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It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods.
Or this is a 14-year-old kid in Chile who made a system that detects earthquakes and publishes on Twitter.
High-ranking males provide an enormous amount of comfort in the group, and they go to places where there are earthquakes or hurricanes and they provide comfort.
Created after the post-election riots in Kenya in 2008, this crisis-mapping website and community is actually able to crowdsource and target the delivery of better rescue services to people trapped under the rubble, whether it's after the earthquakes in Haiti, or more recently in Italy.
For example, earthquakes never kill people, but collapse of the buildings kill people.
If you took the difference between today's image and yesterday's image, you'd see much of the world news — you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
Governments are using it for border security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes.
Over nearly all of Earth's history, threats have come from nature — disease, earthquakes, asteroids and so forth — but from now on, the worst dangers come from us.
In 1900, there was about half a million people who died every year from natural disasters: floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruption, whatever, droughts.
So as soon as I see a question about things I'm afraid of, which might be earthquakes, other religions, maybe I'm afraid of terrorists or sharks, anything that makes me feel, assume you're going to exaggerate the problem.
Unlike earthquakes, hurricanes or volcanic eruptions, an asteroid impact can be precisely predicted and prevented.
The houses we build do not survive severe earthquakes.
Where there are emergencies like storms and earthquakes, when the electricity goes out, when safe water is not available, breast milk can keep babies fed and hydrated.
Most of the earthquakes and volcanoes are in the sea, at the bottom of the sea.
So here, you've got this valley with this incredible alien landscape of pillars and hot springs and volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, inhabited by these very strange animals that live only on chemical energy coming out of the ground.
And then there's earthquakes, and then volcanic eruptions, on the order of one every five years, that completely wipes the area out.
And what we tend to see is a convergence of multiple kinds of risks: income inequality, poverty, youth unemployment, different issues around violence, even exposure to droughts, cyclones and earthquakes.
Today, we no longer rely on pots to identify seismic events, but earthquakes still offer a unique challenge to those trying to track them.
So why are earthquakes so hard to anticipate, and how could we get better at predicting them?
To answer that, we need to understand some theories behind how earthquakes occur.
Today, many of our most reliable clues come from long-term forecasting, related to when and where earthquakes have previously occurred.
We know that the tsunamis, the earthquakes, and the things that we've experienced in the entire record of humankind history can't really quite get around the kind of disaster that this represented for the Earth.
Who cannot be touched by compassion when we see the terrible horrors of the results of war, or famine, or earthquakes, or tsunamis?
Where was the world acting together to deal with the problems that they knew arose from the potential for earthquakes, as well as the potential for climate change?
Art can be destroyed by fires, floods, earthquakes, thrown in the garbage, or just lost forever.
When earthquakes take place, massive amounts of these new microbes we've never seen before come out of the sea floor.
Japan is located right alongside the Pacific Ring of Fire (active volcanoes) and also along the edges of plate tectonics, whose shifting will cause earthquakes and tsunamis (a Japanese term in itself for tidal wave).
Although there have been a few earthquakes in California since this movie was made, there never was any desert or hills between Hwy.99 and I 5. Billy was supposedly crossing over from 99 to 5 along 120, a distance of less that 15 miles.
All is not well in Washington state and Oregon; volcanic eruptions and earthquakes threaten to drop most of the Pacific Rim in the ocean.
There are earthquakes in Los Angeles, but there are no volcanoes.
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