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    to struggle reconsolidating with the nature. This consolidation refers to keeping the nature preserved from desolation while the society lives in peaceful minds being safe from disasters. According to Yulianto, et al. (2009), disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, etc. are part of God’s gift along with the earth (including minerals, oil, gas, etc.) that both sustains and endangers us. As a country with overflowing natural fortunes, we need to contemplate with natural disasters…

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    literally smashes shale rock with millions of gallons of water and chemicals to access the gas. This process is very unnecessarily harmful in many ways. It hurts the environment and climate, it hurts the health of humans, and it causes dangerous earthquakes. This practice only benefits the big businesses and oil companies, and should be stopped as soon as possible. In any area of the globe, fracking causes damage and destruction of the environment. The natural gas option that was previously seen…

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    Fracking In Texas

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    When I were woken up by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake from Pawnee, Oklahoma on last Saturday morning, I just thought I was in a dream. Is Texas near a seismic zone? Again, I heard my cousin, a petroleum engineer, talk about the hydraulic fracturing which causes the frequent earthquakes recently. hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is widely used by the oil and gas companies in Texas and Oklahoma to produce oil and natural gas. Although hydraulic fracturing technology successfully reduce…

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    just a horrible way of dying. One of them is natural disasters like earthquakes. According to earthquake.usgs.gov an earthquake is when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. This means that the tectonic plates of the earth slip together and make an unequal surface on the earth. Also, www.dosomething.org tells us that The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) records an average of 20,000 earthquakes every year (about 50 a day) around the world, there are so much…

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    Dangers Of Fracking

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    Hydraulic fracturing is the process used to fracture shale rock deposits, allowing the extraction oil and natural gas from deep below the earth’s surface. The drilling and fracturing process produces large amounts of contaminated wastewater that is pressurized and forced back into the ground deep below the earth’s surface. Over the last several years there have been many debates over the dangers of “Fracking” and the economic impact. There are a lot of concerns from environmental groups and…

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    Why Fracking Is Bad

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    Fracking isn't all good fracking can cause earthquakes in the earth because of the holes it makes.it all started in the 1990s whn they figued out they could get oil out of fractured rocks with a easy metad of getting it. Fracking can produce oil for a cheaper price and create jobs but the damages it does to the earth is worse than having cheaper oil. Fracking causes the earth to have earthquakes which the earth is not used to man made earthquakes. the oil and gas industry isn’t required to…

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    cause an earthquake. Not all earthquakes can be big, but if your working on a fracking site and an earthquake occurs it can be dangerous for the workers when dealing with heavey equipment and fracking chemcials. “Although most of the earthquakes are small in magnitude (the strongest measured 5.2), their relationship with the storage of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater does little to ease the fears over fossil energy's long list of externalities”(Case Studies, 2018). Fracking earthquakes…

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    The country 's capital Federal District was the worst hit. This seismological phenomenon occurred at 7:19 a.m. Central Time with a magnitude of 8.1, whose was approximately just over two minutes, outperforming in intensity and damage the earthquake on July 28, 1957 also in the city of Mexico. The government reported the death of 6,000 to 7,000 people. However, years later with the opening of information from various government sources, the approximate register was estimated at 10,000 dead…

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    Poseidon is the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. As god of horses, he often could adopt the shape of a steed and as god of earthquakes, he used the trident to make the earth shake causing earthquakes. Poseidon is a brother to Zeus and Hades. At birth Poseidon was swallowed whole by his father Cronus. After the overthrow of their father, Cronus these three gods divided up the universe. Zeus became ruler of the sky, Hades got control of the Underworld and Poseidon was given all water, both…

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    Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the…

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