Earthquake Reports Samples For Students

Japan, a well-developed country, which is geographically located in East Asia, between North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, is one of the most influential countries in Continent of Asia. Many Western Countries are well developed as well like The United States, Australia and other European Countries. In response to the question if Japan is a Western, well the answer is yes. Geographically, Japan is not even located near those of Western Countries, but if we are going to look at it based on how the country’s Economic Status, it is very Western-like country. That is because they consolidated ...

Earthquakes are vibrations of the Earth that are caused by the rupture and sudden movement of rocks along faults or breaks within the earth's crust. The elastic-rebound theory is a model used to explain the origin of earthquakes. It illustrates the buildup of elastic strain from stresses within the earth's crust and the abrupt release of energy along faults as the rocks return or rebound to their initial state (Ristau 249; Hamblin and Christiansen 510). The point within the Earth where the earthquake's energy is generated by the initial slippage or movement is called the focus. The epicenter is the ...

2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Introduction

The Tohoku earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean on 11th March, 2011 at a shallow depth of 32 kilometers is by far the largest earthquake ever recorded in the Japanese history and the fifth largest in the world. The earthquake was of 9.0 magnitude with its epicenter located 130 kilometers off Sendai, Honshu, the largest city in the Tohoku region. This earthquake set off devastating tsunami waves travelling like a jet plane at the speed of 700 kilometers an hour (Sorkhabi, 2011). The waves that reached the altitude of 40.5 meters travelled up to 10 ...

Theb Great 1964 Alaska Earthquarke

Introduction
The Prince William Sound region in Alaska went down in North American books of history on March 27, 1964 for experiencing a fatal earthquake. The magnitude of the earthquake rated on various scales, but the moment magnitude rated it at 9.2mm. The epicenter was located approximately 10km to the east of college Fiord, Valdez 90km to the west of the epicenter and anchorage 120 Km to the east as fig 1.1 shows. The bearing of the epicenter was Lat. 61.04N, Long. 147.73W with an estimated depth of 25KM (American Society of Civil Engineers & Schiff 1991). At the time ...

Understanding of Pompeii about Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79

When the Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it caught the population of Pompeii by surprise and utterly unprepared. Though we know now that all the signs of possible volcano were there in AD 79 but the residents of those times had no idea of the warning signs. We only get to know about the tyranny through the preserved letters from Younger Pliny who was an eye-witness to the disaster. Through him and his account we have gained insight of the reactions and effect on the people caught in the natural disaster.
Younger Pliny’s letters leave no shadow ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 in Richter scale, which lasted for the duration of 30 seconds, hit the Haiti region on January 12, 2010, and claimed an estimated 222,570 deaths. Haiti occupies the west part of the island of Hispaniola, one of the Greater Antilles islands, situated between the Puerto Rico and Cuba. The fault zone is called Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault, runs some 16 kms from Port-au-Prince, and at the intersection of the regions separating the Caribbean plate and North America plate.
According to the estimation of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), several million of earthquakes ...

Concrete is the most economical building material that can withstand high compressive strength, but cannot exhibit sufficient tensile forces. On the other hand, steel is considered a good building material in the context of tensile strength. It can withstand tensile strength much more than concrete. A properly designed concrete building structure hold increased strength and ductility even in areas prone to seismic conditions. The performance of buildings during an earthquake depends mainly on design instead of the material used in the process of construction. In conducting comparison between concrete and steel buildings, on can find benefits in both types of ...

FASB, in its subtopic 225-20, defines extraordinary as unusual and infrequent events. The underlying transaction must have a high degree of abnormality and must not be related to any ordinary or typical activities of the entity (Fasb.org). Secondly, the event must be infrequent, that is, an event that would not be reasonably expected to recur in the foreseeable future. FASB required that if an event meets the two condition, it should be reported as an extraordinary item. Thus, an entity should separate the income or loss from extraordinary items from those incomes and losses from ordinary operations of the ...

1. Natural disaster due to landforms and processes: Earthquake Magnitude 9.0
Location: Tohoku, Japan/March 11, 2011,
Geologic/geomorphic setting: Japan sits right where it is affected by four tectonic plates. The four plates are the Pacific Plate to the east, the Philippines Sea Microplate to the south, the Eurasian Plate to the west, and the North American Plate to the north.
Triggers: The earthquake hypocenter is where a slip occurs on a fault plane between the North American and Pacific Plates. The Earth Observatory Singapore explained that a megathrust occurred because the edges of the two plates stuck together causing ...

Reflection

Learning is a continuous process of observing, acquire, understanding things, even the tiny things that may not keep importance as such, but give you a great deal of learning. I, as all human beings, have been through intense learning process, aiming to develop skills and acquire a perfect skill set of a law student. To attain this perfection, I strive to learn all types of skills that suit my profession at the best. Learning does not always mean to be from the educational perspective, it also holds outside the school. As I chose my profession in law, and got to the edge, I ...

In the event of catastrophic and disastrous situations, every state has to develop a psychological support framework that helps its citizens in such trying times. Dependent on the disaster and the extent of damage it has done, the psychological support agency is formulated. Every government has a provision in its ministries that caters for emergency services. Countries like Japan and Indonesia have frequent national disasters. These countries have to formulate psychological support systems in such events to help control their citizens. Logically, the loss of lives, property, and displacement of settlements induces emotional disgrace and imbalance on the citizens. As a matter ...

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Petra in Jordan – a city of dreams

Abstract
Petra is a historical and archaeologicalcity which is located in the Ma’an region of Jordan. It is famous for its original and unique rock cut architecture and its water conduit system. Petra is also known as the Rose City due to the beautiful and original colour of its stone which is carved and hewn out of the rock.
This paper examines the historical aspect of the city in ...