Can earthquake be predicted Scientists are (1) programs to predict where and when an earthquake will occur. They hope to (2) an early warning system that can be used to (3) earth-quakes so that lives can be saved. The scientists who are (4) this work is called seismologists. The word...
In the part of the city where they live, there is not much fresh food to buy. The stores only have processed foods in packages. Maggie and Alex and all the other people in the building have to eat food that they buy in boxes and p...
Wong Fuk-wing(黄福荣), a Hong Kong volunteer(志愿者)at an orphanage(孤儿院)in Yushu, was killed in the earthquake when he was trying to save others on April 14, 2010. Wong managed to run safely out of the building with some children when the first quake happened at 7:50 am on Apr...
The hazard map predicted less than a 0.1% probability of shaking with intensity "6-lower" on the Japan Meteorological Agency intensity scale in the next 30 years off Tohoku. However, within two years, such shaking occurred. The chapter discusses factors that cause earthquake hazard maps to fail...
阅读理解 Kendrick caught the acting bug at the age of 10, when her parents would let her and her brother catch a bus from Portland, Maine, to New York- City so that she could attend interviews.Kendrick's first acting role was as Dinah in the Broadwa
An earthquake happens, and the replacement cost is found to be $500,000. But since you did not reach the coinsurance percentage, the ratio between the insurance limit ($900,000) and the required amount based on coinsurance percentage ($1.2 million) would be less than 1 (0.75). ...
In the same way that the potential magnitude of an earthquake is unknown until after the event, so too are the consequences of Covid-19. Some of these consequences will be unpredictable and the indirect effects significant. Indeed, Covid-19 meets the definition of a black swan in that it ...
Britain's Prince Harry (the Duke of Sussex), the son of the late Princess Diana who was literally hounded to death by the press, has scored a major legal victory against Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper and parent company News Group Newspapers, in London. Prince Harry even got them to ...
My first thought was they threw out Diddy's back or sprained his butt in jail, as there is a rumor in the industry that a bigger guy in there made him a bottom. He got a dose of his own medicine. However, it turns out the hospital visit was due to pain in his knee, which ...
The construction of the torch also incorporates sustainability by using aluminium waste from temporary housing that was built in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake. While the materials were once used to help rebuild lives, they will now be used to spread a message of hope and reco...