Anon., An Account of the Late Dreadful Earth-Quake in the Island of Mevis, St. Christophers, &C (1690)

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Carla Gardina Pestana ◽  
Sharon V. Salinger
Keyword(s):  
Earth Quake

Fukushima Two Year Processing Update

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Denton ◽  
Josh Mertz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Earth Quake ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Radioactive Materials ◽  
Nuclear Station ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Perfect Storm

On March 11, 2011, now two years ago, the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan earth quake, Tohoku, hit off the Fukushima coast of Japan. This was one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history and the most powerful one known to have hit Japan. The ensuing tsunami devastated a huge area resulting in some 25,000 persons confirmed dead or missing. The perfect storm was complete when the tsunami then found the four-reactor, Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Station directly in its destructive path. Some 2 million people were evacuated from a fifty mile radius of the area and evaluation and cleanup began. A tremendous effort has been made, by many nationalities, since this time to restore this damaged plant and surrounding area and to return a great deal of the residents to their homes and farm lands. While most of the outcome of this unprecedented natural and manmade disaster was negative, both in Japan and worldwide, there have been some extremely valuable lessons learned and new emergency recovery technologies and systems developed to cope with the aftermath of this disaster. This paper describes new technology developed to selectively remove radioactive materials dangerous to workers, local citizens, and the natural environment from seawater used to cool the damaged reactors at Fukushima. As always, the mother of invention is necessity.

scholarly journals EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF VISUALI ZATION METHODS OF EARTH QUAKE CATALOGUE MAPS

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Pődor ◽  
Marta Kiszely
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Earth Quake ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Earthquake Catalogue ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Released Energy ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Visualization Techniques

The aim of the study is to find possible solutions to represent earthquake catalogue data and design maps which can help non-professionals to identify those places where earthquakes occurred frequently. The goal is to visualize all available catalogue data sets in a complex way on a single map, displaying the long-term recurrence times of earthquakes. Therefore, raw data and aggregated data were combined with different cartographic visualization techniques to test the applicability of earthquake maps. Preliminary research demonstrates that aggregation can improve the process of retrieving information from earthquake maps and 3D visualization is useful to find the places of earthquakes of highest magnitude. A second result is that 3D visualization is not effective in the comparison of quantities of released energy and the number of earthquakes.

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