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	Earthquake K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		Earthquakes occurring at boundaries of tectonic plates are called interplate earthquakes, while the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes.
		Some earthquakes are the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as extraction of minerals and fossil fuel from the Earth's crust, the removal or injection of fluids into the crust, reservoir-induced seismicity, massive explosions, and collapse of large buildings.
		Earthquakes have also been known to be caused by the removal of natural gas from subsurface deposits, for instance in the northern Netherlands.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/earthsciences/earthquake.html (3096 words)

	Earthquake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Events that occur at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent Events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes.
		Earthquakes, especially those that occur beneath oceans or seas, can give rise to tsunamis, either as a direct result of the deformation of the sea bed due to the earthquake, or as a result of submarine landslips or "slides" indirectly triggered by it.
		Earthquakes such as these, that are caused by human activity, are referred to by the term induced seismicity.
	earthquake.iqnaut.net (1434 words)

	Earthquake - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earthquakes occur where the stress resulting from the differential motion of these plates exceeds the strength of the crust.
		Most earthquakes are tectonic, but they also occur in volcanic regions and as the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as reservoir induced seismicity, mining and the removal or injection of fluids into the crust.
		Deep focus earthquakes, at depths of hundreds of kilometres, are possibly generated as subducted lithospheric material catastrophically undergoes a phase transition since at the pressures and temperatures present at such depth elastic strain cannot be supported.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Earthquake (2367 words)

	Zazizam.com : Education - Earthquake
		An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface.
		Large numbers of earthquakes occur on a daily basis on Earth, but the majority of them are detected only by seismometers and cause no damage.Most earthquakes occur in narrow regions around plate boundaries down to depths of a few tens of kilometres where the crust is rigid enough to support the elastic strain.
		Earthquakes such as these, that are caused by human activity, are referred to by the term induced seismicity.Another type of movement of the Earth is observed by terrestrial spectroscopy.
	www.zazizam.com /content/education/e/Earthquake.php (1761 words)

	Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A recently proposed theory suggests that some earthquakes may occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where one earthquake will trigger a series of earthquakes each triggered by the previous shifts on the fault lines, similar to aftershocks, but occurring years later, and with some of the later earthquakes as damaging as the early ones.
		Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th Century, the half dozen large earthquakes in New Madrid in 1811-1812, and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East and in the Mojave Desert.
		Some earthquakes have anthropogenic sources, such as extraction of minerals and fossil fuel from the Earth's crust, the removal or injection of fluids into the crust, reservoir-induced seismicity, massive explosions, and collapse of large buildings.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Earthquakes (3065 words)

	2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The earthquake itself (apart from the tsunami) was felt as far away as Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore and the Maldives.
		The earthquake is estimated to have resulted in an oscillation of the Earth's surface of about 20–30 cm (8–12 in), equivalent to the effect of the tidal forces caused by the Sun and Moon.
		The deadliest earthquakes since 1900 were the Tangshan, China, earthquake of 1976, in which at least 255,000 were killed; the earthquake of 1927 in Xining, Qinghai, China (200,000); the Great Kanto earthquake which struck Tokyo in 1923 (143,000); and the Gansu, China, earthquake of 1920 (200,000).
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake (6461 words)

	Shaanxi Summary
		The northern Chinese province of Shaanxi (Shensi, Shanxi) borders on Gansu and Ningxia in the west; on Inner Mongolia in the west; on Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei, following the course of the Huang (Yellow) River, in the east; and on Sichuan in the south.
		Shaanxi consists of nine prefecture-level cities and the city of Xi'an.
		Nearly all the people in Shaanxi are comprised of ethnic Han Chinese, with pockets of Hui population in the north western region (adjacent to Ningxia).
	www.bookrags.com /Shaanxi (1063 words)

	Benfield Hazard Research Centre
		This earthquake in central eastern China is approximated to be of magnitude 8 on the surface-wave magnitude scale Ms.
		The Shaanxi earthquake is considered to have led to the largest ever loss of life from an earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
		These two earthquakes and the 1920 Haiyuan event seemed to indicate that seismic energy had been released progressively from east to west along the length of the Haiyuan fault.
	www.benfieldhrc.org /activities/issues6/pages/3hist_eq.htm (284 words)

	AIRCurrents : 2006
		The 1556 earthquake, however, occurred in the Weihe Basin, which is an intraplate environment much like the New Madrid Seismic Zone of the U.S. The Weihe Basin is located south of the Ordos fault block, a micro-plate in northern China.
		The epicenter of the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is in an area of moderately high seismicity.
		However, the risk of earthquakes in the region remains high and significant losses are possible due the massive scale of new development in China's population centers.
	www.air-worldwide.com /_public/html/air_currentsitem.asp?ID=872 (762 words)

	Earth Quakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earthquakes produce various adverse effects to the inhabitants of seismically active regions.
		About 800 earthquakes of magnitudes 5 to 6 occur annually worldwide, in comparison with about 50,000 earthquakes of magnitudes 3 to 4, and only about one earthquake of magnitudes 8 to 9.
		The most famous US earthquake is the one that shook the area of San Francisco in 1906, causing extensive damage and resulting in the loss of 700 lives.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /nature_gallery/earthquakes.html (1695 words)

	Lijiang Earthquake Relief Project - Moving Earth & Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Earthquakes are seemingly random and arbitrary in their destruction, cutting through a row of houses, yet leaving others unscathed.
		This century more than 610,000 people have been killed in China from earthquakes, but the most devastating earthquake in history occurred in 1556, when some 830,000 people were killed in an earthquake in Shaanxi, China.
		Even though the earthquake that struck Lijiang was stronger than the Kobe earthquake, more powerful than an atomic bomb and the most serious in China for eight years, the disaster gained little media coverage internationally.
	expage.com /page/lijiang07 (556 words)

	Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions — Infoplease.com
		earthquake, fires, and Atlantic tsunami leveled Lisbon and was felt as far away as southern France and North Africa; 70,000 killed.
		earthquake reversed the course of the Mississippi River.
		earthquake measuring 6.8 in magnitude killed nearly 25,000, injured 15,000, and left at least 400,000 homeless.
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	Earthquake - Wikipedia Mirror
		These oscillations of the earth are either due to the deformation of the Earth by tide caused by the Moon or the Sun, or other phenomena.
		Image:WTC seismogram.jpg Some earthquakes are the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as extraction of minerals and fossil fuel from the Earth's crust, the removal or injection of fluids into the crust, reservoir-induced seismicity, massive explosions, and collapse of large buildings.
		Image:SanFranHouses06.JPG Image:EarthquakeFreewayCa1989.jpg Earthquakes occur on a daily basis around the world, most detected only by seismometers and causing no damage.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Earthquake (2891 words)

	Earthquakes
		Earthquakes are the tumbling, shaking or sudden shock(s) of the earth’s surface, the Earth's natural means of releasing stress, and the shaking of the earth’s plates.
		Some of the biggest earthquakes were the following: the earthquake in Shaanxi, China counted 830,000 deaths during an earthquake.
		Although a great deal is known about where earthquakes are likely to occur, there is currently no reliable way to predict the days or months when an event will occur in any specific location.
	library.thinkquest.org /04oct/01879/earth.htm (421 words)

	The Shaanxi Earthquake >> earthquakesurvivaltactics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1556 shanks earthquake the shanks earthquake occurred on the morning of 14 February in a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia the most.
		An earthquake that struck the shanks, shanks, and he nan provinces of china on.
		Researchers believe surface waves from the large earthquake affected geysers by altering water and steam pressure in underground systems feeding the features, he said.
	www.earthquakesurvivaltactics.com /the-shaanxi-earthquake.html (804 words)

	List of earthquakes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a list of significant earthquakes as listed by the USGS.
		The 30 second long earthquake destroyed 95% of the city, located 30 km form the epicentre.
		Somoza mishandling of earthquake aid has been cited as a contributing factor to the Sandinista revolution; devastated largest city in Nicaragua (Managua)
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/List_of_earthquakes (689 words)

	Earthquake
		Large earthquakes however can cause serious destruction and massive loss of life through a variety of agents of damage, including fault rupture, vibratory ground motion (shaking), inundation (tsunami, seiche, or dam failure), various kinds of permanent ground failure (liquefaction, landslides), and fire or a release of hazardous materials e.g gas leaks or petrol leaks.
		The first simple classification of earthquake intensity was devised by Domenico Pignataro in the 1780s.
		In the 1930s, California seismologist Charles F. Richter devised a simple numerical scale to describe the relative sizes of earthquakes in Southern California.
	articles.gourt.com /en/Earthquake (3249 words)

	shaanxi - Ask.com Web Search
		Shaanxi Province is situated in the center of China.
		The deadliest earthquake of all time is believed to have occurred on Jan. 24, 1556, in Shaanxi (Shensi) Province, China — 830,000 were...
		Shaanxi consists of nine prefecture-level cities and the city of Xi'an.The prefecture-level cities:...
	search.ask.com /web?q=shaanxi (270 words)

	Shaanxi Earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Therefore, in Chinese historical record, this earthquake is often referred as "the Big Earthquake at Jiajing reign"(嘉靖大地震).
		While it was the most deadly earthquake and the sixth deadliest natural disaster in history, there have been earthquakes with higher magnitudes.
		^ This quotation is from a translation of a Chinese study of historical earthquake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake (657 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: The Story Behind The News
		The story began with a effort by the Shaanxi government to survey the extent of AIDS/HIV in the area during late 2000.
		The Shaanxi provincial government immediately ordered a thorough investigation on how the matter was leaked out.
		It was only later that we learned that the Shaanxi provincial government ordered the Xian City public security bureau to bring in 8 police officers (including one who happened to be Du Guangli's classmate in middle school) in a special case squad.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20060203_1.htm (1489 words)

	Worst Earthquake Ever? - Natural Disaster Forum
		The Shaanxi Earthquake in China in 1556 killed 830,000 people.
		But at the same time you have to take into account this was one of the first earthquakes recorded as well.
		It also probably had a lot to do with the earthquake hitting China in a year where they were mostly unheard of.
	www.naturaldisasterforum.com /showthread.php?t=11 (817 words)

	1556 Shaanxi earthquake - China-related Topics AA-AD - China-Related Topics
		1556 Shaanxi earthquake - China-related Topics AA-AD - China-Related Topics
		More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected http://www.kepu.ac.cn/english/quake/ruins/rns03.html.
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	Feed24: New Method For Dating Ancient Earthquakes Through Cave Evidence Developed By Israeli Researchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Feed24: New Method For Dating Ancient Earthquakes Through Cave Evidence Developed By Israeli Researchers
		New Method For Dating Ancient Earthquakes Through Cave Evidence Developed By Israeli Researchers
		A new method for dating destructive past earthquakes, based on evidence remaining in caves has been developed by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Geological Survey of Israel.
	www.feed24.com /go?item_id=8037306 (118 words)

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