Angeles‚ the causes and the plate tectonics and faults. For many years people always called southern California Americas Promised Land because of its beautiful weather‚ beaches and its film industry. Now with 13 million habitants it’s been looked at as hazard city. “Not only does the San Andreas Fault‚ marking the conservative margin between the Pacific and North American plates‚ cross Southern California‚ but LA was built across a myriad of transform faults” ("Case Study For Multiple Hazards; Los Angeles
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112 Section 30 Professor Reed December 18‚ 2016 Preparedness Plan Final This paper is focused on the seismic hazard analysis‚ structural safety quiz of my household‚ and preparedness plan. The seismic hazard analysis is composed of fault rupture‚ ground shaking intensity‚ landslide potential‚ liquefaction susceptibility‚ and if there is a body of water nearby. Next is the structural safety quiz which consists of five to six questions about how concerned one should be about a home and
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name 4/23/12 Earth Science Earthquake essay Earthquakes are a very dangerous natural disaster‚ if strong enough; they could destroy the best-built buildings. They are caused by a sudden shift in the tectonic plates. Earthquakes can also cause other types of disasters too. They could cause tsunamis or volcanic eruptions. However earthquakes erupt unpredictable and can kill many people unpredictable. Seismometers can detect the strength of the earthquake‚ which then gives a number on the Richter
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Houston‚ Seattle‚ and San Francisco have all experienced a fault shift. In the case of Houston‚ the likelihood of an earthquake is extremely low. The instances of a fault shift on that area of the North American Plate don’t occur often. Earthquakes that occur are not by normal means of plates shifting but from the process of fluid extraction (Fehling 19). Seattle on the other hand has a very high probability of an earthquake occurring. There are three different types of quakes that the city experiences
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and biggest cities are located in California for example Los Angeles and San Francisco‚ making it the wealthiest state of the US. Earthquakes California lies on a conservative plate boundary where the Pacific plate and the North American plate are the components. There are separated by a transform fault‚ known as the San Andreas Fault. The Pacific plate is moving north comparative to the North American plate however the fault is not smooth and so friction between the plates occur causing plates
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can make the buildings also tip and lean. Los Angeles was built on a myriad of transform faults that include Santa Monica fault‚ the San Fernando fault‚ and Northridge/Santa Barbara fault. Even though these faults are not as well-known as the San Andreas Fault‚ where it margins are between the Pacific and North American plates that cross Southern California. Los Angeles is sitting near at least 60 known faults. The earth still moves frequently in these smaller less known areas. One example of this
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Earthquakes Lab Assignment Lab Assignment in “Quiz” format to be completed online Read the Introduction to Earthquake Hazards and Human Risks lab in your lab manual and complete Activity 16.1 and 16.4. After completing this lesson’s laboratory reading assignment‚ answer the following questions that refer to Lab 16: Activities 16.1 and 16.4. The questions have been reformatted to be included as a Quiz in GoVIEW. Make sure you read the discussions in the lab manual related to each one of the questions
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Explain why the Philippines and California are affected by disasters in different ways California is a state on the west coast of the USA and the Philippines is an island country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. They are both considered hazard hotspots and frequently experience natural disasters. A natural disaster is the realisation of a hazard. California is an MEDC‚ the 6th largest economy in the world with a GDP of US$65000 per capita. However‚ despite the high risk of hazards
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to express my opinion on your ideas to move our headquarters to San Francisco. While I am a lover of California and appreciate California from afar‚ I feel as though we should rethink relocating to California. I feel as though this is the best choice to make due to the fact that the earthquake of 1906 was just only a preview of what the San Andreas Fault can do to San Francisco. Due to my extensive research‚ I can conclude that; San Francisco is too dangerous for us to move our headquarters to‚ and
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altitude; it will gain snow and build up‚ this well then eventually give way and a devastating avalanche will occur. At the San Andreas Fault‚ there is a high chance of a landslide to occur; the reason being due to it been on a plate boundary‚ mini earthquakes will take place frequently‚ and because it’s low lying‚ it is also endangering the people below surrounding the fault line. As seen on figure 7‚ the Rocky Mountains are high lying‚ therefore prone to snow and glacial ice‚ because of climate
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