Essays Tagged: "epicenter"
The Kobe earthquake.
Specific Geological causes:The magnitude of the Hanshin earthquake is 7.2 on the Richter scale. The epicenter is 34.6 N 135.0E Awajishima Island, 20 miles south of Kobe and the focus of the earthquake ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Largest Earthquake in History: Chile 1960
recorded as 9.5 M. This occurred on May 22,1960. The earthquake struck at 2:11 p.m. local time. The epicenter of the earthquake was60 meters down below the eastern Pacific Ocean floor, about 100 miles ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
Change and Modernization: The Industrial Revolution (an anthropologists point of view)
of the movement can be traced to 1750 and continued through to about 1870. Although Britain was the epicenter of this change not many countries were unaffected by this. It may be argued that the reaso ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Chillean Earthquake
e designed to detect the amount of energy released by the movement of the ground during a quake.The epicenter of the earthquake was 60 meters down below the ocean floor about 100 miles off the coast o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
FDR Declares War - A Review of His "Infamy" Speech
empts to remain neutral, but the events of the following day will thrust The United States into the epicenter of the storm. On December 7, 1941, while Japanese diplomats were in Washington D.C. negoti ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
1976 Tangshan Earthquake
n the twentieth century occurred on July 28, 1976 near the east coast of the Republic of China. The epicenter was at the city of Tangshan, in the Hebei province, about 90 miles southeast of Beijing; t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
The December 26, 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia
known to evacuate. The earthquake was located about forty kilometers down sea level with its epicenter at 3.298oN, 95.779oE and the focal depth was about ten kilometers. "Hundreds, if not thous ... he rupture seems to have occurred in two segments beginning near the western coast of North Sumatra epicenter. It then moved northward, at a fast pace, to the Andaman Islands where a major fault alrea ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
Jesus: The Dawn of a New Jerusalem.
odus operandi: to birth a new ethic of behavior in a pious, ethnocentric culture. Jerusalem was the epicenter of an exclusivist society and religion, melded into its national setting (Israel) to its v ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Newspaper article: What Is It Like To Live In One Of The World's "Hot Spots" ?
ise. An earthquake that measured 8 on the Richter scale was an abrupt wake up call to everyone. The epicenter of the earthquake was nearest to Aceh, a populated city in the island of Sumatra, Indonesi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Newcastle Earthquake Case Study
n comparison to other major earthquakes in the world.LocationThe Newcastle earthquake had a shallow epicenter, about 1km - 5km below the surface which meant that the tremors from the earthquake was no ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs: A Look at Oppression
e United States today is arguably the most powerful nation in the world. It is a country that is an epicenter for commerce and trade, for cultural and artistic endeavors, and for politics on a global ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Emily the Fallen Rose
ssachusetts, the state where Emily was born and raised in, before the transcendental period was the epicenter of religious practice. Founded by the puritans, the feeling of the avenging had never left ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Hurricane Katrina and Global Warming
rlwind, which in the case of Katrina reached in diameter up to 215 miles with the wind speed in the epicenter being 155mi/h. The wave height in the Gulf of Mexico, in a zone where Katrina passed, reac ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Jet Blue: Change Analysis
nology and have 100% e-tickets.The System Operations Center (SOC) is the heart of the airline - the epicenter where effective decision-making, communication, teamwork, and leadership are critical to e ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management
Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health Professions
ebate should flow in the classroom and the potential barriers and overall benefits.Debate is at the epicenter of a democratic society. The ability to persuade another person to coincide with personal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology