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Seattle, Washington and El Salvador Earthquakes

This paper contrasts and compares the regional and economic impacts of earthquakes in this region in 6 pages. Five sources are ci...

Chile's Natural Hazards

In eight pages this paper discusses volcanoes, floods, and earthquake tsunami as they relate to the Chilean geography. Six source...

Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Queen of Sciences' Description of Psychology

In eight pages this research paper analyzes Nietzsche's description of psychology. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

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 ...

Learning Lessons from Whittier Narrows and Northridge Earthquakes

In fourteen pages these earthquakes are discussed in terms of the lessons learned from them in terms of safety precautions. Fourt...

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...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

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...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Approaches to Science, Richard Pirsig's Work, and the Text Science and Its Ways of Knowing

In four pages this paper examines various scientific approaches as featured in Richard Pirsig's work and in this text. Three sour...

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 ...

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...

Computer Science's Shifting Paradigm

they became more common and more accessible. Shift of Paradigm A favorite saying of Mary...

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...

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

brief understanding of what is involved in these types of volcanoes: "Shield volcanoes are formed by a very liquid lava rock. This...

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...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...