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Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan 2011

This research paper relates many of the problems encountered by Japanese officials who are addressing reconstruction after the de...

The Japan Earthquake - Disaster Response Review

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at disaster response tactics. The 2011 Japan earthquake is examined as an example. Pape...

Use of Social Media during Disasters: Article Critique

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of an article focused on the use of social media and the earthquake in Japan in 2011. This pap...

The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

800 rooms and rising an "impressive" seven stories.6 The hotel featured a "central grand court surrounded by tier after tier of co...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

The Sichuan Earthquake and The Economy

the massive quake, more than 34,000 were declared dead and some of those were rescue workers (Ho, 2008). That was an early count. ...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

Senegal's Offer to Help Haiti

It was in January of 2010 that an earthquake struck Haiti, an event that killed close to 200 thousand residents ("Haitians on way ...

Emergency Response and the Haitian Earthquake

On January 12, 2010 Haiti was shaken by one of the most devastating earthquakes of history. Because it hit in the most populated ...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

Geology: Earthquakes and Liquefaction

through both solids and liquids, usually at a rate of between "6 and 13 km/sec" (Environmental geology, 2008, p. 7). S-waves are s...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

is bounded by the Sierra Nevada on the east, the Sierra de las Cruces on the west and the Sierra Chichinautzin to the south" (Aqui...

NJ and Earthquake Preparedness

centered near New York City and had been felt through much of New Jersey (von Hake, 1975). There were also significant earthquakes...

Insurance for Earthquakes

(GAOR, 2005). When this occurs it not only severely hinders rebuilding in the region, but also the lack of available insurance ser...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

The C.R.E.S.T. Warning System

al, 2002). It also aims to reduce the number of false tsunami warnings given by providing information to the warning centers that ...

Words of Light a Lasting Memorial to the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank

capturing for all to see one moment in time that shall never change in the viewer (or readers) mind? To liken Cadavas words to th...

Effects and Hazards of Earthquakes

to be the most damaging waves due to the fact that "buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical mo...

Earthquake Measurement

the news media is always quick to point out that it was this or that number (i.e. 3.5, 4.0., 5.7, etc.) on the Richter scale. Most...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Earthquake Activity

The Northern East coast has also experienced various earthquakes throughout the centuries. The New England area has experienced ma...

New Madrid Fault and Earthquakes

than a dozen large aftershocks, and literally thousands of small-but unnerving, by all reports-tremors that kept the earth undulat...

NJ Earthquakes

In five pages New Jersey is examined in terms of its geographical characteristics and its potential for earthquake activity with c...

NY and Earthquakes

In seven pages New York is geologically examined in terms of regional fault lines and the potential for a major earthquake occurre...

NYC and Potential for a Serious Earthquake

our rock. And these rifts share another frightening trait: a strong inclination to produce earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 7.5. A 7...

Earthquake Protection and Prediction Scientific Advances

This paper consists of five pages and considers how technology can assist in minimizing earthquake damage through prediction. The...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...

Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989

In eleven pages this October 17, 1989 San Francisco earthquake which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale is discussed in terms of ...