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Deen Altawil
Professor Robert Franklin
Geography 180
October, 11, 2017
Shaking Grounds of Mother Nature

Recently we have been exposed to many natural disasters. Mother Nature has been unpredictable and cannot be stopped. We have witness many hurricanes, bizarre weather changes, and recent earthquakes. All of this impact of Mother Nature left a tremendous effect in our lives. My research paper focuses on “Earthquakes”. How do we define earthquakes?. According to Oxford dictionary “Earthquake is a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action”. Earthquakes always been considered as one of many epitome of natural disasters that changes many lives, earthquakes causes …show more content…

The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:30am,the quake was caused by the sudden rupture of a previously undocumented blind thrust fault, it hit a magnitude of 6.7, the earthquake was so strong parts of Los Angeles area, Ventura area, Las Vegas, and San Diego felt the shake of the earthquake, there were many fatalities about 60 deaths, and 2000 injuries. This earthquake caused widespread damage that included damages to freeways, apartment buildings collapsing, gas stations caught on fire, and thousands of homes were severely damaged. It was so awful it took billions of dollars to repair damages and to rebuild. The San Francisco occurred on April, 18, 1906 at 5:12 am. This earthquake magnitude was at 7.8. This earthquake was the greatest devastation of all time. More than 3,000 people died, the city of San Francisco was about 80% damaged. Not only the city suffered this massive earthquake but the city has to deal with dozen of aftershock. There were many massive buildings on fire, the damages was horrific that it cost billions to rebuild the city. It was named one of the worst tragedy that humankind ever experienced. The Northridge Earthquake

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