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Group Causes Three Earthquakes
601 wordsThe Hammer of Eden, written by Ken Follett, is a story of a hippie group in northern California, whose mountain home is in danger of becoming a lake. The group takes extraordinary measures to make sure this doesn't happen. Under the leadership of the main character Richard Granger, better known as Priest the group steals a seismic vibrator to cause earthquakes to make sure their valley doesn't become a lake. The story takes a step in the different direction than most Ken Follett books by not usi...
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California's Large Amount Of Fault
555 wordsStudying Seismic Activity California has 200 or more faults capable of producing large earthquakes. Some of the faults are hidden and some visible at the surface. The biggest concentration of faults are in the San Areas fault zone and the San Jacinto fault zone. Because of California's large amount of Fault lines the United States Geological Survey, the California division of mines and Geology, the California Institute and other agencies have developed the Southern California Earthquake Center a...
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Weeks For The Aid Agencies
289 wordsSean Palleschi Geology 101 News Report 11 April 16, 2002 Afghanistan Rattled Again by Qaukes, Two Dead Two people were killed and others were injured in northern district of Nahrin on Sunday in Afghanistan because of numerous tremors and earthquakes. Unfortunately, over the last three weeks, hundreds of people have died due to these horrific earthquakes. 'Pakistani seismologists said the Sunday quake measured 5.3 on the Richter Scale, only a little less intense that the series of shallow quakes ...
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Slip Faults
399 wordsEarthquakes are one of the most damaging natural disasters known to man. They have been known to destroy entire cities in their total time of 2 to 3 minutes. Most people do not know that earthquakes are common through out the entire world; they are just more powerful in places such as California and small countries in South America. The definition of earthquake is " a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slo...
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Cause Earthquakes
5,728 wordsAn Earthquake is a sudden tremor or movement of the earth's crust, which originates naturally at or below the surface. The word natural is important here, since it excludes shock waves caused by French nuclear tests, man made explosions and landslides caused by building work. THERE ARE TWO MAIN CAUSES Firstly, they can be linked to explosive volcanic eruptions; they are in fact very common in areas of volcanic activity where they either proceed or accompany eruptions. Secondly, they can be trigg...
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Serious Damage
457 wordsLEBANON, Oh. - A 7.0 earthquake shook millions awake early Saturday in the tri-state region and derailed an Amtrak train. The quake jolted residents out of their beds and shook buildings as far away as Pittsburgh. Over 90,000 people lost their power, and a highway bridge was cracked in downtown Cincinnati. This 2: 46 a.m. earthquake was more than the ordinary and caused a little more than incidental damage". Did you ever play a pinball machine and see the ball get stuck in there and go bam-bam-b...
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Study Of The Past
276 wordsFuture Shocks Future Shocks showed how scientists can better predict where earthquakes will occur by studying the past. Researchers are now able to pinpoint the date, hour and size of an earthquake from the past, by studying ghost forests. The researchers compare the rings of the trees of known age that have survived earthquakes, with the rings of the ghost forest trees. The study of the past is very important because scientists still cannot predict earthquakes. By gathering evidence from the pa...
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Successful Earthquake Prediction
1,066 wordsEarthquakes have plagued our lives for as long as people have inhabited the earth. These dangerous acts of the earth have been the cause of many deaths in the past century. So what can be done about these violent eruptions that take place nearly with out warning Predicting an earthquake until now has almost been technologically impossible. With improvements in technology, lives have been saved and many more will. All that remains is to research what takes place before, during, and after an earth...
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Violent Shock Of An Earthquake
1,221 wordsWhen one thinks of earthquakes, the Mississippi river valley (MRV), does not frequently come to mind. One usually thinks of one of California's numerous faults or somewhere in Alaska. However, little known to the general public, there were two massive earthquakes in the MRV, which rank among the top three in the contiguous United States and in the top ten for the entire United States (http: // neic. cr. usgs. gov / news /enlists / bigten. lis). Starting in the early morning hours of December 16,...
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Northwest Coast At The Cascadia Subduction Zone
1,005 wordsCascadia Subduction Zone Quake (aka "The Big One") Having been a resident of the Northwest for my entire life, I have been quite sheltered from the real threat that earthquakes present. After all, large earthquakes only happen in places like California or Japan, not in the Northwest right? Despite the fact that I now know this to be an incorrect statement; this was my impression before discussing the topic with my brother. He suggested that I research the "Big" earthquake that was due to hit off...
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Damage And Scale Of An Earthquake
2,326 wordsContents Page. Page 1 - Introduction to report and Afghanistan Earthquake. Page 2 - Afghanistan Earthquake Page 3 - Afghanistan and beginning of Colombian Earthquake Page 4 - Colombian Earthquake Page 5 - Colombian Earthquake and Start of comparison Page 6 - comparison and Preparation Page 7 - Preparation and explanation of Richter Scale. 15/5/02 Think We " re Badly Off? Think again, recently hit Afghanistan shows us what really can happen. Afghanistan, particularly around Nahrin, was hit on the...
