Absolute magnitude

Introduction There are about 15 tectonic or lithospheric plates on the earth’s surface, which have different size and move relative to one another over the earth’s surface. As a result, the crust around the boundaries of the plates bends or deforms, accumulating strong energy during these processes (Briggs, 2006). When the strain becomes too great to bear by the crust in the future, the crust will snap or slip causing earthquakes. As a type of geophysical hazard, earthquakes are inevitable for

To support the theory of continental drift is through topography, surveying the floors of oceans, charts of rock magnetism, and statistics on rock ages (Trefil & Hazen, 2010). At one time scientist believed that the deep ocean floors were flat; accumulating the sediment that progressively wore away from the prehistoric landmasses (Trefil & Hazen, 2010). However, they discovered steep-walled valleys and elevated highlands. This was evidences that just as the continents are transformed and are active

Axia College Material Appendix F Week Three Lab Report: Earthquakes Answer the lab questions for this week and summarize the lab experience using this form. |Full Name | | |Date | | Carefully read pages 156-170 of Geoscience Laboratory. Complete this week’s lab by filling in your responses to the questions from Geoscience Laboratory. Select answers are

website searching for earthquakes that have occurred around the world with a magnitude greater than two point five in the last seven days. Responses to the questions of the lab, based on the information obtained from the USGS website at 10:23 AM on Friday, January 3, 2014, are the basis of this paper. Greater Than Six Point Zero The lab asks if there were any earthquakes in the past week that registered a magnitude of over six point zero. One earthquake did register over six point zero. This

year, but only several hundred earthquakes actually cause any damage. According to the Exploratorium Museum’s Website, the toll that earths have on the population and infrastructures vary from place to place, even if the earthquakes are similar in magnitude. It all narrows down to how the area’s buildings and infrastructures were built. The damages that people usually associate with earthquakes are actually created by humans. Thus, the design, construction and

activity. When this happens, those seismic waves hit the Earth’s surface causing the ground to shake in a violent manner. When the waves actually hit the earth, devices called seismometers, which are strategically placed across the world, detect the magnitude of the earthquakes force. All of these elements play an important role in our current understanding of earthquakes. Earthquake Forces When the tectonic plates slip and the energy is released at the earth’s surface, endless effects occur as a result

Company (ABC), This Week, displayed a live segment on April 18, 2016, that presented a breakdown on the recent earthquakes that hit Equator and Japan in the past few days. Equator was granted a closer look seeing as it was challenged by an severe 7.8 magnitude earthquake which left over three hundred and fifty dead and thousands more wounded from it massive destruction which has a tendency to rise even further with the passage of time. Another similar incident occurred twice in Japan which left it even

As the Building a Boise Bridge project continues, I have really enjoyed getting to know the teachers and students working on this project a little more! This project takes place at Taft Elementary School, which is a public school in the Boise School District. Unfortunately, with the session on Thursday the 5th being moved up to Monday the 2nd, I was unable to attend that week. But I was able to attend the last session, and enjoyed catching up with the students and teachers involved with this project

Shake Maps Shake Maps provide an alternative way to investigate a seismic event, with an emphasis more on surface strength and its impacts, than in ground- motion modelling. Shake maps rely on the use of the Modern Mercalli Intensity scale (referred to in the rest of this literature review as the MMI scale) to represent the strength an earthquake. MMI is a scale which is used to show the strength of an earthquake, with regards to the damage it causes. This is an area of investigation for the 1906

Claim The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) gets multiple small earthquakes a year, it being odd because it is in the middle of North America, rather than the edge like California. Researchers tried to find an explanation to why earthquakes are occurring in an uncommon area and what the cause is. Data The NMSZ is in the center of the continent and this caused scientists to figure out what happened to cause the land to move. Furthermore, the area was a difficult place to study since it barely had large