The Marmara region is a tectonically active belt in northwestern Turkey and has had an extensive paleogeographical evolution in relation to the development of the strike-slip North Anatolian Fault (NAF). There, in Pliocene the NW oriented intermountain basins bounded tectonically by former splays of...
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They are working with a search and rescue group called GEA, who are based in Turkey, a country with frequent earthquakes and hoping that by next year they’ll be able to take the rats to Turkey for trials.1. What advantage do rats have over dogs in the rescue work? A.They are ...
The major aftershock was probably caused by the initial quake destabilising an adjacent fault that had also accumulated geological stresses over the years. No wonder then that Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at University College London, told Sky News on Monday that what Turkey a...
Philippine libraries face numerous disasters but only minority have a disaster plan; most literature on disaster management in libraries is from the USA; Indonesia – plan focuses on conservation of collections; Turkey earthquake showed need for counselling. USA – Overdue copy of George Orwell’s ...
After the Great Fire, about a fourth of the population of the city, mostly Jewish people, were left homeless. Many of them emigrated to other countries later, to be soon replaced by refugees who came from Turkey after the population exchange in 1921. The parts of the city that had been ...
When the transformed Scrooge awakens on Christmas Day, he has no trouble sending a boy to “the Poulterer’s in the next street” to buy “the big prize turkey in the window” and having it delivered to the Cratcit family- early on Christmas morning. So Christmas 1843 was still more of...
解析【小题1】Everybody hates rats. But in the earthquake places of the world – Japan, Los Angeles, Turkey – rats will soon be man’s new best friends.可知答案为B 【小题2】根据文章内容Although there are already robots which can do this job, rats are better. Christian Linster at Corne...
In this memoir, writer Kapka Kassabova returns to her homeland of Bulgaria to explore the country’s border with Greece and Turkey. Border is a rare book: On its face a travel narrative, it also examines the tentacled effects of the Cold War and Europe’s great migration crisis. France ...
Everybody hates rats.But in the earthquake capitals of the world-Japan, Los Angeles, Turkey-rats will soon be man’s new best friends. What happens after an earthquake? We send in rescue(营救)dogs.Why? Because they can smell people.Dogs save lives.They help rescuers to find living people...