I’ve been studying to use the software program and database World Earthquake Explorer for my geophysics course this semester. It appears very useful, although I’m nonetheless making an attempt to figure out how I can get well ground movement amplitudes so as to have my students calculate magnitudes.

There have been about 500 deaths, many attributable to tsunamis. Damages totaling $30 billion in U.S. dollars don’t begin to seize the hardship and loss confronted by thousands of Chileans. A couple of tall buildings fell, many homes have been destroyed, bridges and roads were reduce, and power was knocked out throughout most of Chile. Nevertheless, I was impressed at how few urban constructions in Concepción and Santiago collapsed. I concern that Los Angeles, 60 miles from me, might not fare so properly when our time comes.

It’s an event that is brought on by a pure hazard and results in human, materials, economical and environmental losses. They’re beyond the control of human beings. Nature gives us with all the sources, however it may be typically merciless also. Some examples of natural disasters are- the 2001 earthquake in Bhuj, Gujarat, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 2008 earthquake in China, the 2007 … Read the rest