Fault

relatively shallow depth meant that most of the energy of the earthquake was released close to the surface, resulting in a devastating catastrophe. The event was first thought to be related to the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault but actually occurred on the newly discovered Leógâne fault located near the Caribbean and North American tectonic plate boundaries.…

The Next Big One In the magazine “ The Next Big One”, by Joel Achenbach gives details about an earthquake that had happened in the past and it was really bad. The name of the fault of the type of earthquake movement was The Hayward Fault. A long and lethal crack in the earth, slices along the base of the Berkeley Hills and directly through the University of California. Now… Joel Achenbach quotes that “ We understood earthquakes better than we did a century ago, when San Francisco was…

The Owens Valley is a structural trough that has been dropped down as a graben along regional scale normal faults that separate it structurally from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west, and the White Mountains to the east (Pakiser, et al. 1964). Measured at 121 km north to south and it encompasses roughly 1400 square kilometers, the Owens Valley includes…

Have you ever seen the movement of a whip? When it is cracked it starts with small ripples at base and magnifies as the waves move towards the end. Now someone may be puzzled how in the earth that can be linked towards supply chain. The analogy is quite simple, although the consequences can be quite complex and adverse. Let’s start with an example, suppose just at the beginning of the winter season customers buy 2 moisturizer creams for the season. If there is an offer on the table,…

The Alaskan way Viaduct will collapse if an earthquake happens, but that earthquake will take many steps. These steps will got through the layers of the earth. The layers are stacked on top of eachother, like the liquids in the “Density Column lab”. The layers are inner core, outer core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, and lithosphere(upper rigid mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust). The earth's compositional layers are inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The inner core radiates…

The Framer’s Fault The constitution of United state of America was written in 1789. The constitution is the most important piece of legislature on how our system works. It contains all the rules, articles, and the Amendments that everyone in the Untied States should follow. It was written by the framers. The writing was clear according to that time especially they were alive to explain it to others. After a while, the constitution started to be misunderstood or taking for granted. “The…

"Couples who make it are not the ones who never had a reason to get divorced. They simply the ones who decided early on that their commitment to each other was always going to be bigger than their differences and flaws" (Willis). If everyone could get the people to think this way, just think how happy the world would be, adults and children would not have to suffer. Divorce is painful for children and it should be harder to get a divorce if the family has minors. First the person must look to…

experienced divorce attorney: 1. Laws vary. Despite what your best friend may have told you, laws are not the same from state to state. What may be true in California, New York, or Maryland is often not the case in Georgia. For example, consider "No Fault" divorce. While all states will recognize…

the customers instead of accessories," Women at the time didn 't just work to buy things they worked to be able to support them selves and their children so they didn 't have to rely on a man to survive because in the 1969 California passed the no fault divorce law which allowed women to get out of a bad marriage. With divorce and second marriages on a rise concepts like blended families became more and more normal. In the 1990’s the concept of family became even more complicated in the sense…

law in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador couples were prohibited from getting divorced under any circumstances. The parliament received 400 divorce appeals. During the 50 's 75 % more people wanted a divorce. In 1959 the government adopted a no fault…