6.7 Japan Earthquake Research Paper

Every time the earth shakes or I see bubbles in a glass of tap water the question comes to mind, why? Growing up in California earthquakes are a common occurrence, people from other states joke about California falling off into the ocean. This is something most of us Californians have accepted and continue to wait for the big one to happen. As with earthquakes, I never gave a second thought about our drinking water until now. I find I question the taste of it and make sure the filters are changed out on a regular basis. Now reading and listening to the news reports about what’s happening in different parts of the world regarding Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking and what it’s doing to the earth and ground water in those areas is disturbing.

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI . Severe shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in the city and lasted for several days. As a result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high in the lists of American urban disasters.

The Valdivia Earthquake occurred on the 22nd of May 1960 in Valdivia, Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded with a magnitude of 9.5. The earthquake resulted in many natural disasters not only in other parts of Chile but in other countries as well.

In 1906 the most deadliest earthquake in the world shook the grounds of San Francisco California The earthquake was caused by a slip that of the San Andreas fault, over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los The epicenter of this earthquake has moved around in the past 100 years, as advances in seismology has been made At first it was thought to have been Marin County but, most recently, in the Pacific Ocean about two miles west of San Francisco. The San Andreas Fault is on the boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate. During the earthquake, the ground west tended to move northward in the most extreme instance a 21 foot shift upward was measured.

This earthquake left 2 million homeless and $600 million in damage this earthquake led to a tsunami 15 hours later a 35 foot wave smashed into hilo (the big island of hawaii) hawaii is more than 6 thousand miles away from chile. 1,600 homes were destroyed and 185 and more are dead ore missing. 1 day later a deadly 18 foot wave smashed into japan. this earthquake lasted for 11 minutes. this earthquake was big enough it rang the world for days like a bell. The earthquake hit at 7:11 pm approximately 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Chile, parallel to the city of Valdivia. The shock is generally agreed to have had a magnitude of 9.5, though some studies alternately proposed that it may have been 9.4 or 9.6. A series of foreshocks the previous

When most people in California think about earthquake damage, they think of the damage to buildings and bridges. They never personalize the possibility of recovering from an earthquake; however, damage to your home as a result of an earthquake can be substantial. In fact, earthquakes are the expensive disasters in the state of California.

Earthquakes they are one of the most dangerous horrific disasters. Earthquakes cause destruction, chaos, deaths. The word earthquake comes from the American Spanish “trembling”. The devastation from the San Francisco earthquake will never be forgotten.

On the islands of Hawaii a 6.6 earthquake hit the island Honolulu. The lack of electricity gave them no communication with the mainland.

On Thursday the 28th of December, 1989, an earthquake hit Newcastle with a magnitude 5.6. at 10:27 am. It was one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160. The earthquake wasn't enormous, but Australia isn't considered to be seismically active and the city's buildings weren't designed to withstand a tremor of that magnitude.

Picture this, Mexico City, 1985, early in the morning, September 19 at 7:17 am. The ground started to shake and the Mexico City earthquake struck. Everybody was evacuated out of their house while most of Mexico City had collapsed. There was an earlier earthquake 4 months prior. The cause of this disaster is 2 tectonic plates colliding together. As a result, this caused a major natural disaster beyond belief. The effects of this natural disaster are people dying, buildings getting destroyed, and people have to spend a lot of money on a whole nother town.

In 1972, a devastating 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit in Managua, Nicaragua!!!! The earthquake killed about 10,000 people and leaves about 250,000 people in the streets homeless and hungry. At around the time 12:29 a.m. Saturday afternoon on the date December 23, 1972, an enormous and heartbreaking earthquake of magnitude 6.2 at a depth of about 5 kilometers had stuck underneath the middle of Managua, also known as the capital of Nicaragua. It happened only 60 minutes after the big shock, two decent sized aftershocks. One earthquakes had a magnitude of 5.0 and the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.2. The earthquake had left damage almost everywhere in Nicaragua and had a ton of deaths and injuries. About 5,000 of the 400,000 people living or just

This paper identifies and analyzes the major issues and consequences which the most recent earthquake in Japan brought to the business community. It presents some courses of actions and their justifications on how the company should proceed in its industry in order to eliminate or at least minimize the negative impacts of this earthquake on its normal business operations.

Though many places suffer from natural disasters, San Francisco is an evident and frequent victim of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur due to the friction of plate tectonics at transform boundaries. Tectonic plates regularly move in different directions, often grinding against each other. Occasionally, these plates snag on each other and become stuck. The pressure between these plates build until the energy stored is released in the form of an earthquake. San Francisco is on a major transform boundary-the San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is the transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate that cuts through the edge of California and, consequently, San Francisco. Furthermore, the San Andreas Fault has been heavily

Professor Matthew Feely is an adjunct professor at the Columbia business school and a former navy officer of the logistic center at the US Navy. In this lecture, he talks about the decision-making process as an officer in regard to the 2011 Japan’s earthquake.

Those left homeless after Wednesday's devastating earthquake in central Italy will be moved out of their tent camps by the end of September.