Sunday, May 1, 2011

2.2 questions

  1. A disturbance in the earths crust
  2. movement of a mass of rock or the earths crust, eathquakes and rain
  3. Construction of roads and rails on hillsides
  4. They are mesured in magnitude and richterscale 
  5. Intra plate tension
  6. On average every 15 months
  7. Killing 13 people and injuring 120 and 35 000 damaged
  8. Landslides are movements on the earths crust while eathquakes are movements under the earhen earthquake under the ths crust
  9. A really really really big/ strong wave
  10. Earthquake, movement of the oceans bottom, landslide under the ocean
  11. Normal water level, then earthquake under the ocean, waves move deeper into the ocean more rapidly and then reaching 800 kph tsunami hits the beach.
  12. Shake, drop and roar
  13. An 9.3 earthquake
  14. 23 stations and it took 20 minutes to get picked up
  15. As it enters shallow water it is pushed up slowing it down but increasing its height
  16. They responded by making the tsunami warning system in the indian ocean
  17. He is a wollongong university geoscience proffessor and warned that new zealands alpine fault line could cause a tsunami to hit NSW
  18. a) 10*N, 95*E     b) i) Roughly 3 hours    ii) 7 hours     iii)  5 hours     iv) 10 hours

  19. A yellow sign which has a tsunami on it and bellow that it would say beware of tsunami and high waves, listed for roaring and strong currents.

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