Inferences regarding initiation of oceanic crust formation from the U.S. East Coast margin and conjugate South Atlantic margins

In late 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the U.S., causing much suffering and devastation. Those who could have easily helped Sandy's victims had a duty to do so. But was this a rightfully enforceable duty of justice, or a nonenforceable duty of beneficence? The answer to this question is often thought to depend on the kind of help offered: the provision of immediate bodily services is not enforceable; the transfer of material resources is. I argue that this double standard is unjustified, and defend a version of what I call “social samaritanism.” On this view, within political communities, the duty to help the needy—whether via bodily services or resource transfers—is always an enforceable demand of justice, except when the needy are reckless; across independent political communities, it is always a matter of beneficence. I defend this alternative double standard, and consider its implications for the case of Sandy.

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Predicting Temperature Shifts off the U.S. East Coast

Eos ◽

10.1029/2016eo054307 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 97 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Stanley

Keyword(s):

East Coast ◽

Relative Importance ◽

Ocean Temperature ◽

Middle Atlantic Bight ◽

Atmospheric Processes ◽

Middle Atlantic ◽

New Research ◽

The U.S

New research reveals the relative importance of oceanic and atmospheric processes in year-to-year changes in ocean temperature along the Middle Atlantic Bight.

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Towards an operational nowcast/forecast system for the U.S. east coast

Modern Approaches to Data Assimilation in Ocean Modeling - Elsevier Oceanography Series ◽

10.1016/s0422-9894(96)80016-x ◽

1996 ◽

pp. 347-376 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

F. Aikman ◽

G.L. Mellor ◽

T. Ezer ◽

D. Sheinin ◽

P. Chen ◽

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Keyword(s):

East Coast ◽

Forecast System ◽

The U.S

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Crustal structure of the southeast flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, from seismic refraction measurements

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ◽

10.1785/bssa0700041149 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 1149-1159

Author(s):

John J. Zucca ◽

David P. Hill

Keyword(s):

Oceanic Crust ◽

Crustal Structure ◽

Seismic Refraction ◽

Kilauea Volcano ◽

Geological Survey ◽

Pn Velocity ◽

Kīlauea Volcano ◽

Volcanic Pile ◽

Rift Zones ◽

The U.S

abstract In November 1976, the U.S. Geological Survey, in conjunction with the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, established a 100-km-long seismic refraction line normal to the southeast coast of Hawaii across the submarine flank of Kilauea Volcano. Interpretation of the data suggests that the oceanic crust dips about 2° toward the island underneath the volcanic pile. The unreversed Pn velocity is 7.9 km/ sec with crustal velocities varying strongly along the profile. Profiles across the rift zones of Kilauea suggest that the velocity in the rifts is higher than the velocity in the surrounding extrusive rocks and that the velocity in the southwest rift (∼6.5 km/sec) is lower than the velocity in the east rift (∼7.0 km/sec). The rift boundaries seem to dip away from the rift such that a large part of the volcanic pile is composed of the higher velocity core of riftzone rock.

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