Fresno Pacific University

Overview A 9.0 magnitude earthquake began on March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 PM and lasted 3 minutes (World Nuclear Association, 2016). The earthquake was centered 130 km off the shore of Sendai Myagi on the east coast of Honshu Island. Consequentially, the island to move four meters to the east and surrounding coastlines were subsided by up to one meter. The earthquake also created a tsunami reaching as high as 40 meters. At the time of the earthquake, there were 11 nuclear reactors operating in the…

California is the privileged place of nature, there is always sunny, liberty, strong economic development and is also one of the 6 strongest economies worldwide. After President trump winner, then many movements are rising. One of them is “Calexit” which makes about 1/3 of Californian want California break away from the United States. According to the LA Times newspaper, 'Calexit' would be a disaster for progressive values by Conor Friedersdorf, the writer states, “Californians are better…

These Hawaiian Islands have been inhabited for centuries before the first ships sailed across the Pacific. Hawaiian Islands have been shrouded in mystery since their history had been passed along vocally for centuries. Hawaiian culture hasn’t changed drastically ever since they inhabited the islands, until European and American explorers discovered the islands. This pair interested me the most because both nations have two completely different identities, but the Hawaiian Islands later become…

each other and the capital of the USA, Washington, D.C., are in North America in between Canada and Mexico. The state Alaska is in the northwest part of North America and the state Hawaii is an island in the Pacific Ocean. The United States is the world's fourth-largest country by area and is the third-largest by population. The largest city in the United States is New York City in the state of New York. A long…

directed by the PRA. Initially, the Army divided the 1,500-mile project into five segments, with PRA contractors responsible for the portion from Whitehorse to Big Delta, about 560 miles. With so many soldiers needed to fight the war in the European and Pacific theaters of operation, the U.S. Army was in need of men for their half of the…

Did Salmon Rule? Enquiring when intensive storage and sedentism began on the Northwest Coast Introduction Background Namu, located in the traditional territory of the Heiltsuk Nation on the central coast of British Columbia is an archaeological obscurity, as no one can be sure of the actual time frame of intensive storage and sedimentation occurrences. On the Northwest Coast "salmon remains, the representation of cranial elements versus vertebrae, mass capture technology and storage…

The Easter Island or Isla de Pascua covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean 2,300 miles from Chiles west coast. It currently has 887 still existing statues averaging 13 feet tall carved out of tuff which is the light, porous rock formed by consolidated volcanic ash on the island which proved that there was a rich culture among the settlers which first discovered it. These staues were placed on ceremonial stone platforms called ahus however till this day there is no information…

is about 46.7 years” (“Japan Population World, 2016), and they were not prepared for this type of disaster. The layout of Japan is that it is an island and according to Geography of Japan (n.d.) states that Japan is located in eastern Asia in the Pacific Ocean to the east of China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea, and it is an archipelago that is made up of over 6,400 islands, the largest of which are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. As for their population, they are considered to have…

Chile has been the location of some of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Few earthquakes in the southern hemisphere, or even in the entire world, compare to The Great Chilean Earthquake in May of 1960. In Figure 1.1, Richard Aster places the most powerful earthquakes from the last one-hundred years in a pie chart. The Great Chilean Earthquake accounts for nearly 20% of the total global seismic moment release. At a moment magnitude of 9.5, the earthquake caused astronomical amounts of damage…

The first of the four required sections that I read was titled, “Making the Dirt Fly”. This particular section outlined a few of the many obstacles that engineers and laborers faced throughout their endeavor to make way for the Panama Canal. Torrents of rain, mudslides, and the terrain’s apparent resistance of such alterations engulfed equipment and thwarted months worth of progress. Despite these naturally occurring interferences, American equipment was fundamental to this astonishing…