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living under a rock

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:29:29 GMT

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That’s literally what some of the inhabitants of Setenil de las Bodegas feel like, because part of this small Spanish town is covered by a large cliff. And this big piece of stone looks like it could come tumbling down on tens of houses if an earthquake happens in the area.

Tags: setenil de las bodegas, rock, town, cliff

earthquake rebuild

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:30:30 GMT

clipped by: SergioMiranda
clipper's remarks: precautions not taken after the 1906 earthquake.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In the rush to rebuild the city, building standards were in fact lowered instead of strengthened "by upwards of 50%" according to historian Robert Hansen. Part of the rush to rebuild was the desire to be ready for an international exposition set to be hosted in 1915, and indeed by that year there was almost no visible damage to be seen in the city. The total disregard to earthquake safety plagues the city today, as a majority of buildings standing in the city today were built in the first half of the 20th century. Incredibly, it has been suggested that building standards did not reach even 1906 levels until the 1950s. A detailed analysis of the city today estimates that an earthquake even less powerful than the 1906 quake would completely destroy many sections of the city and result in thousands of deaths.^{[citation needed]}

eq magnitude

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:15:26 GMT

clipped by: otent
clipper's remarks: a definition

Clip Source: www.sciencecourseware.org

A well-known scale used to compare the strengths of earthquakes involves using the records (the seismograms) of an earthquake's shock waves. The scale, known as the Richter Magnitude Scale, was introduced into the science of seismology in 1935 by Dr. C. F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The magnitude of an earthquake is an estimate of the total amount of energy released during fault rupture. The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is a number: about 3 for earthquakes that are strong enough for people to feel and about 8 for the Earth's strongest earthquakes. Although the Richter scale has no upper nor lower limits, earthquakes greater than 9 in Richter magnitude are unlikely. The most sensitive seismographs can record nearby earthquakes with magnitude of about -2 which is the equivalent of stamping your foot on the floor.

V.I. earthquake

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:43:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.onepaper.com

Earthquake Rattles Territory

by Lynda Lohr

     Oct. 11, 2008 -- Residents across the territory started their day with a good shake when a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit 50 miles north of Little Harbour, Jost Van Dyke at 6:40 a.m. Saturday. The earthquake was focused 17 miles beneath the sea floor.
      Pets ran for cover as walls shook and windows rattled. One resident reported his house swayed.
      While seismologists can't say how long the earthquake lasted, residents said it went on "forever."
     "It was pretty impressive and loud," Coral Bay, St. John resident Anne Klenke said.
      No damage was reported.
      Klenke's husband, Robert, was just getting on his ham radio for the morning get together with other hams in the area.
      "Everybody was commenting," he said.
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Tags: v.i. earthquake

How to recession-proof your family

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:56:39 GMT

clipped by: rmowery
clipper's remarks: EXACTLY!

'Why does Suze Orman say people first, then money, then things?'" she says. "It means if we cared about people more than we cared about money, we would not be having what happened today, because the people who run the corporations, if they had cared about all of you, they wouldn't have created loans that you couldn't afford."

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

How to recession-proof your family

(OPRAH.com) -- The American economy has hit a new low. Home values are plummeting, bills are rising and job layoffs have every worker concerned.

Factor in the sudden bankruptcy of 158-year-old investment bank Lehman Brothers, an $85 billion federal bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc., Bank of America's quick purchase of Merrill Lynch and rumors of future sales and the rejection of a $700 billion government bailout, it's no wonder Americans are worried about their money.

Are you sick to your stomach and scared out of your mind?

"We have built an entire economy on lies and deceit," she says. "It's like building a home or an entire building on a sinkhole. You have a foundation, supposedly. But a little crack, if something goes wrong -- a little earthquake, a tremor -- and it starts to open, everything starts to fall down and ... that is exactly what has happened in the United States of America."

Tags: recession proof, family, loans, homes, suze orman, bankruptcy, credit lines

Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:29:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Infrared and multispectral images reveal 9,000-square-mile structure

In this satellite image, the white arrows show the buried pyramid and the black arrows other structures which have yet to be investigated.

"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News. "The biggest problem was the very low contrast between adobe, which is sun-dried earth, and the background subsoil."

Cahuachi is the best-known site of the Nazca civilization, which flourished in Peru between the first century B.C. and the fifth century A.D. and slid into oblivion by the time the Inca Empire rose to dominate the Andes.

Between 300 and 350 A.D., two natural disasters — a powerful flood and a devastating earthquake — hit Cahuachi. The site lost its sacred power to the Nazca, who then abandoned the area.

they sealed all monuments and buried them under the desert sand.

Tags: peru, archaeology

1000 Year Old Quake Proof Buildings

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:58:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraphindia.com

1000-year-old quake-proof architecture
Science seal on ancient houses

(Top and below) The earthquake-resistant buildings in Rajgarhi in Uttarakhand

Dehra Dun, Sept. 21: People in one of India’s most earthquake-prone zones had mastered the art of building multi-level buildings resistant to seismic movement about a thousand years ago, an engineering study of the structures has revealed.

Researchers have found that ancient four-storey and five-storey buildings in Rajgarhi district of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand reflect a distinct and elaborate style of architecture that allowed them to survive devastating quakes.

Scientists believe the Koti Banal architecture — named after a village in the district — relied on stone-filled solid platforms and judicious use of wood, which offered special advantages over other materials during earthquakes.

Site excavation

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:01:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ancientcorinth.net

1831-33: Corinth considered as possible site for new national capital

1858: City destroyed by earthquake, New Corinth is founded

1896: Excavations begun by American School of Classical Studies at Athens

1981: earthquake

Byzantine Corinth

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:57:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ancientcorinth.net

Byzantine era

The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 375 and again in 551. During Alaric's invasion of Greece, in 395–396, Corinth was one of the cities he despoiled, selling many of its citizens into slavery.

During the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, a large stone wall was erected from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulf, protecting the city and the Peloponnesean peninsula from the barbarian invasions of the north. The stone wall was about six miles (10 km) long and was named Examilion (exi=six in Greek). During this era Corinth was the seat of the Thema of Hellas (representing modern day Greece).

In the 12th century (during the reign of the Comnenus dynasty), the wealth of the city, generated from the silk trade to the Latin states of western Europe, attracted the attention of the Sicilian Normans under Roger of Sicily, who plundered it in 1147.

Could Not be More Clear~a Straight Line to B.O

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:42:41 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: We obviously have NO CLUE what "we" are doing!!!

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

ACORN recognized very early the opportunity presented by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977

Madeline Talbott, a Chicago ACORN leader, boasted of "dragging banks kicking and screaming" into dubious loans.

ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days. Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff -- the very people who would later descend on Chicago's banks as CRA shakedown artists.

nominee later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ditto.

With the whole financial world and possibly the world economy trembling and cracking like a cement building in an earthquake, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN? And, unashamed, they then trot out to the TV cameras to declare "the party is over" for Wall Street (Nancy Pelosi)? The party should be over for the Democrats who brought us to this pass. If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to fight a fire.

The Quake-Catcher Network

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:19:31 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Catching earthquakes with your own computer.

Clip Source: qcn.stanford.edu

Welcome to the Quake-Catcher Network

The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers.

With your help, the Quake-Catcher Network can provide better understanding of earthquakes, give early warning to schools, emergency response systems, and others. The Quake-Catcher Network also provides educational software designed to help teach about earthquakes and earthquake hazards.

Guilty Party

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:06:43 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days. Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff — the very people who would later descend on Chicago’s banks as CRA shakedown artists. The Democratic nominee later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ditto. Obama was not just sympathetic — he was an ACORN fellow traveler.

But now? With the whole financial world and possibly the world economy trembling and cracking like a cement building in an earthquake, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN? And, unashamed, they then trot out to the TV cameras to declare “the party is over” for Wall Street (Nancy Pelosi)? The party should be over for the Democrats who brought us to this pass. If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to fight a fire.

Earthquake faults

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:22:11 GMT

clipped by: songmeister

Clip Source: www.uwgb.edu

list of natural disasters, worldwide by year

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:52:54 GMT

clipped by: kroqben
clipper's remarks: easily forgotten, unfortunately...

Clip Source: www.developmentfromdisasters.net

List of World Disasters

Recent major geophysical disasters*

Date	Country	Disaster type	Victims and damages
October 2005	Pakistan	Earthquake	73,338 killed, 69,142 injured 2,800,000 homeless US$5,000,000,000 damage
26 December 2004	Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Maldives, other countries	Wave/Surge Tsunami Earthquake	223,492 killed 400,000 homeless US$10,000,000,000 damage
February 2005	Iran	Earthquake	612 killed, 1,411 injured 93,355 affected US$80,000,000 damage
February 2004	Morocco	Earthquake	628 killed, 926 injured 12,539 homeless US$400,000,000 damage
December 2003	Iran	Earthquake	26,796 killed, 22,628 injured 45,000 homeless 200,000 affected US$1,000,000,000 damage

California Academy of Sciences

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:22 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: 4-story aquarium and a rain forest.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

A window on the roof of the new California Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco offers a view inside. Architect Renzo Piano brings together the very different priorities of cutting-edge and green design.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

A key feature of the building, located in Golden Gate Park, is its grass-covered roof. Containing nine species of native plants in its 2 1/2 acres, the roof will filter storm runoff and keep the building cool in summer and warm in winter.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Renzo Piano calls the green roof "the flying carpet." The $488-million, 410,000-square-foot academy squeezes a natural history museum, aquarium and planetarium into a single facility.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The African Hall features an arched, coffered ceiling and is a blindingly white re-creation of the former structure, which was demolished after suffering damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The hall is a sugary counterpoint to Renzo Piano's glass walls.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Tags: science, environment