The western United States is one of Earth’s most tectonically active regions, characterized by extensive crustal deformation through intraplate earthquakes and geodetic motion. Such intracontinental deformation is usually ascribed to plate boundary forc
There are three earthquakes that are difficult to forget.The first one was in 1955 and our oldest daughter was walking with me in our backyard in Redwood City in California.As the shaking became stronger I held her to me with one arm as I held on to one of our fruit trees...
We have plumbed and electrified the wilderness of Los Angeles. But we haven’t tamed it. How could we? To live here, we don’t make a pact with nature as much as we reach an uneasy standoff with it. We know there will be earthquakes — the ground is riddled with fault lines — b...
根据第一段第二句“”But,because relatively few of us live along fault lines,the massive earthquake that hit Haiti this month was a reminder that we're far less versed on what to do when the ground below us convulses.(翻译为但是,由于生活在断层线上的人相对较少,本月袭击海地的大地震提...
(average elevation 20,000 ft/6,100 m) are found; the Lesser Himalayas with 7,000 to 15,000 ft (2,130–4,570 m) elevations; and the southernmost Outer Himalayas, 2,000 to 5,000 ft (610–1,520 m) high. A relatively young and still growing system subject to severe earthquakes, ...
s crisis. What actually destroyed it was the combination of an extended blackout and the failure of its backup power systems. The question we need to consider is not whether similar earthquakes and tsunamis can happen here; it is whether a plant could, for any combination of reasons, ...
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Urban resilience: Bouncing back, coping, thriving The recent Christchurch earthquakes provide a unique opportunity to betterunderstand the relationship between pre-disaster social fault-lines and post-disa... S Vallance - 《Lincoln University》 被引量: 4发表: 2012年 Weathering the Storm: Why Are ...
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000 people. turkey has a history of severe seismic activity. in 2020, two major earthquakes struck the country’s far eastern and western ends and killed more than 45 people. for a country like turkey, bordering two fault lines and full of old, likely unreinforced structures, earthquakes can...