Essays on Earthquake

Death Valley, one of the hottest places in the world, is the centerpiece of the Death Valley National Park in Eastern California. Death Valley was formed as a part of a graben. To the east of the San Andreas Fault System (SAFS) lies a tectonically…

Introduction So far this century there have been more than 1,100 fatal earthquake causing a total loss of life exceeding 1. 53 million people. Reducing the loss of life is the primary protection strategies, and yet the processes that contribute to death tolls and the…

An earthquake is when two parts of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip past one is called fault or fault plane. The spot below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly…

Economic is the main factor that drives a country forward because it generates income and shows stability of the country which helps every business run smoothly and draws interests of investors. However, it is hard to control the stability when natural disaster strikes because many…

Passive Seismic Control Systems are called passive because they do not require any additional energy source to operate and are activated only by the earthquake input motion. They are divided into three different types: Energy Dissipation Devices Base Isolation Devices Dynamic Oscillators Passive control of…

If two pieces of Earth, all of the sudden slip past each other then an Earthquake will follow. Faults, fault lines or fault planes are surfaces that slip past each other. An earthquake starts in the hypocenter, which is located beneath Earth’s surface. The epicenter…

TOHOKU, Japan, Friday, Mar. 11 -Yesterday, a 9.0 magnitude Earthquake struck the east of Tohoku, Japan. The epicentre of the earthquake was located approximately 72 km east of Tohoku (38.3 degrees North latitude and 142.4 degrees East longitude), or 130 km east of Sendai as…

Earthquake predictions effect many a people around the world and have different outcomes. Two specific cases of earthquake predictions will be discussed and compared to each other to see how the public was affected over all. One case is the Parkfield Earthquake in California and…

Earthquakes can devastate a city. They are a force of nature that can destroy any structure. The earth is made up of moving tectonic plates. Earthquakes occur along or near tectonic plate boundaries where two plates meet. These plates are solid rock and sit on…