Week 3: Seismicity
What is Chile's seismicity? And what is the country doing to prevent an earthquake catastrophe?
Hello all, this week we're going into a little bit more detail about one of the topics from the week 2 blog. As stated during that week's blog, Chile has a very high risk of earthquakes because of its close proximity to the Nazca fault line. This week's blog will be all about the seismicity of Chile and what the country does to prevent these frequent earthquakes from being more devastating than they could be. USGS.gov is a website that shows earthquakes across the world in real-time. According to that wedsite, Chile Experienced 2 minor earthquakes on the day of this blog post. One was a 5.2 Magnitude, the other a 4.7. Both of these are small comparatively and caused no disruption or harm and many people probably didn't even notice its happening. Because of all of these earthquakes, Chile has a very efficient and advanced system of protection. One of these is an early warning system designed to detect earthquakes very quickly and send out a signal of its epicenter, magnitude and time. These early warning systems play a huge role in saving lives during a potentially hazardous earthquake. Chile is known for having the worlds largest quakes, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened in Chile and destroyed an entire city. Another thing Chile does is uses very specific building codes that make the architecture much more resilient to the shaking of the earth. CNN said this about Chile's strict building codes saved many lives during an 8.8 earthquake in 2010. They said "The key to surviving high magnitude quakes is to live and work in seismically safe buildings, while being aware of how nature around us can also change," Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, said in the report." The report goes on to explain how a similar earthquake happened several years later in the country Haiti, but unlike Chile, Haiti was devastated by the earthquake and over 230,000 people died once the dust settled on the quake. Chile is a country that is well prepared for the dangers it faces, and it will continue to improve its systems. Thanks for reading this weeks post, I look forward to continuing this blog.
My sources:
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~bieriir/earthquakes/
https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/world/americas/chile-earthquake/index.html
What is Chile's seismicity? And what is the country doing to prevent an earthquake catastrophe?
Hello all, this week we're going into a little bit more detail about one of the topics from the week 2 blog. As stated during that week's blog, Chile has a very high risk of earthquakes because of its close proximity to the Nazca fault line. This week's blog will be all about the seismicity of Chile and what the country does to prevent these frequent earthquakes from being more devastating than they could be. USGS.gov is a website that shows earthquakes across the world in real-time. According to that wedsite, Chile Experienced 2 minor earthquakes on the day of this blog post. One was a 5.2 Magnitude, the other a 4.7. Both of these are small comparatively and caused no disruption or harm and many people probably didn't even notice its happening. Because of all of these earthquakes, Chile has a very efficient and advanced system of protection. One of these is an early warning system designed to detect earthquakes very quickly and send out a signal of its epicenter, magnitude and time. These early warning systems play a huge role in saving lives during a potentially hazardous earthquake. Chile is known for having the worlds largest quakes, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened in Chile and destroyed an entire city. Another thing Chile does is uses very specific building codes that make the architecture much more resilient to the shaking of the earth. CNN said this about Chile's strict building codes saved many lives during an 8.8 earthquake in 2010. They said "The key to surviving high magnitude quakes is to live and work in seismically safe buildings, while being aware of how nature around us can also change," Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, said in the report." The report goes on to explain how a similar earthquake happened several years later in the country Haiti, but unlike Chile, Haiti was devastated by the earthquake and over 230,000 people died once the dust settled on the quake. Chile is a country that is well prepared for the dangers it faces, and it will continue to improve its systems. Thanks for reading this weeks post, I look forward to continuing this blog.
My sources:
https://legacy.earlham.edu/~bieriir/earthquakes/
https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/world/americas/chile-earthquake/index.html
Hey Sam,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog this week and finding out some cool facts about Chile and the earthquakes that happen there. It is true even for Canada the early warning system for earthquakes does save lives. Glad I choose to read yours as you had some interesting facts I didn't know and will for sure come back next week to read yours. Greats Job.