The quake was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak which lies 8 km to the northeast. Although much of the damage and most of the fatalities occurred in the San Francisco/Oakland area, geologists estimate the earthquake's intensity near the epicenter at between 6.9 and 7.1 on the Richter Scale. The communities nearest the epicenter are all in Santa Cruz County. This is somewhat unusual for an earthquake of this magnitude. Some of the statistical results of the disaster were: more than $7 billion in property damage, 414 single-family homes destroyed, 104 mobile homes destroyed, 18,306 homes damaged, 97 businesses and 3 public buildings destroyed and 2,575 businesses
More than 2,000 killed, 3,000 injured and $550 million damage in Chile; seismic sea wave caused 56 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; $500 thousand damage to west coast of the United States. From ISC Bulletin, The International Seismological Summary. The following table lists particulars reported by the Survey for the larger shocks of the series of destructive earthquakes in central and southern Chile which began on May 21 and which is still continuing as of this writing in mid-August. The
Earthquakes 1. The San Andreas Fault runs the length of California – it’s a conservative plate boundary. 2. Earthquakes occur when pressure between the plates builds up and then is suddenly released as they jerk passed each other. 3.
Some think it only affected Haiti, but it also affected the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. This earthquake was very deadly and broke 250 years of strain. A strain is when the rocks under the land/ocean over lap and cause a quake by strong vibrations. This quake struck around 5 o’clock p.m. (“Disaster”) The homeless and fearful survivors took shelter under tarps on the grounds outside the Prime Minister’s office. Two horribly damaged hospitals had no doctors or medical workers on duty.
These two normally push together steadily, but when they jam the pressure builds up, and then is realised as an earthquake, such as the Kashmir quake [pic] How were the people affected? Many people had their houses destroyed, or made inaccessible, from damage. Landslides disrupted travel and emergency aid from getting to the region, and possibly causing more deaths. Fires from broken gas main could easily destroy what people had left of their belongings. Most of the buildings were flattened due to the materials they were made of and how they were built (without foundations or to be able to move with the shock waves).
The deadly earthquake caused a large amount of damage and death in the country and in the pacific coastal areas. Also the tsunami that took place afterwards was the result of this earthquake, which is said to be the largest earthquake that ever happened. According to the Chilean government they estimated around 2,000,000 people were
How the 1906 Earthquake Marked the Dawn of Understanding Earthquakes And the Study of the San Andreas Fault in California On the morning of April 18, 1906 at approximately 5:12 in the morning, the city of San Francisco was awoken to one of the most devastating earthquakes in the history of California. The earthquake and subsequent fires caused an estimated 3,000 deaths and over half of the city’s residents were left homeless, and the once wealthiest and most important cities on the Pacific Coast was turned to ashes and ruins (Zoback). Before 1906, little was known or understood about earthquakes, how and where they occurred, or the risk they posed. Although the 1906 earthquake manifested a groundbreaking and tragic event in California,
A seismometer permits seismologists to produce a map of the Planet’s inner surface. Another device that is used to utilize the measures of earthquakes is a Richter magnitude scale. This device provides figure to the quantity of seismic energy released during an earthquake. The Richter magnitude scale was created in 1935 by Charles Richter (www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/intensity.html). Another way to measure the strength of an earthquake is to use the Mercalli scale.
These include: earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornados, etc. With these natural disasters come devastating aftermath and the people that these areas affect depend on others to help them get by. A big example going on right now is the earthquake and tsunami that happened in Japan a few weeks ago. These natural disasters devastated many towns and took peoples’ lives, but it also left many homeless with much of people’s families disappearing. Another example that happened in the United States was hurricane Katrina.
In 2011, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected with HIV. 330,000 were under the age of 15. Every day nearly 7,000 people contract HIV—nearly 300 every hour. In 2011, 1.7 million people died from AIDS. 230,000 of them were under the age of 15.