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Volcanoes and Earthquakes

brief understanding of what is involved in these types of volcanoes: "Shield volcanoes are formed by a very liquid lava rock. This...

Insurance for Earthquakes

(GAOR, 2005). When this occurs it not only severely hinders rebuilding in the region, but also the lack of available insurance ser...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. Earthquake Activity

The Northern East coast has also experienced various earthquakes throughout the centuries. The New England area has experienced ma...

Optimizing Athletic Performance Through Serious Regimens of Exercise and Nutrition

heart attacks are an unfortunate result of improperly planned and conducted exercise. Unfortunately, too many athletes resort to ...

Happiness is a Serious Problem by Dennis Prager

1989). Competition is one of the many aspects upon which people base their happiness, a reality Prager (1999) says all but defeat...

Earthquake Measurement

the news media is always quick to point out that it was this or that number (i.e. 3.5, 4.0., 5.7, etc.) on the Richter scale. Most...

Education and a Serious Religion Curriculum

between the teacher and the students. In the book, Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, by Warren Nord and Charles Ha...

The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

Serious Purpose of Humor in the Workplace

job can draw people together, inspire creativity, improve health, create a pleasant work environment, reduce stress and help keep ...

Effects and Hazards of Earthquakes

to be the most damaging waves due to the fact that "buildings are more easily damaged from horizontal motion than from vertical mo...

Why California Won’t Fall into the Ocean

the "plate boundary" between these two (Louis and Anderson, 2001). Because the earth is still cooling, it is still releasing its i...

Global Warming is a Serious Problem

everything else" (64). Global warming affects many natural events. There has been much discussion about storms. Scientists, as w...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

800 rooms and rising an "impressive" seven stories.6 The hotel featured a "central grand court surrounded by tier after tier of co...

Earthquake Planning and Decision Support Systems

A decision support system (DSS) is software that is capable of using complex analytical models that can help support the decision ...

Statistics On Natural Disasters: China

throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what on...

America's Most Serious Social Problem

the direction in which America is headed. What has gone wrong? The top Americans arent getting richer by accident; government pol...

The C.R.E.S.T. Warning System

al, 2002). It also aims to reduce the number of false tsunami warnings given by providing information to the warning centers that ...

Emergency Response and the Haitian Earthquake

On January 12, 2010 Haiti was shaken by one of the most devastating earthquakes of history. Because it hit in the most populated ...

Earthquakes A Catastrophic Emergency

The USGS provides a list of the most destructive earthquakes that have ever been recorded. The most recent earthquakes...

Bats are Dying and their Death Could Have Serious Widespread Impacts

C. Potential human impacts VI. Attempts to Control A. Limiting Human Cave Access...

Disasters

quake it was estimated that at least 400 people had died. The conditions were relatively dire as almost freezing temperatures at n...

The Sichuan Earthquake and The Economy

the massive quake, more than 34,000 were declared dead and some of those were rescue workers (Ho, 2008). That was an early count. ...

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake

is bounded by the Sierra Nevada on the east, the Sierra de las Cruces on the west and the Sierra Chichinautzin to the south" (Aqui...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Geology: Earthquakes and Liquefaction

through both solids and liquids, usually at a rate of between "6 and 13 km/sec" (Environmental geology, 2008, p. 7). S-waves are s...

Use of Social Media during Disasters: Article Critique

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of an article focused on the use of social media and the earthquake in Japan in 2011. This pap...

Senegal's Offer to Help Haiti

It was in January of 2010 that an earthquake struck Haiti, an event that killed close to 200 thousand residents ("Haitians on way ...

Need for Earthquake Preparedness

This research paper presents an overview of earthquake preparedness and the factors that of which nurses should be knowledgable. F...

The Impact of Nursing, Earthquake,

This research paper focuses on nursing care in regards to earthquake victims. The writer reviews relevant recent literature in re...