earthquake help?

Question

Hey anyone knows any good sites to get info on” the effects of earthquakes on the environment and people” also long term and short term relief measures…
Hope to be hearing from you…….

hey collegebutterfly thanks a million for your help got just what i wanted........ and kmatty thank u too but the last part is about volcanoes not earthquakes.... hey but at least u lent a helping hand......... thanks again everbody

Answer 1

Try this site:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
or
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/
or
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/historic_eqs.php

I live quite close to a major fault line in California, and have survived my share of quakes. You may want to do more research on the big earthquake that hit San Francisco in the early 1900s and the big one that hit Coalinga, CA in the early 1980s. Both cities suffered loss of buildings and lives. As far as short-term relief measures, some hotels that survive quakes offer to put people up until they get their lives back together and things like that. And as far as short-term effects on people, most people are emotionally shaken up but get over it with time.
I personally as working in a 2-story mall when an earthquake hit, I was on the second floor and it was scary, but what was worse was that a little old lady was shopping in my store and she didn't even know what an earthquake was, and I was the one who saved her life. I felt really good that day and hope that you don't have to go through one, especially in the conditions I was in, which was a structurally unsound building! Walls were waving, the escalators were wobbling and rattling, light fixtures fell from store ceilings, injuring people, and my husband was hit by a falling ceiling tile at the store he was in, and was knocked out. We were pretty lucky, and amazed! That quake hit a town an hour away from where we were, and the mall could have collapsed, and it was shut down until everything was fixed.

Answer 2

go to search on your computer, internet, put it in and check out the listings. Good luck

Answer 3

The effects of earthquakes on society reach farther than the destruction that they cause and the fear that they place on the population. As a result of the fear that they cause, society has come up with many ways to protect against the damage that is possible during earthquakes. Warning systems, research, and advances in engineering have done an amazing job of giving people the resources necessary to survive an earthquake. Warning systems and research are often found in the areas that are most prone to this sort of disaster. In the following paragraphs we will discuss how society has found ways to maintain the safety of people during earthquakes and how this affects other parts of society. We will also discuss how people can protect themselves against earthquakes and what the consequences are of the government warning of possible seismic activity in a community.

How people perceive earthquakes has a huge impact on the precautionary measures that can be taken to reduce the possibilities of injury, property damage, and loss of life. Protecting yourself with earthquake insurance, building structures with seismic activity in mind, having earthquake drills, and being prepared with emergency supplies can have a great affect on how people survive an earthquake. Ignorance of what can be done to protect yourself from an earthquake can result in unnecessary damage and/or pain and suffering. In the chart we can see that people will often not take precautionary measures unless they have been greatly affected in the past by an earthquake. Because many people are in denial about the importance of precautions in the case of earthquakes, damage is done that could have been prevented. The survey that was done shows that when residents that lived along a fault line were asked of disadvantages of living in their place of residence, 44.2 percent could not think of any problems and out of the remaining people, nobody mentioned earthquakes (Berlin 68). Unfortunately it seems as if people are unaware of the great danger that earthquakes present. According to this survey, even when people do realize the dangers all they seem to do for precaution is pray. This is not the most effective way of protecting against earthquake damage. This lackadaisical attitude toward the effects of earthquakes can be seen in a summary of earthquakes hazard survey in San Mateo California. (read more at http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/earthquakes.htm)



This site is really cool for general earthquake FAQs
http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/public/follies.shtml



The effects a volcanic eruption can have on people and the climate are numerous: from respiratory problems to eye irritation, acid rain, skin irritation, property and crop destruction, earthquakes, tsunamis, and ballistic projectiles, just to name a few. Just as important are the worldwide and enduring consequences that volcanic eruptions can have on the atmosphere and its composition.
While lava flows can have devastating immediate effects, ash fall reaches the widest swath of area and thus yields the most damage in the immediate sense. Heavy ash fall may result in the collapse of roofs and high levels of respirable ash in the air (ash particles less than 10 microns in diameter) (USGS). The collapse of roofs can be deadly for people within buildings, but falling ash is not yet known to result in serious injury or disease from inhalation. Ash and coarser particles inhaled from within a hot, dense pyroclastic flow or surge, however, almost always results in death from burns or asphyxiation. People exposed to ash fall and subsequent ash-filled air commonly experience various eye, nose, and throat symptoms. Based on historical eruptions, short-term exposures to ash, however, are not known to pose a significant health hazard. Long-term health effects of volcanic ash have not yet been demonstrated.
Two of the more recent volcanic events are the eruptions of Mt. St. Helens and the Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat. In the case of Mt. St. Helens, exposures to the ash and free silica by the general population in the affected communities of eastern Washington were of limited duration, and "silicosis was not considered a potential threat to the general population. People who worked in areas of high concentrations of respirable ash (loggers removing timber near the volcano or agricultural workers in central Washington) were advised to take protective action" (Symonds). (read more at http://www.columbia.edu/~dha2103/Climatic%20and%20Societal%20Effects.html)

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