Posts under ‘Tsunamis and Earthquakes’

Dear mouse,
Washington Postreports 30,000 dead in the recent earthquake in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
It’s been almost more than a year that I’ve researched about earthquakes and tsunamis but mainly centered in Indonesia.
The following table shows the history of strongest earthquakes in Pakistan-India, as to the date/year, region, intensity and fatalities.

Date
 
Location
 
Intensity
 
Fatalities

893 – [...]

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The reason for the inability to detect the killer tsunami in Indonesia and other Asian countries recently was the absence of an early warning system in the place where it struck. The experts said that there was no tsunami incident in that region so they deemed it not necessary installing one [...]

Dear Mouse,
Sales people forecast their sales by looking at the past trends. Financial analysts make use of the past performance of the business in order to graph their expectations.
In all these exercises, the statistics are utilized to tell a story to come up with another story.But how do you predict calamities? Can [...]

Dear mouse,

If you live in the coastal area or vacationing in some beach resort,take note of these signs for tsunami.

by WILLIAM SHERMANDAILY

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Five to 10 minutes before it strikes, a tsunami usually gives a powerful warning that’s hard to miss
from the shore. It’s not a roiling wave coming in, but the reverse [...]

Dear mouse,
Richter scale measures the intensity of earthquakes and categorizes them to great to very minor earthquakes. (see my previous post.
Bayi sent me these data :
The Richter Scale measuring earthquakes.
0 to 1.9 Can be detected only by a seismograph.
2 to 2.9 Hanging objects may vibrate or swing.
3 to 3.9 Comparable to [...]