It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

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We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

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Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

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New Zealand

An earthquake struck New Zealand's city of Christchurch on Tuesday
Burying vehicles under debris and collapsing buildings into the streets.
Police announced a curfew and city was shut down on Wednesday,
Rescuers scrambled to reach beneath the rubble the residents.

The quake devastating the spire of the Cathedraland is a real tale.
The buildings had collapsed and the people were trapped inside.
All around the city, this powerful earthquake strangely bent some rails, Moreover, it toppled the tall buildings and seventy five people died.

The earthquake combination of distance and depth was so deadly,
Streets were strewn with concrete and people were stuck in towers.
Firefighters climbed ladders to pluck people from roofs to safety.
Buildings have gone because aftershocks hit the city within two hours.

Pre-World War buildings were damaged by the quake on September,
People wandered through streets strewn with debris and concrete.
The further damage was caused by a strong aftershock in December.
Now there is a real carnage with bodies littering the streets..

The women went into premature labor and the city was in agony.

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poem by Marieta Maglas
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See his ceiling lit with many a mirrored star

See his ceiling lit with many a mirrored star
See the lamps that are truly glitteringly ours
Then alchemizes these cherished hearts
Into moments, minutes, and hours
Alchemize what love eternal is truly yours
What radiance shone meteoric ashore?
What pull has turned a melancholic tide...
And harboured so many a soul and mind
Through seismic, storm
Brimful of a universe without impudent pride
Know your place is a golden elixir by his side

poem by Mark Heathcote
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An Echo Of A Why

growing wild through the mountain space
we should beware an earthquake of a word
as it's being killed by ether

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

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Fractures Of Fault-line

circles of pain earthquake recurring
series of overlapping incidents
fractures of fault-line disappointment

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Banda Aceh 2012 Spectral Earthquake Haunts

Banda Aceh Indonesia
massive 8.6-magnitude
earthquake 2012 April 11
caused no reports of casualties
no damage significant
from initial nightmare quake
from 8.2 strong aftershock

nearly three hours later
which sparked new waves
of panic triggered renewed
tsunami fears across Indian
Ocean sending scared people
in coastal cities fright fleeing
to sanctuary high ground

spectral quake struck about
434 kilometers (270 miles)
southwest of Banda Aceh
capital of Indonesia's Aceh

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Wax Palace

You were half-crazy
saving little buds
brutalized by storm
in a yawning night.

The ugly silver of a fringe
group becomes intentionally
a hate cult, developing
an epicenter for stripping

to devastate a religion. The
ghosts are walking in the
corridors of mirrored crimes.
There is a creeping sadness in the golden lock.

The blood craft brings obscene
inheritance. You hide the script of
murder in a wheel chair. Things have
not remained things. There is smoke all around.

poem by Satish Verma
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When The Earth Moved

the earth moved I noticed not
the earth moved I cared not
this earthquake was so far away
Aceh Indonesia is a long way
from our house a different island

Aceh Indonesia is on Sumatera Island
Bintaro outside Jakarta on Java Island
no tsunami in Aceh this time none died
earthquake tsunami warning people cried
earthquake same place scale no one died? ? ?

the earth moved I noticed not
the earth moved I cared not
after over a week of typhoid
typhi unpleasant experienced
body ached brain was scrambled

disease induces
unintentional

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

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One Earthquake at a Time

Upheaval can take millions of years to start,
Then mountains pile up and sea beds tear apart,
When land crashes into another piece of land,
Things disappear in the sand.

The history of the world, written in rock,
Reveals results of the after shock,
Years of cracks show the sign,
Things change one Earthquake at a time.

The value of life devoid of the crap,
Becomes acute on a rearranged map,
The depths of the earth reach the depths of the mind,
One Earthquake at a time.

poem by Richard Jarboe
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Secrets 3

Secrets of state, said my codex,
classic examples of which would be the Ems letter
and (doubtless) Irangate,
may without blame be unbosomed
but not before the lapse of three moons.
Shall the deesse of secrecy, her complexion avocado,
her temples plaited with slender snakes,
awaken, pardon the indiscretion, then resume her trance-
during which time she listens, vengefully, the wide world over
for the seismic disclosures of confidences
to forgive which one must burn the stamens of gentian?

Whereas the second....

poem by Morgan Michaels
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The Earth Shook And The Sea Roared

It reached 8.9 on the Richter scale
and the hearts of men began to fail.
They predicted a huge Tsunami
a great tidal wave rising from the sea.

As the gruesome images were displayed
all across the world many people prayed
and for hours waited with baited breath
for the great onslaught that would lead to death.

Watching and waiting for the wave to break
leaving mass destruction in its wake
it moved on to where Matthew was based
a small island that in its path was placed.

We stood in awe and waited as we prayed
hoping God's great mercy would be displayed.
Then He caused the Tsunami to subside
for many thousands more would have died.

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poem by Royston
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Dreams

Chandeliers sputtered a flame
Sharp and slender like the footsteps
Moaning with the floorboard's slumber
This light held steadily its constant
Epicenter of proud undulations
Rocking an inebriated heart to sleep
Whilst the soul remained tethered
To contending against fear
With a hathful of daunted sneers
And flowers prancing for the winds
Of vicissitude's circles - eternal was
The quaint photographs left
Like all the phantoms that stroked
The brush from these palettes

Had it all been a long dream?

poem by Norman Santos
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Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

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