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Seismic Sea Sea Floor Water
550 wordsA tsunami is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and even the impact of cosmic bodies, such as meteorites, can generate tsunamis. These waves can savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life. In English, the word tsunami means "harbor wave. " Represented by two characters, the top character, "tsu, " means harbor, while the bottom character, "nami, " means "wave. " In the past,...
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Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean
1,327 wordsPlease note this is a "Scientific Report" not an essay please bare this in mind. Introduction The word Tsunami is a Japanese term meaning wave in the harbour. It is the most apt description for the hazard as tidal wave or seismic wave lead to incorrect connotations and misunderstandings. The dictionary definition of the word Tsunami itself means a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption, this is only half accurate, which I will attempt to illustrate in this ...
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Gravitational Pull Ocean Bottom
1,386 wordsPhysics of Tsunamis Wendy M. Blevins PS 102 Explorations in Physics Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract This paper will discuss the physics and warning systems of tsunamis, a destructive wave force that researchers have been studying for many years. Tsunamis are different than tides or surface waves because undersea earthquakes, instead of winds or the gravitational pull of the moon or sun, generate them. They can reach speeds of up to 700 kilometers per hour but can be undetected unti...
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Lava Flows Mount St
941 wordsThe plates which are about 20 miles thick, make up the earth's crust and are a chief cause of volcanic activity. These plates are always in motion. They move very slowly, however some at times bump in to each other. These movements put a lot of pressure on the surface rock. Volcanoes obtain their energies from such movement and pressure. Volcanoes form at the boundaries of these plate where two types of movement occurs, two plates will collide with each other or the plates will move apart from e...
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Encyclop Dia Britannica Prime Minister
2,635 wordsJapans viability When we think of Japan, the first things that come in mind are the red circle of Japans national flag, an ancient civilization with its own traditions, samurai and The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise, yen and Japanese economy, one of the most powerful in the world, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, destroyed with the first atom bombs, Tokyo and the Kyoto treaty, Emperor and Prime Minister of Japan. The list could be long. Therefore, we understand that Japan is very old and inte...
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Sri Lanka Tsunami A Social Autopsy Part 2
1,665 words... were the biggest problems to follow. There were also case of pneumonia and lung inflammations from water inhalation during the inundation, especially among women and children who would have had trouble staying above water. Also, minor injuries become easily infected. A greater danger than that posed by unburied dead bodies would be nitrogen poisoning from mass graves leaching into groundwater, so that had to be watched. Identifying the bodies was a worse problem than burying them, so they to...
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Miles Per Hour Natural Disasters
1,094 wordsNatural Disasters The natural disasters have existed since the world creation. The description of the first disaster, the Noah's Flood is given in the Bible. That was the Creators will to send the first flood to the man. Nowadays the natural disasters occur now and then in the various parts of the globe. Natural disasters are caused by the natural cataclysms. Natural phenomena may turn to a disaster. The disaster may be defined as Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life or destructio...
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Earths Crust San Francisco
1,193 wordsAn earthquake is shaking or trembling of the earth that is volcanic or tectonic in origin. A broadly satisfying explanation of the majority of earthquakes can be given in terms of what is called plate tectonics. The basic idea is that the Earths outermost part also called the lithosphere consists of several large and fairly stable slabs of solid and relatively rigid rock called plates (Bravely 154). These plates continuously move pushing and rubbing against each other. Since the earliest of time...
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Earthquakes Occur Earthquake Damage
355 wordsAn Earthquake, is when the earths surface shakes caused by rapid movement of the earths rocky outer layer. Earthquakes occur when energy stored within the earth, usually in the form of strain in rocks, suddenly releases. This energy is transmitted to the surface of the earth by earthquake waves. The study of earthquakes and the waves they create is called seismology. Thats why they call Scientists who study earthquakes, seismologists. Some earthquakes are not strong enough to be felt by people, ...
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Number Of Deaths Earth Surface
537 wordsEvery year there are about a million earthquakes. Fortunately, not all of them are destructive. The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Richter Scale, which goes from zero upward. Major damage generally occurs from earthquakes ranging from 6. 0 upwards. The damaging earthquakes also occur either in the narrow belt, which surrounds the Pacific Ocean or in a line, which extends from Burma to the Alps in Europe. Earthquakes are one of natural wonders of the world that cause the most death...
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Charleston S C Volcanic Eruptions
2,884 wordstrembling or Natural Disasters earthquake, trembling or shaking movement of the earths surface. Most earthquakes are minor tremors. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take the form of one or more violent shocks, and end in vibrations of gradually diminishing force called aftershocks. The subterranean point of origin of an earthquake is called its focus; the point on the surface directly above the focus is the epicenter. The magnitude and intensity of an earthquake i...
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Billions Of Years Volcanic Eruptions
367 wordsPlanet Earth is our home in space. It is a planet of continuous changes that started billions of years ago and that will continue for billions of years to come. Sometime the earth undergoes changes or movements that are rapid and effect our environment and safety. These rapid changes are known as natural disasters. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons (hurricanes), tsunamis, floods, droughts, fires, and other events which are indications of interactions of mass and energy on t...
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