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This is our new project, the one that is due on April 18th.  Welcome to Team Myer#41
 * Usernames || Names || Emails || What our roles are in this project ||
 * KaitlinE5 || Kaitlin B || kbchased@gmail.com || What to do, to plan for an earthquake. ||
 * AbbyE5 || Abby S || abby_sisk@yahoo.com || What to do during an earthquake, if you're inside. ||
 * ArmandoTE6 || Armando T || joetrevino18@yahoo.com || What to do if an earthquake hits a rural area. ||
 * PeaceLoveIrish || Marianne M. || M.Marianne16@gmx.us || what to do during an earthquake, if your outside. ||
 * dancingqueen4 || Morgan B. || mrgn.barnett@gmail.com || What has the state done to prepare. ||
 * jacobe4 || Jacob Mejia || mizutigers@aol.com || What should Missouri do to the older buildings to help limit destruction ||

In the Table Above put your Name, Username & Team Name Suggestion ( We have Chosen A Name for the Team Thanks to alll Who Gave their suggestions)
 * ~ Name ||~ Username ||~ Team Name Suggestion ||
 * Morgan B. || Dancingqueen4 || Myer#41 ||
 * *Marianne M. || PeaceLoveIrish ||  ||
 * Kaitlin B. || KaitlinE5 || Myer#41 ||
 * Abby S. || AbbyE5th || Monkeys ||
 * Brandon R || Spiderpig85 || Mormonkeysisbetter. ||
 * *Kayla M. || kayla.morris || Myer#41 ||
 * Jacob M || jacobe4 || Myer#41 ||
 * Armando T. || ArmandoTE6 || Myer#41 ||
 * Dylan M. || dylanME6 || Myer#41 ||

Has Missouri prepared for earthquakes?[|Missouri earthquake plans]

Earthquake Simulator Link: - http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/interactives/makeaquake.html

Tectonic plates are sections of the lithoshpere that are divided by fault lines. The convection currents in the mantle cause the plates to move in either convergent, divergant, or transform faults.

Japan also prepares itself by stalking up on water and food, first aid kits, equipping themselves with radios, frequent broadcast. Earthquake Readiness

Drive Question: Using what happened in Japan how can we help Missouri improve our emergency preparedness in the even of a geological disaster?

We can have drills every month so we can get better and faster at getting to safer places if we have an earthquake.

There could be more censers stuck into the ground near the fault so we can predict the earthquakes, and find out easily when they are might happen so we can have more time to prepare.

I Think that we should use animoto to make our presentation because it makes animated characters say what you type instead of having to read it yourself it reads it to you. Plus you can use images to show what your saying so that people can see it visually also. -Jacob Mejia Missouri is near a minor line We don't have very many earthquakes, and no tsunamis. Thousands are suspected to be in Japan Japan has shock absorbers to decrease damage. The shock absorbers in Japan did their job well against the earthquake. The nuclear meltdown in Japan will not affect the United States the meltdown only affected a 20 mile radius in Japan. The worst damage done in missouri is a Cyclone in 1900 causing 6,000 deaths. More than ten thousand people have died. Salten Sea is where many faults are located. The Salten Sea is 31 miles long and 9 miles wide. Some large faults can be seen from the air. Very active with earthquakes near the Salten Sea. There are 3 kinds of earthquakes. You can tell when the last big earthquake happened by the rings in the faults sediment. Theres primary and secondary waves in a Tsunami. Animals can feel earthquakes before humans. A fault is a rupture in the Earth. The sudden lurch of plates causes earthquakes. You can measure earthquakes by looking at the sea floor. Faults create millions of trimmers per year. Larger the fault line, the size of a possible earthquake is larger. Extension earthquakes usually occur in the ocean(water) but can effect land. The looser and thicker the soil is, more energy will be released. An average of 200 years is between each big earthquake in an area. Earthquakes can strike at any time in the day or night and when they do strike they do it without any warning. || Will the radiation off the reactors affect the USA? What is the worst damage ever done in MO? What is the most efficient protection? The exact amount of cost damage Our options to protect buildings. Cost it would take to outfit major buildings with shock absorbers What could the earth being off its axis 6 inches cause? What has america done to help out? Will there be another earthquake in Japan soon or in Missouri? || In case of an earthquake in missouri we have a cooling system ready if the earthquake affects the power plant. Question For Resreach: Are Missouri's Quakes different from Japan's? From our research, we can conclude that there is not very many powerful earthquakes in Missouri. Also that the earthquake in Japan doesn't have an effect on the New Madrid fault line. They see about 1 or 2 powerful earthquakes a year, and many many little quakes a year, probably once daily. Where do the majority of earthquakes occur on Earth? Most earthquakes occur along oceanic and continental plates. The earthquake in Japan won't effect American fault lines. Missouri doesn't have many powerful earthquakes. There are only a few ever recorded in Missouri history.
 * ~ Know ||~ Need to Know ||
 * I know Japan had 4 nuclear reactors exploded. || I don't know the radius of japan that is has affected. ||
 * Damage was done to nuclear reacters, (they overheated.)

What has America done to help out? We have Red Cross volunteers helping out and we have donated money to them. There is also ShelterBox which donates necessities to people all around the world that need them, like water and blankets, and even a tool kit.

If a major earthquake will ever hit missouri it would be a huge disaster especially in the rural parts of Missouri and the big cities such as jefferson city and Springfield. People should have the following in their house hold, a flashlight, a lot of water, canned food, and clothes. Missouri would probably be a great place or a common place because it has one of the strongest fault lines and it is rather large.

[|Powerful Japanese earthquake]

http://www.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/japan-earthquakeapril.jpg Image may be subject to copyright. If they built stronger buildings with better foundations and they made their concrete more secure then they wouldn't have to worry about this much damage being done to their city.

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shakeout/index.html Missouri Department of Natural Resources The state of Missouri is participating in the 'Great Central US Shakeout.' This is a country wide earthquake drill.

Resreach Urls and Embeds: - http://mizzouweekly.missouri.edu/archive/2011/32-24/fault-lines-cause-of-historic-quakes-in-japan-and-new-madrid-were-different-/index.php?utm_source=MizzouWeeklyFeed&utm_medium=Syndication&utm_campaign=MizzouWeeklyFeed - http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=593359 - http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/earthquakes/archive/quakedrill.dtl

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Most of the major earthquakes in the world occur at tectonic plate boundaries where land masses are colliding or pushing past one another. But in the middle of the country lurks a geological enigma near New Madrid, Missouri, that has produced some of the largest quakes on record for the United States but has yet to be fully explained by scientists. "It’s a big mystery," said geologist Eugene Schweig of the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied the area for 23 years. "New Madrid is about as far from a plate boundary as you can get." In 1811 and 1812, a swarm of at least three massive earthquakes struck near New Madrid, the largest of which exceeded a magnitude 8 and caused violent, damaging shaking in an area 10 times larger than did the 1906 earthquake. The quake was felt over an area of two million square miles — nearly two-thirds of the country. During the quakes, the ground rose and fell, trees were bent, deep cracks opened up in the ground, large landslides swept down hills, huge waves washed boats out of the Mississippi River and river banks, islands and sand bars gave way. Damage was widespread, but only a few people died thanks to the sparse population in what was then the Louisiana Territory but today is near the junction of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Were another magnitude 8 earthquake to strike the region today, the toll would be much, much higher. By analyzing deposits of sand that squirted out of the ground during past major quakes, Schweig and others estimate an average time between earthquakes of 500 years. But earthquakes are impossible to predict, and because scientists aren’t even sure why major quakes occur away from plate boundaries, it is even more difficult to estimate a probability for New Madrid. The USGS’s best estimate is that there is a seven to 10 percent chance of a major earthquake between magnitude 7.5 and 8 in the next 50 years. While the probability of a major quake on any given day in the New Madrid region is far less than that of the Bay Area in California, the potential for disaster if a quake does strike is greater due to the size of the area that could be violently shaken. Another factor is the lack of awareness and preparedness in the area. It is nearly impossible to live in the San Francisco or Los Angeles areas without knowing there is an earthquake hazard. Small quakes remind residents of that every few months or weeks. But 1812 was a long time ago, so earthquakes aren’t anywhere near the top of most people’s concerns in New Madrid. And most buildings in the area haven’t been retrofitted. "We have buildings that have been sitting around for 200 years," Schweig said. "It’s just bricks sitting on top of bricks. There are schools and police stations built like that." http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/five-us-earthqu/

The owner of a Tokyo ceramic shop checks his damaged wares following the earthquake. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/Getty Images) || How Japan Perpares: Yet the fact that only one person died is perhaps a tribute to how well prepared Japanese people are for dealing with the earthquakes which frequently hit their country. But experts predict that a massive earthquake will strike the capital Tokyo some time in the near future, and that - despite the best preparations - hundreds of thousands of buildings may collapse, and several thousand people could die. Last month in Tokyo, there was a scene of utter chaos. Rescue teams rushed in all directions, firing up their chainsaws. In front of them lay cars crushed under piles of rubble, and crumpled houses. Helicopters hovered over badly cracked buildings. The teams worked at speed, sawing holes in the collapsed walls, leaping in and bringing out casualties. Some seemed badly injured, some were unconscious. But the injuries were not real. This was Japan's National Disaster Prevention day, held every year to mark the great Kanto earthquake of 1923, which flattened Tokyo and killed more than 100,000 of its inhabitants. This year a million people took part in the exercise. The reason they take it so seriously is that earthquakes occur all the time in this geologically unstable country - and the capital city is well overdue for a big one. The problem is, according to Professor Keiji Doi from Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute, there's no way of knowing when it will happen. "The next big earthquake in the Kanto area is very imminent according to our history of these earthquakes. But we can't tell the exact day or time. It may occur tomorrow, or next week or next month or next year, but we can't say the exact time or date," he said. So the only thing the inhabitants of Tokyo can do is prepare. And they do. Every day Kuroda Masayuki from the city's Fire Department gives guided tours of its Life Safety Learning Centre to groups of school children. He explains the city's unlucky location - right above the point where three great continental plates meet and grind against each other. Then they get to feel what a major earthquake is really like on the centre's earthquake simulator. It is a milder version of the great Kobe earthquake of 1995. All the same, the children are thrown around the mocked-up kitchen. Furniture - fortunately made of foam - tumbles on top of them. They are supposed to make sure a door is open, and turn off the gas, but all they can do is cower under the table, with cushions on their heads. Even on a simulator it is an unnerving sensation. []
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Strongest earthquake in Japan’s history: 2,000 more bodies found in Miyagi Prefecture, population 2.3 million per the Kyoda News Agency. More are washing in in other areas. 10,000 people still missing in Minamisanriku alone. Millions without water, food or heating in very cold conditions in the Northeastern coastal area. Japan stock market suffered huge losses; Nikkei down 225, a 4.8% drop to 9,760. Japan’s central bank infuses a $15 trillion (US 183.8 billion). Reactor #2 at Fukushima explodes creating a partial meltdown (see previous blog). Numerous trains and busloads of people still missing. Two million homes without electricity. 1.4 million without water. Only 10% of emergency relief supplys so far have made it to stricken areas. Body bags and coffins have ran out, more being shipped from other countries. No or rationed gas except for emergency service vehicles in most of the affected areas. 100,000 soldiers on the ground assisting from Japan alone. 10s of thousands of foreign soldiers and relief workers arriving daily, transportation difficult. Japan’s most severe crisis in 65 years since World War Two. Approximately 35 US Billion in damage so far. A volcano on Kyushu resumed eruption after a couple of weeks of no activity Here is a link to real time earthquake statistics map by Texas Tech University,TTU: []
 * Monday 3/14/11:
 * Hospital in Minamisanrikucho lost 2/3 of it’s patients.

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3/31/11 What is the difference between fault and a plate boundary? A plate boundary is simply where two plates meet, whereas a fault is a break in the rock in which each side of the rock is moving a different direction. So the New Madrid fault line is just a break of the rock in the middle of the North American Plate.



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