Juan Forero
Thousands of temblors occur every day. Here’s what you need to know about where they usually take place and how they're measured.
For example, both the Nagasaki Atomic bomb explosion and an earthquake in Lancashire,United Kingdomin2008measured the same on the Richter scale. Both the above events measured an approximate 5 magnitude on the Richter scale, indicating that 32 kilotons of seismic energy were recorded during these ...
Cecilia is a 7th-grader.She,her parents and her brother,Sam,were in Chile's capital city,Santiago,the day a big earthquake hit Chile.And like just about everyone else,they were shaken out of their sleep."It was so frightening,"Sam wrote."The shaking was so huge that I will never go...
19.What was the consequence of the earthquake that happened in Chile?A.Power cut. B.Serious injuries. C.A tsunami.20.Which of the business strategies is NOT mentioned in the third news?A.Offering visas to individual Chinese tourists.
What is subsidence in geology? What conditions would most likely lead to liquefaction during a high-magnitude earthquake? What lies beneath the tectonic plates? What tectonic plate is subducting under Japan? What was the epicenter of the Alpine Fault 1717 earthquake?
The largest earthquake (magnitude里氏9.5 ) of the 20th century happened on May 22, 1960 off the coast of South Central Chile. It generated (生成) one of the most destructive Pacific-wide tsunamis (海啸). Near the generating area, both the earthquake and the tsunami were very much destructive...
$800 billion US Dollars in damage. It is highly probable that some ancient earthquakes were of a higher magnitude, but because the Richter scale was not developed until the 1930s, it is difficult to quantitatively compare them. For example, the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was by all accounts ...
Taking into account these thousands or tens of thousands of additional lotteries to choose from, the probability now drops by several orders of magnitude, and is now basically comparable to the probability coming from the null hypothesis. As such one does not expect the event to have a ...
it was found that the intensity of an earthquake – its effects on the surface – depends as much on the depth of the hypocentre as the actual magnitude of the earthquake. In other words, a shallower, less powerful earthquake can inflict more surface damage than a deeper, more powerful one...