WOULD survive? I am thinking thermophilic archaea as it seems to be pretty resilient.

What are the factors that determine the time that elapses between an earthquake and it’s discovery by seismometers, and how do these factors influence the travel time?

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Or do earthquakes start/originate per fault line?
For example, does the San Adreas fault move/crack when there’s an earthquake at the San Fernando/Northridge fault?

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Is anyone besides me worried about these sudden string of Earthquakes happening? I have a feeling the worst has yet to come. What is your opinion?

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I am currently in high school in PA (last place to be if your love the beach) and I HAVE TO go to college in North Carolina, because we also have another house down there and I can establish a residency and go for a cheaper price- no choice.
Now I’ve always dreamed about living in southern CA. Please dont lecture me about wildfires and earthquakes and insane prices of living, Im too young to go that far.
I want to work somewhere in fashion, either be a designer for a fashion merchandiser or work for a fashion magazine… I started a little jewelry business I have a website and business cards and everything… and that’s pretty impressive for a 15-year-old. so maybe I could work off making that grow into something really big
I know for a fact that I can’t just jump off the college band wagon and achieve this so no lectures about that either
Photography is my fallback, I could take pictures of the beach, or I could STILL work in fashion as a photographer-it comes naturally to me …

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someone in my family applied for the Haiti TPS thing & she found the letter late, she missed her appointment, the paper said that if she misses it,m her application will be considered "abondoned" -
-what does that mean?
-can she fix it easily?

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i live in southern los angeles and theres been a lot of earthquakes here ..what should you do ..should you stand at the door like a lot of people say..you know because the edges are stronger..or should you run outside..is it best to be up stairs or downstairs..im 18 and stay alone all night and want to know what to do in case of an earthquake..any advice?

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Sadly, the selfless heroism of New York’s Police and Firemen manifested on 9-11 appears to not be the “norm”. The public is becoming aware that our family’s, communities and our own health and safety rests in our own hands.
Columbine High School on April 20, 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murderous rampage began at 11 am, and they committed suicide an hour later at 12:08 pm — Police protocols had teams reaching the first victims 4 hours after the first shots had been fired or about 3 pm – victims who would die in the extra half hour it would take before those same police protocols allowed paramedics clearance to respond.
Hurricane Katrina: Officials tasked the National Guard to duties other than providing needed survival supplies and the Red Cross and Salvation Army were denied entrance as evacuation protocals didn’t want any food, water and sanitary supplies getting into the Superdome or Convention Center. It was and is up to the public to supply our own protection and aid.

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First Haiti, then Guatemala, then Chile, now California:

An earthquake rumbled early Saturday off the northern California coast and dozens of people in Humboldt County reported feeling it, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The 4.6-magnitude temblor hit at 12:46 a.m. and was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles west of Ferndale.

USGS geophysicist Randy Baldwin said the temblor was lightly felt in area cities such as Eureka and Ferndale but wasn’t strong enough to cause damage.

"Ferndale felt it the most," he said.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-mew-earthquake-northern-california6-2010mar06,0,5397081.story?track=rss

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whats happening to the worldd or is a cluster of earthquakes normal?

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it was me in a train , and the train had been derailing off the train tracks, i jumped out the window as soon as the train derailed, and there i was standing at the side of the tracks, watching the train fall onto its side. i was in geography today, and i saw a picture of that same train derailed off the train tracks, but the problem is, i’ve never seen the video of the earthquake in this place, which was major and happened in 1994 in america. can someone help? does this mean anythin? i dont usually ask questions like this and im really freaked out

it had something to do with san andreas fault or something! "/

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facilities in the Persian Gulf. A total of 120,000 gallons of crude oil(density 0.86 g/cm^3) spilled onto the desert soil. At first it was thought that 50,000 gallons eventually flowed into a reservoir that supplies drinking water to several communities.Later it was learned that only 35,000 gallons had flowed into the reservoir.The clean up crews removed the crude oil from the reservoir in a little over week.It took much longer to remove the crude oil from the sandy desert soil.After two weeks of continuous effort,, only 5000 gallons of oil had been removed.This area of the desert is irrigated and used for growing crops,,most of which were killed by the crude oil oil.It is not yet known if all if all the oil can be removed from the soil and if crops will grow in the region again.

a.- Which physical property of the crude oil allowed it to be easily cleaned uo from the water reservoir?
.b.- Why is the earthquake in the article considered to be a natural disaster?
c.-Calculate the percent deviation of the first estimate of the amount of crude oil in the reservoir compared to the actual amount. Including writing the equation,substituting values,and indicating the answer.
d.-What was the rate of the crude oil recovery from the soil in gallons per day for two week period described in the article? Show the work.
e.- Explain why the crude oil in the soil would be considered pollution.Be sure to use the term concentration in the answer.

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The Bubonic Plague of the mid-fourteenth century was the most devastating natural disaster in European History. We now konw that this plague was caused by rats that were infected by bacteria-carrying fleas. The rats carried the disease as they were unknowingly transported with cargo ships through trade routes. A third of the entire population of Europe is thought to have been killed by this plague. What caused the Bubonic Plague?

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Hello,

I’m looking for companies that deal with disaster reconstruction and disaster relief. I am a junior civil engineer and have an interest in working for a company that works in this area. If you could please provide me with some names and/or websites of companies that do this type of work it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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truth or rumor???
Thank you!!
I was just wondering, because
My friends heard it somewhere..
The area where I live wasn’t really affected,
We didn’t feel it much in the Bay Area.

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does anyone know how to make a model of a seismograph that actually works?

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Is it true that every disaster in the world goes through its obligatory two-week focus cycle and then is discarded as old news? Doesn’t this latest crisis in Haiti prove this once and for all? After all, the ante has now been upped to 200,000. Who would have thought that any calamity would have reached that number, much less an earthquake? Has there ever been an earthquake with that many deaths in the history of the world? If 200,000 dead people is not going to break the two-week attention barrier, then what will?

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im going to get

two Pioneer Champion Series Pro 12" TS-W3001D4

Watts MAX. Music Power 3000 Watts
Watts Nominal Power Handling 1000 Watts
Frequency Response 18 Hz to 700 Hz
Sensitivity 89 dB
Ohm Rating D2: (1 or 4 ohm) D4: (2 or 8 ohm)
Recommended Enclosure 0.50 ~ 1.0 Cubic Feet
Dimensions 329 mm x 214.2 mm
Mounting Depth 188.8 mm
Size 12"
Woofer Cone Material Interlaced Carbon Fiber/Glass Fiber Reinforced
Surround Wide-Roll, 3-Layer Fiber Woven Aramid Radial with Honeycomb Cloth
Voice Coil Dual 4-Layer, Long Voice Coil
Voice Coil Wire Copper
Voice Coil Bobbin Phenol Resin Coated Glass Cloth
Projected Pole Yoke with Vented Pole
Magnet Construction Double Stacked (110oz)
Basket Design Aluminum Die-Cast Rigid Chassis
Gasket 1-Piece Rubber
Wire Terminals Integrated Single-Sided Silver Compression Terminals

My head Unit isnt the best but it is a Legacy LD33M

Fold Down Detachable Panel
3 Inch TFT Wide Display
16:9 or 4:3 Wide Display
NTSC PAL Compatible
Picture Brightness/Contrast/Chroma/Hue
Preset EQ Mode
USB Function
Subwoofer Output
AUX Input Function
4 Channel RCA Output
30 Preset Stations
Support DVD/VCD/CD/MP3/WMA/JPG
Repeat/Program/Random
AM/FM Stereo Radio System
Auto Memory Store/ Preset Scan
MAX Output: 80 Watts x 4 Channels
Card Size Full Function Remote Control

My Amp is a Hifonics Brutus BXi Series Super D-Class™ Champions

Hifonics New Illuminated Heat-Sink Design With Blue LED Light Pumps
Hifonics Blue Illuminated Logo
Maxxsonics Illuminated "M" End Panel Logo
Heavy-Duty Ultra-Fi™ MOSFETS
Highly Efficient Super D-Class Amplifier Circuitry With Oversized MOSFET Output
Fully Adjustable Accu-Cross™ Crossovers
±18dB Variable Bass Equalization @ 45Hz
180° Variable Phase Control (15 to 35Hz)
Dash-Mountable Bass Remote Control Included
Variable 24dB Subsonic Filter
Brutus Pulse Wave Modulated MOSFET EXVP (Exponential Vari-Power Supply)
Twin-Turbo Torroid Coil Design
HSMD Hifonics Surface Mount Design
Balance Line Inputs for our 18-Volt Line Drivers
RCA Line Output for Amplifier Daisy Chaining
Gold Oversized 2-Gauge Power Connectors
2000-Watt x 1 RMS @ 1-Ohm

My install kit is Earthquake Sound AK-5000 Complete Amplifier Installation Kit Triple Gold Plated 5000 Watts/ 4-Gauge

80ft High- Power Cables for Amps, Speakers, and Head Unit
Over 20 Gold Plated terminals, connectors, screws and ties.
Red Power Wire: 17ft (5.18m); 4-Gauge
Black Ground Wire: 3ft (0.9m); 4-Gauge
Speaker Wire: 20ft (6.1m); 16-Gauge

I cant remember the brands but im pretty sure i got an SPL 2 farad capacitor and 12 gauge speaker wire.

I also got a dual 12 inch vented sub enclouser
Air-Space is 3.40 Cu. Ft.
Mounting Depth is 15"
DIMENSIONS: 36" Wide x 16.25" Deep x 13.25" High

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Hi, I go to college in Austin, but my parents live in an area right outside of Houston called the Woodlands. I talked to them only briefly after the storm, and they said they were fine and had tons of supplies but no power. Now I can’t seem to reach them on their cell phone either and I’m starting to get worried – it’s been two days that I haven’t heard anything. Does anyone know someone in that area? I just wanted to get some information on how everyone is holding up in the Woodlands, I hate not knowing! If you could let me know what you’ve heard, that would be great!

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1 or 2? 3 and 4 are letters C & D, but its not 3 or 4. Is it one or 2? PLease help, I’m leaning towards 2…
Now that I hear that, I believe it IS three; wow. Dumb me, haha. Thanks!

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is 09 an odd year..in the middle of summer, its cloudy, rainy and cold..is california due for a big earthquake? if so, i will want not to be in the usa..summer time is the time to be hot..

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Me and my boyfriend always argue about it! He says they have liittle wheels at the bottom which helps them not break, and i say they dont! who’s right?

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Which four statements are true regarding the San Andreas Fault?
A. The San Andreas Fault is located in California.
B. Some segments of the fault have a slow, gradual movement resulting in little noticeable seismic activity.
C. Stick-slip motion along the fault produces the largest earthquakes.
D. Movement along the fault is occurring at a rate of about 1 or 2 inches a day.
E. The earthquake activity around Parkfield has been very regular since the mid 1800′s.

Which two statements below regarding moment magnitude are true?
A. Moment magnitude is the most accurate way of measuring small earthquakes.
B. Moment magnitude is never as accurate as Richter magnitude.
C. Moment magnitude can be verified by two independent methods.
D. Moment magnitude can be calculated using very long seismic waves.
E. The largest moment magnitude ever identified was a 8.5.

Which three statements are true regarding the Earth’s interior?
A. The core of the earth is iron-rich.
B. The outer core is hotter than the inner core.
C. The mantle comprises the largest portion of the earth.
D. Lower mantle rocks are very hot and capable of very gradual flow.
E. The asthenosphere is a very soft layer in the core.

Which three statements are true regarding earthquakes?
A. Most earthquakes happen along faults.
B. Earthquakes are vibrations of Earth produced by the slow release of energy.
C. Earthquakes are quite rare, occuring only several times a year.
D. Energy from an earthquake radiates out in all directions.
E. The epicenter is located on the surface directly above the focus.

Multiple Answer
Which three statements below are true regarding a tsunami?
A. Tsunami are just really big tidal waves.
B. Most tsunami result from displacement of the seafloor at an underwater fault zone.
C. Tsunami are hard to detect in the open ocean due to their slow speed.
D. A possible warning of a tsunami is the rapid withdrawal of water from beaches.
E. A tsunami slows and gain height as it nears land.

How many 5.o earthquakes would it take to release the same amount of energy as one 8.0 earthquake?

A. 32
B. 1,000
C. 32,000
D. 1,000,000
E. 32,000,000

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Maybe in a HP supercell, the tornado could suck in a lot of rain drops, that it makes the tornado primarily composed of rain. Would that make it a water spout, or would it still be a tornado?
I thought so. Matt V, you will be given best answer later on.

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ANOTHER earthquake In Turkey

I know that the Earth is constantly having earthquakes here and there but i’m talking about the ones that killed LOADS of people the past few months.

Wasn’t there an earthquake in Taiwan LAST WEEK?

WTF

R.I.P to all the people that have lost their lives.

Can someone give me a scientific answer?

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1. Who created the original theory of the Earth fixed in space? (1 point)
Galileo
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
2. Who published a book stating that the Sun, not the Moon, was the center of the universe? (1 point)
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
Newton
3. How did Copernicus prove his theory? (1 point)
Logical thinking
Rules of geometry
Pictures
a and b
4. Why did church officials claim that Copernicus was wrong? (1 point)
Because they proved him wrong with scientific experimentation
Because Copernicus was found to be insane
Because the Bible said that Joshua commanded the Sun to remain still
The church officials did not claim that he was wrong
5. Why did Martin Luther call Copernicus a fool? (1 point)
Because he wanted others to believe the biblical answer for the universe
Because Copernicus was found to be insane
Because no one believed Copernicus’ findings
Because he did not believe in the universe
6. Who observed the movement of the planet Mars and concluded that Copernicus was correct? (1 point)
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
7. Who famously improved upon the telescope and, therefore, was able to prove Copernicus correct? (1 point)
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
8. Who was born in England, studied to be a mathematician, and made three very important discoveries? (1 point)
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
9. What did Newton discover was actually a mix of colors?
(1 point)
water
heat
clouds
light
10. What did Newton prove caused different kinds of motion? (1 point)
gravity
light
earthquakes
the Sun

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I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 with 256 RAM.
I have both windows XP Prof. SP3 and Vista Ultimate.
When I try to play 3D-games (sims 2, NFS carbon, etc . . )
or use dreamscene, they run smoothly but after a while the screen will begin to shake like there’s an earthquake inside my monitor!!!
I try to adjust my card settings by reducing quality to the lowest but still no change!
I also updated to the latest drivers.
i just don’t know what to do anymore!!!!!
Please help me!

Computer Specs:
Inter Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHZ
2.0 GB RAM
Latest DirectX installed.
Screen resolution 1280×720 (Widescreen)

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Were you prepared by having food and water on hand?
Were you prepared to handle some of the clean up of the damage afterwards (water damage, trees)?
Were you told to evacuate and did you feel you were given enough time?
If not what would have been a good time?
Did you feel a sense of self responsibility or did you think the community should be taken care of by the govt?

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