Earthquakes
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of Tectonic Plates beneath the Earth's surface. It will result in the vibration of Earth's surface depending on the intensity, causing damage.
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This is a complex question and is a subject of continuing ongoing scientific research. A summary of some of the hypothesised...
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The death toll from the March 11, 2011 Sendai earthquakes and tsunami continued to climb weeks after the initial destruction due...
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Earthquakes are tremors or vibrations in the Earth's crust that are caused by the build up or accumulation of pressure (more...
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"Plate tectonics" is what causes an earthquake.An answer for young students: Earthquakes are shakes and jiggles in the huge...
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Wild animals have evolved to respond to their natural environment, coping with seasonal flooding, wild fires, volcanoes and...
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Release of pressure of which the plates start to move an push an slide next to each other
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earthquakes cause deaths every year. since 2000 just in the united states 40,181 people have died an that is to recent 2011....
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Plutonic earthquakes-if the earthquake occur deep within the subduction zone of colliding plates. Origin of the initial shock...
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Lots of ways. One example is that scientists have shot semantic waves through Earths layers to find out how much velocity each...
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We cannot feel some earthquakes because they are too deep in the ground. About one million earthquakes occur every year But, we...
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It's buildings aren't made of strong enough materials to withstand it. They also don't have the funds to build them proper enough...
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An earthquake in an unpopulated area would cause little damage- in a major city, a great deal of damage.
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NoThere are two main causes of earthquakes.Firstly, they can be linked to explosive volcanic eruptions; they are in fact very...
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No. They occur at convergent boundaries.
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Typically, no. Spring clocks can be affects by the shaking, if it is severe enough. If the clock falls and breaks, then yes, it...
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perhaps because they are lighter.
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3.2 on the Richter scale is relatively small quake often not even felt but just recorded by instruments. See ...
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The Richter Scale.
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A natural disaster can not be prevented, but there are things you can do to prepare for a natural disaster such as a earthquake.
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This is known as a transverse wave.
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because of the folded deformation
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Using triangulation.Triangulation is a way to find an unknown distance or location using two known locations.Simple geometry will...
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there are lots but we feel about 5 of them it depends how big the quake adtually is
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Approximately £2,000,000,000 the money was used to repair Pakistan
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Because it's known as 'The Pacific ring of fire' simply because volcanoes have erupted around every area included in the ring....
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in Pakistan 73,276 died.death in the muzaffarabad district was 33,724.17,000 children were killed14 people died in...
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There are two instruments, which are basically the same thing. There is the seismograph , and a more specific tool measures the...
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Shaky Shaking Violent Vibrations Forceful
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The Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960 The Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Valdivia) of...
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a giant catfish japan resting on its back and a giant man holds a rock on the catfishes head to keep it from moving when the man...
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The Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960 The Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Valdivia) of...
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To locate an earthquake, you need the data from at least three seismometer stations. The process is known as triangulation and is...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the March 11 magnitude 9.0 (originally reported as 8.9) earthquake was the "biggest quake...
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Seismologists prefer to attempt to quantify the risk posed by a particular fault zone rather than state exactly when an...
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Because of the San Juan fault
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Before an eruption occurs molten rocks rise up into chambers near the surface, causing the ground surface to bulge slightly.This...
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Typically mafic (iron and magnesium rich) minerals such as pyroxenes (either augite and orthopyroxene) and olivine along with...
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In a sense it is active. There are many warm water springs in and around the crater. As to whether it will become more active,...
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Earthquakes can occur along subduction zones. These earthquakes can trigger tsunamis.
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depends on how much adele runs each year :D
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Essentially, dilation is the expansion of a rock (or rocks). The four primary stages of dilation in regard to an earthquake are...
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only geologic
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The lithosphere consists of earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle and is divided into mobile sections called tectonic...
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They are both words that re used to describe the origin of an earthquake. More specifically the focus is the point within the...
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when a rock is stressed it begins to expand; to dilate.
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a seismograph
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No hurricanes are caused by instability over warm oceans creating thunderstorms which start to spin and join together.
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It result from the moving of rock deep under the ground. This movement is caused by the rubbing of one plate into another. The...
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Stricter building codes preventing structures from collapsing and injuring the people on/in those structures. (houses, bridges...
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Because of faults lines and tectonic plates
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Unlike an earthquake, scientists can track and predict a hurricane as it begins to develop as they take days to form....
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The most famous fault line is the San Andreas fault, and it is significant because it runs through a heavily populated area (Los...
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all is that i know is that it starts with a p
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Take a look at the USGS Seismicity Maps for worldwide earthquake activity. A large full-scale detailed map is available. USGS...
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EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE' TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY 1) Almost everyone who simply 'ducks and covers'...
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Surface waves.
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it reveals about how many times earthquakes occur in the Philippines
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An S- Wave
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Seismologists prefer to attempt to quantify the risk posed by a particular fault zone rather than state exactly when an...
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no. earthquakes are set off by sudden movements in the earths crust
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Depends on the type of tectonic plate. If it is two continental plates, usually a mountain range will be formed and the plates...
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Diseases and sudden . People were also left homeless, many and injuries. People's lifelines, like water, gas and electricity were...
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The forces caused by movement of the plates create stress on the rock.....
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It result from the moving of rock deep under the ground. This movement is caused by the rubbing of one plate into another. The...
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The top of the building will be more affected. Because theres nothing to support it up top, all it depends on to stand up is the...
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Large earthquakes often occur far from the most densely populated regions of the Earth. But they can still kill many people. When...
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Tectonic plates are segments of the Earth's lithosphere, the hard rocky outer shell composed of the crust and the uppermost...
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Three earthquakes in Pennsylvania with greater than 3.0 magnitude in last 30 years. 1998-09-25 - M 5.2 1994-01-16 - M 4.6...
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The prime minister estimated that 316,000 had been killed on the 1 year anniversary of the earthquake. International sources...
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There is no way of knowing that. Earthquakes have been occurring on earth for billions of years probably since before there was...
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.The test has a mean, or average, standard score of 100 and a standard deviation of 16 (subtests have a mean of 50 and a standard...
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seismograph
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It is inevitable and now merely a waiting game. Christchurch is a pre-warning to the wider Wellington region that something is...
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A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone with winds of at least 74 mph. Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. An earthquake is...
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they occur over plate boundaries when 2 plates clash and one sinks and one rises
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Because California is right smack dab in the middle of the San Andreas fault
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The three main types of stress in a rock are shearing, tension, and compression.
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An earthquake is the shaking of the ground usually triggered by the movement of sections of the earth's crust called tectonic...
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I'm pretty sure they don't, but I think lightning and thunder does.
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earthquake magnitude is exponential, not linear. for every increase of 1 on the Richter scale, an earthquake releases 10 times as...
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Fluid transport happens in the xylem tissue of the plant. There are believed to be two mechanisms which transport water and...
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Previous earthquake occurrences, nearness to active volcanoes, and location in the area where crustal [or lithospheric or...
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Japan has a lot of earthquakes during the year. The smaller ones cause small damage. Ones near Japan, such as the one that...
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4 September 2010. My mother died in the earthquake and i lost my house. :'( uhmm no one died in the September 4th earthquake
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RICHTER SCALE The Richter scale (known as the local magnitude scale to seismologists) was originally developed to measure small...
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10,7. 190,650bc
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A Primary Effect is basically an disaster like earthquakes what happens in the area of the earthquake e.g buildings f-d damaged...
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Japan is under three tectonic plates
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Tectonic plates colide causing the earth to shake.
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Yes. As a matter of fact, all land masses on earth are located on tectonic plates. So Pennsylvania is riding on the same tectonic...
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The movement in magma into the Magma Chamber and through the volcano's pipe triggers these quakes. All these data help geologists...
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