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Area of the Long Point Fault The Long Point Fault is located in Harris County, which covers 83,450 square miles located with in Houston, Teaxas City Limits. Research specifies that there are three sections of the Long Point fault that appear to be active; some sections of the Long Point fault have averaged more than 2 cm per year of vertical offset over the last 20 years. Evidence of the faults concludes it is a natural fault. The reason for activity is not caused by man, even though man’s activities

bureaucrats and salarymen — that seems to be lacking. "The sad fact about many young people today is that if there's one person who leads the way, they will follow and work hard," says Ayumi Yamamoto, a Tokyo graduate student who has volunteered to help earthquake survivors as part of a newly formed group called Tohoku Rising (Tohoku is the northeastern region that bore the brunt of the disaster). "But right now

best be defined as a 'situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, property or the environment.' The overall impact of earthquakes as a natural hazard varies greatly from one place and timeframe to another. As do the types of hazards, which are categorised into primary and secondary. Primary hazards are created by the direct seismic energy of an earthquake; this could include liquefaction, slope failure and tsunamis. These primary hazards can in turn trigger secondary hazards such as floods

Marmara Region of Istanbul has a history of catastrophic earthquakes such as the ones that struck on 17 August 1999 (Mw=7.4) and12 November 1999 (Mw=7.2). This led to the introduction of Istanbul Earthquake Rapid Response and Early Warning System (IERREWS) as a preventive measure for future earthquakes occurrences. This system consists of a dense network of 100 strong motion recorders located in the metropolitan area of Istanbul, 10 near the Great Marmara Fault and 40 more located at important structures

Natural disaster such as earthquakes can often come and go in unexpected time. Earthquakes can be dangerous depends on how hard the magnitude of the earthquake hits. The problem is earthquakes can damages and kills many people and there’s no way out of it but human can learn how to protect themselves from it. For example, human can move to other places, countries that have a lower chance of earthquake or stay away from buildings and houses when earthquakes happen. Earthquakes is caused by the movement

Introduction Large magnitude earthquakes occur on plate boundaries and they can produce hazards such as movement along faults, landslides, and tsunamis if the earthquake occurs close to a large enough body of water. In North America, the western coast is an active margin, meaning that it is home to earthquakes and volcanoes, a physical manifestation of the plate activity occuring. On November 3rd, 2002, in South-Central Alaska, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake ruptured along three faults; the Susinta Glacier

Professor Shawn Smith English 363 June 8, 2016 The Biggest Earthquake Ever May 22nd, 1960 this date will forever be in the records of history as one of the days when humanity has witness the power of nature like never before and until today there hasn 't been anything similar to this cataclysm. Earthquakes are known around the world for their destruction and its killing path that in the most powerful situations they can provoke. An earthquake happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past

14:46 JTS time, a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred just off the east coast of Japan, across from Sendai. The epicentre of the earthquake was at 38.322°N 142.369°E and caused a massive tsunami to form. Now we’ll go over to our very own reporter, Willow Jones, who will be explaining tsunamis for you. Willow: Live footage from studio. Hello, I’m Willow and I will be your reporter for tonight. Now, over 90% of tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes like this one. The other causes of tsunamis

Throughout the course of the earth, there have been many impressive geologic events that have taken place. Natural disasters ranging from volcanic eruptions, to massive earthquakes, to avalanches make their marks known after they strike. The natural disaster that I want to focus on specifically in this paper, however, is tsunami’s. Though Tsunami’s are arguably the most deadly natural disaster, they are also one of the most amazing geologic events to witness. Over the course of this paper, I will

enabling researchers to recreate the most destructive natural forces on Earth by shaking and rocking full-sized structures. [1] In one experiment, Professor Tara Hutchinson tests steel beam resilience on the apparatus, on San Diego’s outer limits. The earthquake machine utilizes strain gauges and accelerometers numbering in the hundreds to record the many forces that artificially induced seismic activity places on the structure. New building codes and retrofitting practices have emerged due to the successes