Wind shear

Case Analysis 1. What are the facts in the case? John is the chief seismologist at one of the leading research facilities in North America who holds a P.H.D from one of the most prestigious university in the country. John has developed a method for predicting earthquake with 80% accuracy rate. From his investigation, he discovered that there is a 80% chance that an earthquake will occur with a magnitude of 7.3 in one of the four fault lines in southern california within two days. While three of the four faults are less populated, the fourth one is San Andreas. It is populated city and an earthquake there could be catastrophic. 2. What is the issue/dilemma? The issue is how John should proceed with reporting his finding. At a first glance, one can conclude that it is logical to just report the finding to the media so that the public will be informed. However, there are a couple of things at stakes here. If it turns out that he was wrong and the earthquake does not hit any of the four fault line, it may be problematic for receiving funding in the future. Also, if he is wrong, his career is at stake. He is the one that developed this new process, he will be discredited if he is wrong. 3. What are the John’s options? After finding his result, John has a few options available to him on how he should proceed next. John can either report his findings to the people or the media so that they can prepare or he may not report because it is a career risk that he can not make. 4.…

Is the Hayward Fault line moving the earth’s surface, and if so where is the evidence to prove it? There are various methods to prove that the Hayward Fault is creeping, and the evidence is viewable such as offset curbsides, building that are being torn apart, and cracks in the earth’s surface. The Hayward Fault is a strike-slip fault meaning it moves up, and down, thus giving us multiple locations in which the surface is affected. There are five different locations that I chose on the Hayward…

The articles "The Evil Swinging Darkness" and "The Storm Chasers First-Hand Account of the Joplin Tornado" is about how a deadly tornado struck the town of Joplin. Multiple tornado sirens sounded at different times showing that this was no little tornado this was the mother tornado. Thousands of people rush to the nearest shelter where very few made it. That day more than 1000 people were injured as well as leaving 158 dead. This tornado was extremely deadly but even those who survived were in…

they existed. Suddenly, tornadoes started tearing apart homes and killing people. Then, we needed to know “What is a tornado?” Did you know that one of the biggest tornadoes was 2 miles long? In this article you will learn how tornadoes form, how we can be safe and what tornadoes are the deadliest. Facts And How Tornadoes Form So, what is a tornado and when does it happen? Well, tornadoes happen when hot air collides with cold air. The cold air falls to the bottom, and then the hot air is…

Did you that the United States have over 1200 tornados a year. Now I’m am going to teach you about tornados. Tornados make by warm air and cold air colliding this is because. The warm air is higher than the cold air and they are also moving different directions so that makes a tornado. In addition most tornadoes happen east of the rocky mountains and west of the gulf of mexico because all the hot air is coming from the gulf of mexico an the rocky mountains produces all the cold air and when they…

very nervous. The tornado was expected very soon. Leo and Karli drove to where the tornado is expected to start. On the way there it became very windy. But they had to keep driving. Leo and Karli started talking and then both of them heard whooshing winds. So they sped up the car and when they finally arrived they had no extra time because of the rain and wind. So Karli put on her shoes as fast as she could “Karli, it's time for you to save this town for the second time.” Right once Karli and…

Wind strength of Gothic Cathedrals - Coccia, Simona - Engineering Failure Analysis. Sep 2015, Vol. 55, p1-25. 25p. Abstract: The research investigates the ancient Gothic cathedral and the formulation of its structure regarding the wind resistance. Experiments on the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens,as it is one of the most significant examples of the Gothic Cathedrals, concluded that the skeleton or the design of this cathedral and all the cathedrals, in general, is showing that it was…

Introduction A flam e tornado is pretty self-explanatory, it is just a flame being spun in circles{explain how fire tornados are created and what they are, maybe talk about them in the real world}The fire tornado works by “the rotating screen [giving] the air molecules an initial spin (called angular momentum or rotational momentum). The rotating air molecules collide with the hot air rising from the fire and the flame twists into the shape of a tornado” (“Steve”). Fire tornados actually happen…

It was demonstrated that the use of compressed and stabilized earth blocks (CSEBs) formed in a press from a soil mix with a small amount of cement (6%) as stabilizer ensures a higher structural resistance to extreme wind loads than traditional earthen blocks without cement. This result was mainly due to higher mechanical properties of stabilized blocks in terms of compressive strength and tensile strength. The limit of 6% wt cement was selected after noticing that increasing cement content to 9…

Blood Flow as a Casson Fluid 1 THE PROBELM This problem was chosen from Problems for Biomedical Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena section 8, because of my interest in biomedical engineering. How the body works on the most fundamental chemical and physical levels is something that has always fascinated me. This problem, and others in the section on blood flow, offered me a chance to delve deeper into how the body works as well as transport phenomena. The problem gave us a solved velocity…