Essays on Earthquake

Think about how life would be if there is no earthquake? Build an imagery of what Earth will look like. You will probably say that there would be less destruction, loss of lives and earth would be a safer place to live in. But earthquake...

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and hurricanes inflict serious damage and so seem to be bad for the economy. For firms, natural disasters destroy tangible assets such as buildings and equipment as well as human capital and thereby deteriorate their production capacity. These...

Natural hazards have always fascinated me and therefore I made a decision to write this article on the subject. Earthquakes just like other hazards of nature are unpredictable and remain one of the most devastating among all natural disasters. A disturbing yet an inevitable fact...

Absolute mayhem has just occurred in California, as a devastating 9. 3 earthquake has hit, leaving San Francisco and surrounding cities completely destroyed. With reports of over 100, 000 deaths, and four times that many severe sustained injuries, there are is no time to waste....

Earthquake faults are way more complex than you could have thought. There have been a lot of trial and error geologists have gone through to figure out these natural occurrences and they haven’t even figured out most of their nature hood. So, what do geologists...

Out of many natural disasters, an earthquake is considered one of the most dangerous and evil. Until these recent days, the prediction of the shocks is one of the hardest tasks for the scientists to do. When the earthquake appears the giant cracks happen in...

Probable causes and governing factors related to the manifestation and distribution of intraplate earthquakes are proved to be very much subtle. Different researchers have tried to explain this earthquake in different perception and several model have been proposed till date. On a global context, occurrence...

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Evacuation planning is an essential element of emergency planning for companies and organizations. In general terms, people should make their way to a safe place during the evacuation. Situations such as earthquakes, fires, gas leaks, or subsidence may be...

To begin with, according to U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district Jan Schakowsky an earthquake is “There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when...

What is an earthquake? An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another. The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane. The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the...

An earthquake is when the ground starts shaking caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer layer push the sides of the fault together. Stress builds up and the rocks suddenly slip releasing a lot of energy in waves that...

Earthquake-proof Buildings After the massive earthquake near Japan one wonders if it’s possible to build an earthquake-proof building? The answer is yes and no. There are of course, engineering techniques that can be used to create a very sound structure that will endure a modest...

Parts of an Earthquake?- If two pieces of Earth, all of the sudden slip past each other then an Earthquake will follow. The surfaces that slip past each other are called fault line or fault plane. An earthquake starts in the hypocenter, which is located...

Scientists could predict whether or not major earthquakes are likely to occur, however, based on the movement of the plates in the Earth and the location of fault zones. They also can make general guesses about when earthquakes might occur in a certain area, by...

Parts of an Earthquake?-Earthquakes happen when two pieces of Earth all of the sudden slip past each other. The surfaces that slip past each other are called fault line or fault plane. An earthquake starts in the hypocenter, which is located beneath Earth’s surface. Right...

An earthquake is when the ground starts shaking caused by a slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth’s outer layer push the sides of the fault together. Stress builds up and the rocks suddenly slip releasing a ton of energy in waves that travel...

The Earth had formed over 4.5 billion years from now and since then, we are still seeing changes. We are seeing volcanoes erupting and earthquakes shaking the earth’s surface causing massive destruction, the causes is due to plate tectonics. The plate tectonic theory is the...

What scares you? For me it’s volcanoes. They can blow at any time and wipe out millions of people and destroy buildings. What do you think is scary about a volcano? What, you don’t know what a volcano is? Well, you are in luck! I’ll...

The term “Liquefied” was first used by Hazen in soil mechanics field, referring to the 1918 failure of the Calaveras Dam in California. Later, “Liquefaction is a phenomena wherein a mass of soil loses a large percentage of its shear resistance, when subjected to monotonic,...