake that accrued in Haiti. The earthquake didn’t just last for that one day on the 12th of January there where still 52 aftershocks within 12 days after the earthquake occurred. Haiti has had other earthquakes in the past like…

relates to an environmental disaster that is unpredictable and results in a serious effect on the environment (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2015). The San Andreas shows one fascinating aspect of American disaster film that presents two apocalyptic, an earthquake and a tsunami by addressing the most-commonly portrayed environmental disaster. Along with showing the powerful natural disaster, this film concentrates on informing catastrophe and post-apocalyptic disaster. To begin with, the San Andreas is…

For my “specialty,” I had seismology. Seismology is the branch of geology that studies earthquake behaviors. In this case, I had to deal with earthquakes and the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. My plan was to look at where the map had different elevation patterns, so I can differentiate them into groups. I found 3 different categories, and identified them as Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3. My first category is a blue (X) to represent the boundaries outside the Pacific, South American, and…

Roosevelt, president of the United States passed the Meat Inspection policy in June 30, 1906. A couple of months before the Federal Meat Inspection Act became a law, in April 18, 1906 there was a major earthquake in the city of San Francisco. It wasn’t just a simple earthquake. It was a massive earthquake…