Inc1 Science Rint Task 1

The San Andreas fault line has caused constant development nightmares for large urban areas such as San Francisco as well as the other cities built on top of it. Fault lines are one of the side effects of the earth’s tectonic plates shifting that can result in devastating earthquakes. Some of the most devastating earthquakes in our modern era have occurred along the San Andreas fault line due to a dense population. The most notable and destructive earthquake on the San Andreas fault line occurred in San Francisco in 1906. The reason this earthquake was so deadly was because of its magnitude and the city’s poor planning. This earthquake was a wakeup call for San Francisco and force the city to revolutionize its knowledge on earthquakes and how to protect their city. Today San Francisco is one of the most well prepared cities for an earthquake and has made great discoveries in earthquake safety measures. The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco has drastically changed how the city has developed its zoning and building code policies, and its earthquake research.

The three faults being considered are thought to have influenced the character of some 120,000 square miles. The Big Pine, Garlock, and San Andreas faults are all mutually active, deep, long, and steep and noted as being conjugate shears. In concert, the faults have defined a primary strain pattern of relative east-west extension and north-south shortening of the area of 120,000 square miles. The large region is noted for its deformity, with the source of this being a northeast-southwest counterclockwise compressive couple. The compressive couple was potentially supported through drag as a result of the deep-seated movement of rock material from the Pacific region (Hill & Dibblee, 1953). The interaction of the faults in the San Andreas region since the Jurassic period have served to shape and contour the present geology of the land, while a study of the paleontology of the region likewise requires such knowledge to effectively determine conditions at any given point in time.

Mrs. Collins addressed the 6th grade Science class with the most uplifting positive attitude that anyone could have. Every day she came to class she always had candy and snacks sitting on her desk for students to enjoy when they were on their best behavior or if students participated. Everyone insisted on behaving and participating just so they could get a treat. One day Mrs. Collins called on a young boy whose name is Mark, but everyone else addressed him by meanie mark. Mrs. Collins asked Mark if he would like to come to the front of the class and demonstrate the Mentos and coca cola project. Mark did not say anything the first time. The second time she asked he murmured something, no one could not hear what he said. He set in the far back left corner of the classroom by himself. No one wanted to sit next to Mark for he intimidated everyone that he came across. He always wore black and he never spoke to anyone no matter how nice they were and he always had his head down. Mark was a loner. Furthermore

Despite decades of research and the use of modern technology, scientists are still not able to detect in time an imminent earthquake. Even though seismologists mostly know where the faults are and are able to closely monitor the rate of activity on them ranging from a scale of a year to a decade and even a century, a solid short-term day to month forecasting in order to identify the places at risk, still is an insoluble problem. Although this may be true, some scientists in diverse fields choose to follow a different and a rather controversial approach on the subject by studying the unusual animal

On August 24, 2014 a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in and around the city of Napa, CA. The earthquake killed one person and injured over 150 people. And these people were treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa [1]. More and more earthquakes occurred on this earth. So this grasps people’s attention.

In recorded history, there have been 151 earthquakes in Nevada that were a magnitude of 3.5 or higher. As previously mentioned, the mountain ranges of Nevada are typically bound on one side or the other by a fault. There are quaternary faults that range in ages from less than 150 years to around 1.8 million years in existence. The property damage in Nevada from earthquakes was .2 million dollars between 1196 and 2014 based on information from department of energy for the state. As we studied in our textbook, earthquakes can by a number of things, such as shifting faults, or volcanic

Alfred Wegener was a meteorologist and astronomer. He was the first scientist to introduce the theory of the continental drift. Wegener theorized that at one time the continents were one large landmass or Pangaea that had drifted apart. His ideas were initially rejected by other scientists. It was not until long after Wegener’s death that proof was obtained and his theory verified.

In 2009, six seismologists and a civil servant failed to predict an earthquake that killed 308 people in Italy and were charged with manslaughter. They were sentenced to six years in prison. Only a century ago though, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener, was ridiculed for his idea about continental drift. To try to prove his idea, he cut out the continents from a map, stretched them, and fit them together. He also used the evidence that animals and plants on opposite sides of the world look very similar as well as the fact that layered geological formations on one side of an ocean look as though they could go together. For years after he presented this idea, it was attacked and not believed. In the mid-1960 the theory was finally accepted but Wegener did not live to see it.

The novel, A Crack in The Edge of The World, by Simon Winchester is a book that educates readers on plate tectonics and how the pushing and pulling of those plates has shaped, and in some cases destroyed, various pieces of the American west. Winchester's focus is on the earthquake that devastated San Francisco in 1906, but he also incorporates his travels across the North American plate and describes how nature and society has fused as one. His book explores constant shifts in time and the reader may find difficulty fully delighting in the never-ending stream of words. Nevertheless, the lengthy descriptions, sentences the size of paragraphs, and an excessive use of parentheses combine to paint a vivid image of the impact the earthquake had

Alfred Wegener had a big role in the Continental Drift. Alfred Wegener is an explorer, German polar researcher, geophysicist, and a meteorologist. His theory on the Continental drift is that once all the continents were combined together called Pangaea. To help support his theory is the distribution of fossils, distribution of rocks and structures, and tropics.

This week we primarily studied the geoscientists rather than geoscience. To be a productive and successful geoscientists it important to think with a certain mindset. For example, when trying to analyze distribution of earthquake energy waves you must use spatial thinking. As learned, spatial thinking helps interpret and identify places, size, and trends of geographic connections. Developing this abstract way of thinking about the world around us helps scientists develop theories and create discoveries. Geoscientist also have a more realist view of the history of the earth. In order to gain a full understanding of the earth it is important to remember that its history goes far beyond mankind. The earth has experienced millions of years of evolution

According to a study conducted Christian D. Klose of Columbia University 's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, the quake was triggered by changes in tectonic forces caused by 200 years of underground coal mining. But even more significant was groundwater pumping needed to keep the mines from flooding. For each ton of coal produced, 4.3 times more water was extracted. The mass removal of coal and water caused an “unload” of the entire continental crust. In the case of mining, an unload is the reduction of weight in a certain area, e.g., black coal and water in a colliery. If it has enough time, the tectonic plate reacts to this unload by forming a small deformation. If it does not have enough time because the rate of mass removal is too high, a fault zone can be reactivated

Did you know that earthquakes can build mountains and volcanoes,destroy houses, lose of jobs, and it have even killed people.An earthquake is when two contients hit together really hard to form a volcanoes or mountains. Gondwana was from 250 years ago. In the blog, there was blue smoke everywhere and helicopters clatter the sky. In the news report, the Loma Prieta Earthquake, killed people and take lots of people out of their houses.In the insurance claim, it would cost over milloins of dollars to fix your home.Earthqukes have an effect on people, earth, and properties.

Developed from 1950’s to 1970’s, plate tectonics is the modern version of continental drift .This theory was first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. Plate tectonics is the unifying theory of geology that explains the structure of the earth’s crust.

It seems that the earthquake brought a trail of things that happen later. So we can learn for this that physical geography and human geography are connected and affects each other almost every time.