The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.0 Ms[1][8][9] and 7.9.... According to a study by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), this earthquake ...
3 Answers · Education & Reference · 11/12/2008
Earthquakes are a major threat to all cities (or any type of land, rural, urban, or city) located on a fault line... Fransisco, California, Wednesday, April 18th, 1906. A large earthquake , registering somewhere between 7.7 and 8.2 on the Richter Scale, caused buildings...
2 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 16/07/2010
PROTECTION DURING EARTHQUAKES The following are some of the...for your family for reuniting after an earthquake if anybody separated , Urge your...
1 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 20/11/2011
Most earthquakes are the result of strain which builds up in the earth due to the movement...which point the plates shift, producing the shock waves of an earthquake . Earthquakes can also occur in the middle of a plate; if the plate motion ...
11 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 09/07/2009
The number and magnitude of earthquakes is not increasing. Our... now locates about 50 earthquakes each day, or about 20,000 a year. As...
3 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 10/04/2010
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth s crust that...with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete...
4 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 21/08/2008
The earthquake was first FELT by me as I...the biggest quake in SoCal since the LA Earthquake when I was in college in 1970. The ...
16 Answers · Entertainment & Music · 05/04/2010
Earthquakes are caused when a fault ruptures and the two sides... of the fault. In the long term the cumulative effect of lots of earthquakes on a fault segment is to move the blocks on either side either up and...
4 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 26/02/2011
1. The largest recorded earthquake in the United States was a...electronics allowed recordings of large earthquakes , scientists built large spring-pendulum...
6 Answers · Education & Reference · 08/02/2009
...plate boundary, either constructive or destructive, and is therefore not an area where large earthquakes would be expected. However, in this case, the cause of the earthquake ...
2 Answers · Science & Mathematics · 20/02/2008
