San Andreas Fault

The Hayward Fault The Hayward Fault stretching beneath a few major cities in California has not shifted too far in the last 150 years, a shift that used to be evident on a street corner of Rose and Prospect Streets. A no longer aligned curb was a perfect reminder of the forces working beneath the citizens of Hayward (although the city decided to realign it once more), and the forces that could soon act again. This fault was found to produce a large earthquake roughly every 160 years, give or take

Jack London and Mark Twain both wrote accounts about the earthquake in San Francisco. Even though they wrote about the same topic, each one has a different purpose to their essay. London is focused on the destruction caused by the earthquake, and the question of whether it was man who really destroyed the city or nature who destroyed it. On the other hand, Twain is focused on and judging the actions of people during the earthquake. Each one uses unique stylistic elements to portray their own

The Market Street Railway, Sutter Street Railroad, and the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway merged in 1902 to become the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR). The URR was created by the aggressive capitalist consolidator and modernizer named Patrick Calhoun. An early project was to make uniform the rolling stock and track gauges, which led to the abandonment of the last four miles of horsecars that had been the backbone of transportation just a generation earlier. By this stage, the company

I.) May 18th 1980 in the state of Washington the earth was changing and disaster became inevitable. II.) According to Govt Geo. Studies a 5.1 Magnitude earthquake shook the landscape in Washington, causing Mount St. Helens to crumble and slabs of rock to collapse, which led to the infamous 1980 MT St. Helens eruption. A volcano once thought to be asleep and inactive had proved seismologists wrong. III.) I become interested in volcanoes and other natural disasters when I was working at a BSA summer

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. With more than 2,000 faults throughout California, an earthquake can happen at any time throughout the year. The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast estimates that within the next 30 years, the likelihood of a 6.7M or greater earthquake in California is 99.7%. Will

My house is in San Jose, but is not located near a fault line, nor is also not on top of one. My house is four miles away from the Hayward fault, and about six miles away from the Calaveras fault. The Hayward fault has an twenty-seven percent, well the Calaveras fault has a eleven percent probability of having an earthquake in the next thirty years. For both the Hayward, and Calaveras fault earthquake will cause the MMI of seven, where I live causing intense shaking. The liquefaction susceptibility

400-700 People died in the 1906 San-Francisco earthquake. The mass destruction, was unpreventable, and was also chaotic, obliterating over 25,000 buildings. Emma Burke, and Fred Hewitt were the author’s of one of the few Eyewitness novels that wrote about the quake. Would you like to be in that town? Would you like to have your house get destroyed? I hope not! 400-700 People died in the 1906 San-Francisco earthquake. The mass destruction, was unpreventable, and was also chaotic, obliterating over

killing a total of 185 people. Earthquakes are known as one of the most dangerous natural disasters. This horrific event happened October 15th, 2013. The earthquake hit hardest in the central Philippines, it was reported to be caused by the East Bohol Fault. People act in a response to a natural disaster by gathering resources, spreading word, and government aid. People respond to a natural disaster by gathering resources. There has been so much change by just getting people household materials. We have

toll continues to rise, while over 6700 people are injured. In Iraq, several people were killed and over 500 injured. The epicenter of the earthquake was registered 27 miles from Halabja in eastern Iraq. According to seismologists, Iran sits on a fault line that is prone to quakes. Kokab Fard, a 49-year-old housewife in Sarpol-e-Zahab, told The Associated Press she could only flee empty-handed when her apartment complex collapsed. "Immediately after I managed to get out,

The highest point on earth is the peak of Mt. Everest. Rising 29,035 feet above sea level, it is still constantly growing. This snow-covered mountain was formed when the tectonic plates pushed together, as they still are today. Therefore Mt. Everest has had many earthquakes, but on April 27, 2015 one earthquake changed everything. On this day Mt. Everest had an earthquake that was rated a 7.8 in magnitude. It flattened towns, knocked over buildings and created an avalanche that killed over