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The Northridge Earthquake was the subject of the 1995 film Epicenter U., a first-hand account of healing from the natural disaster, directed by Alexis Krasilovsky. [71] [72] The Earthquake Haggadah (1995) was a video excerpt from Epicenter U. narrated by Wanda Coleman. Distributed in 3/4" and VHS by the Poetry Film Workshop circa 1998.
Most buildings in a 5-mile (8.0 km) radius were rendered flat or uninhabitable. The explosion was felt within a radius of 130 miles (210 km), and widely thought to be an earthquake. Residents in nearby Lake County, Illinois saw the fireball and remembering the Peshtigo fire, fled their houses and jumped into Lake Michigan.
Undersea Megathrust Earthquake, Tsunami, Contamination (Radioactive) 2011 Japan: Great Hanshin earthquake: $200 [9] $412.7 5,502 – 6,434 Earthquake 1995 Japan: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: $157.8 [10] [11] $162.8 59,488 – 62,013 Earthquake 2023 West Asia ( Turkey, Syria) 2008 Sichuan earthquake: $130 [12] $189.9 87,587 Earthquake 2008 China
The Taipei 101 building for instance relies on a 660-ton pendulum—a tuned mass damper—to modify the response at resonance. The structure is also designed to resonate at a frequency which does not typically occur. Buildings in seismic zones are often constructed to take into account the oscillating frequencies of expected ground motion.
The energy released in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami was over 200,000 times the surface energy and was calculated by the USGS at 1.9 × 10 17 joules, [43] [44] slightly less than the 2004 Indian Ocean quake. It was estimated at a moment magnitude of 9.0–9.1. The damage caused by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami: 50–56 58 TWh
Estimates based on water damage on buildings indicate at least one wave arrived at the station of 14 m to 15 m approximately (46 to 49 ft). Water surged over the site to a depth of 4 m to 5 m (13 to 16 ft), Unit 1 reactor building and turbine hall were the lowest relative to sea level.
Nonetheless, earthquakes have on occasion resulted in considerable damage, most notably in 1580 and 1884; Musson (2003) reports that there have been ten documented fatalities – six caused by falling masonry and four by building collapse. The causes of earthquakes in the UK are unclear, but may include "regional compression caused by motion of ...
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