Its beauty has made it a popular tourism place. But ten years ago, Wenchuan suffered an 8.0magnitude (八级的) earthquake, which damaged an area of over 100,000 square kilometers, killing close to 70,000 people and injuring more than 370,000. Ten years later, however, we c...
Of the 6,000 earthquakes in the world each year, only about fifteen cause great damage and many deaths. In 1556, an earthquake in northern China killed 830,000 people--the most in history. There was" no way to measure its strength. In 1935, scientists started using the Richter Scale to...
The third type of wave is called a surface wave, because its motion is restricted to near the ground surface. Just like the ripples of water that travel across a lake.bThese kinds of waves can be divided into two types. The first is called a Love wave. It moves the ground from side...
of central Tokyo, City, Town, and Village- because each local government has to revise its earthquake disaster management plan.According to these damage estimations, the Northern Tokyo Bay Earthquake of M7.3 causes most damage under conditions of : occurring on a weekday evening in winter with ...
Various types of brick masonry are used in the handling and treatment of hot materials in steelmaking processes. Although trouble related to damage of the ... Noriko KUBO,Takayoshi AOKI,Shunichi KAMEZAKI,... - 《Transactions of the Iron & Steel Institute of Japan》 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 ...
(Gordon, 1995; Gordon, 1998; Gordon, 2000; Mooney and White, 2010) were explained as the intraplate ones. An intraplate event was well investigated previously to explain the overall state of stress in the South China Sea and its focal mechanism indicated that horizontal compression oriented N38...
The phase diagram reveals that four different types of rupture patterns exist. Based on their different rupture termination styles, we divide these four rupture types into two groups: Both sub-Rayleigh and super-shear ruptures are run-away earthquakes, as their rupture fronts spread continuously unt...
Gyumri, the capital of Armenia's Shirak region and the country's second-largest city, was historically known for its culture and architectural heritage. While it was part of the Soviet Union, the city hosted many factories that turned it into a primary industrial center in the region, reaching...
(e.g. magnitude, focal mechanism, depth), and its effects can be dramatically different from one location to another185. This will depend mainly on distance to the epicentre but also direction and local site amplification factors186,187. Moreover, some physical mechanisms are sensitive to the ...
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