Earthquakes

Earthquakes Earthquakes Earthquakes have plagued our lives for as long as people have inhabited the earth. These dangerous acts of the earth have been the cause of many deaths in the past century. So what can be done about these violent eruptions that take place nearly with out warning' Predicting an earthquake until now has almost been technologically impossible. With improvements in technology, lives have been saved and many more will. All that remains is to research what takes place before, during, and after an earthquake. This has been done for years to the point now that a successful earthquake prediction was made and was accurate. This paper will discuss a little about earthquakes in general and then about how predictions are made. Earthquake, “vibrations produced in the earth's crust when rocks in which elastic strain has been building up suddenly rupture, and then rebound.”(Associated Press 1993) The vibrations can range from barely noticeable to catastrophically destructive. Six kinds of shock waves are generated in the process. Two are classified as body waves-that is, they travel through the earth's interior-and the other four are surface waves. The waves are earthquake, waves, quake, earthquakes, before, magnitude, earth's, been, about, scale, quakes, research, press, predicting, one, times, surface, predictions, powerful, occur, lives, days, years, xii, vibrations, two, travel, time, seismologist, seismic, san, richter, plate, new, modern, mercalli, made, levels, intensity, fault, event, earth, crust, century, cause, 1992, 95, whereas, very, until