Earthquakes have had quite an impact on our society in the past, and they will continue to have that Earth-shattering (literally!) impact in the future. It is highly unlikely that any of us have physically experienced one of these natural disasters, and I hope that none of us ever will. What do you think it would be like to experience a Great Quake? What would you do? How would you feel about the total loss of control in the situation? Today, you will learn about some of the Great Quakes in history. Through first-hand accounts of people who were fortunate to live through a large earthquake, you will get a chance to learn about what it was like to experience one of these historical natural disasters. The details for today's activity are found here.
In your blog response, remember to answer TWO of the three choices. As always, I look forward to reading what is written!
b. What do you think it was like to live through the earthquake you researched?
c. Have you ever experienced another natural disaster, such as a tornado, hurricane, severe thunderstorm, or flood? Create your own personal recollection of living through the destruction that event caused.
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B.I think living through the Hebgen Lake was a disaster because if there was a car driving it would probably kill them or injure the people.
C.I have been into a severe thunderstorm in chamberlain. It was insane because it was litning and it was taking down trees and flooding the streets.
The great quake of San Francisco, California (1906), must have been so hard to take in. The city was completely destroyed in the great quake that left nearly half the san francisco area on its nees.
The most depressing thing about all of this is that more then 3,000people died in the quake. The quake caused more then $524 millon in property loss and $20 millon outside the city. The sensible shaking in San Francico was about 1min.
The most facts one was the one in san franciso,california because it was the longest lasting one ever it last 40 seconds. It prouducc about 300 miles of surface rupture along the fault. Also it was by far the largest estimated to have been 8.3 on the richter scale.The earthquake to ever hit north America. It toppled ever thing in it way. Thousnd of people died in there home because they could not get out and others could get out of there house and dozens of people died in there bed asleep or awake because of walls.
That it was bad that day and i hope that it never happen again.
a. the great sanfrasisco the st. frankfort hotel people were sleeping and awoken by the sound of buildings falling to the floor and people screaming in agony
b. hard to imagine just like going through a plane crash but with less fire and more rumbling and craashing
c.flood it was waste deep we couldnt leave are grandparents house even in a big tall truck or tractor they live on a farm and we were stuck there for three days untill the water went down and we could weave it was very boring but we didnt have to drive through the big tall hills with that really deep water.
A) I think the most memorable video/image was after the earthquake happened, all of the citizens got out on the streets and helped out all of the people that were left.
C) I remember one time, my mother telling me that in Honduras, she was in a hurricane called Hurricane Phebe. I also remember one time I was in a wild fire back in Lancaster, California.
4.a. I read about the earthquake in Hebgen Lake, MT back in 1959. I read a lot of facts, and saw a lot of pictures but i would say the the most memorable fact was that it caused 28 fatalities and about $11 million in damage to highways and timber!!!
4.c. I have experience very many severe thunderstorms in my life and it can be pretty scary. I got stuck on the interstate with my dad in a very bad thunderstorm with hail and strong winds. I have seen two funnel clouds in my life and have had to go to the basement of my house because of the tornado sirens before, but thank god i have never experienced an actual tornado. If i was scared hearing the siren, imagine what i would have felt like if a tornado was ripping my house up!!!
A) I thought that the most memorable part of the video I saw was the one about the couple getting the bills after the earthquake had happened. I thought it was slightly funny even though they didn't have anything left and yet they could still laugh about it
C) when I was younger and playing little leage softball, there was a tornado warning on the day of the last game. We had rushed home and it turned out there was no tornado but my family and I stayed downstaires for the rest of the night. My parents said i even slept-walked downstairs later that night after my parents said it was safe to go back upstaires
4b.I think it would be terrible to live threw that one because if you were at the game you wouldn't know what to do.
c. I have experienced an earthquake two years ago in california i was sitting down watching tv and all of a sudden everthing started to shack and i got scared and my family told me to get outside but after a few minuites it was over no serious damage but every one was ok.
I researched Loma Prieta.
A. The most memorable is a picture of a man standing by his car; a huge break in the land from the Earth Quake; and his house on the other side; some of it destroyed. THe crack literally looks big enough for a car to fit the long way horizontally; deep maybe more. Being that it was caused by movement of the plates is pretttttttttttttyyyy interesting.
B. I am thinking that it must have been so much chaos just to go through that; and the fact that it would probably cost so much to replace and just imagine deaths... I think it'd be terrible. It'd be a really hard time getting what you lost after that.
At Hebgen Lake, Montana, the earthquake caused half a highway to collapse and become submerged in the lake. This is memorable because this is one of the many obstacles that stopped people from escaping the tragic inccident.
To live through the earthquake that happened in Montana, the survivors must be very lucky. Many families died so living with the memory must be hard.
the most memorable image was the panoramic view of the city of San Francisco, because it showed most of the destruction on a full scale.
i have been through a severe thunderstorm. we were inside my cousins' house in Watertown, WI. it rained so hard, the streets were flooded in under an hour, but not high enough to damage the homes.
i chosed a, and b...
a, What was the most memorable story, image, or fact about the earthquake you researched? Why?
i saw the video of the world sereis right before they went into the earthquake. i think that it would be bad if the earthquake was any worse because where would all the fans go? i also think that it would be kind of fun to go into an earthquake! it would also be kind of scary at the same time!
2,a. What do you think it was like to live through the earthquake you researched?
i think that it wouldn't be that bad because i dont think that it lasted too long. it actually only lasted 15 seconds.
I choose questions A and question B. My natural disaster was the Hebgen Lake, Montana (1959).
A.)One of the pictures really touched me. I just felt so bad that this natural disaster happened! It was a picture of a house that got crashed by another house. I would have been mad if that was my house. Bummer for them!
B.) Well I think that it would be sad because all natural disasters are terible! Landslides are pretty bad and with the earthquake that caused the landslide..
a. the most rememberal story was when they said that the building had callapsed.
and a picture that showed fires inside a house and no alarms went off and no water was released when the fire fighters got there.
b. to live through an earthquake like i have seen on doing this, i think it would be horrifying, and really hard, you would lose so much of your stuff, maybe even your home if any eq was big enough. i wouldnt want to live through a earthquake like the one i looked up. i would move somewehere were there were no earthquakes.
c. ive never been like in the situation, but when i was little we lived by a shelter type thing and when the warnings went off we eithere went there or if we had time we went to my grandmas during a TORNADO. and one year we went to my grandmas and a big tree fell on here house. it did do some damage, but it didnt like crush it because she still lives in that house.
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1. the most shcoking thing i thought about owens valley was that how the sides of the valley colasped in on people. and how much rock fell and how large of space it ended up covering.
3. i remember one time when like four years ago when my family and i were at a picnic. we heard the siernes go off for a tornado warning and decided to head home. we had to stop for gas before we got home though and while we were there we saw a tornado come down out of the sky, it went down like half way to the ground then went back up, we got lucky. it was an amazing exsperience though being that close to a tornado and not know what would happen if it would touch to the ground or not.
A. One of the memorable stories I read was one of a family that lost their first born child in the Loma Prieta earthquake. The mom was in her apartment when she started to feel the ground shake and the roof started to collapse or cave in. The roof trapped the mom and her child that she was carrying under fallen rock. the baby couldn't breath due to the dust and died in her arms. I think it is memorable because it is always hard to lose someone you love. and especially if they were extremely close to you like a family member.
B. I personally think it was very hard to live through the Loma Prieta earthquake. Not just during the earthquake but also after. I think that you would still be afraind of the ground caving in after the earthquake is over. You would probably not want to move from the place you were in when it happend. And to be on that bridge that collapsed and the highway or freeway would be scary! I wouldn't know how to react to it, I think I would of been speechless if that would even have happened to me.
1.a.What i thought most interesting was that people thought that this earthquake was not a disaster and so they packed up some picnics went to a hill and watched.Also another thing was that they wanted to see the buildings basicly destroyed the big thing was to see the big skyscrapers fall.
2.b.I think i probly would have died in the earthquake if not then the fire but to live through that and survive would probly make me feel bad for the other people.also if i had lived throught this entire earthquke i probly would have ran for my life to hide somewhere safe or to look for my family if they had been with me and if all of the earth quake and fire hadnt killed me the sad nad scaryness and being scarred would killed me with the truama of this fatal earthquake.
A-They most memorable thing i think about the Loma Prieta is just thinking about all the people in the baseball stadium and all the sudden earhtquake came and all these people freaking out. Also all the little kids and parents probably lost the people that they were with and lost them because of everyone freaking out! Thats just sad!=( Then another thing is seeing some of those pictures and the car mostly freaked me out because just seeing how bad the car was crushed! What is someone was in there that would be horrible!!!
B-When stuff go bad i freak over it even if it is the littlest thing and if i was in the earthquake that would not be good...i would just imagine it would be terrifing and horrible seeing people die in front of me and even if it would my family dying in front of me... that would scare me sooooo much! i just wouldnt want to be in that situation... i feel bad who has been in that situation!
A. My most memorable story about the Owen Valley Earthquake is that 52 of the 59 houses in Lone Pine were destroyed at the farthest away this earthquake in California was felt, was in Salt Lake City,Utah
B. It was probably really scary and if you we're in your house you probably had it collapse on you and I couldn't imagine the feeling of scaredness going through your body at the time everything started shaking and especially after thousands of aftershocks.
a. The most memorable picture I saw in the websites today, was the panoramic picture or the whole city of San Fran. with smoke all over the sky and fires all around. It was memorable because it shows you the whole city and all the destruction
b. I think it would be really scary to be living during the Quake of San Fransisco because the 1st of 27 earthquakes began very early in the morning when everybody was still alseep. Also, being trapped in a building that could fall at any moment or just laying in bed helpless when bricks fall on you. It would be very terrifying!
a) A memorable story from the Loma Prieta, (The Worlds Series Earthquake)was told by Terry Steinbach, the catcher for the A's. He and his wife had let their child, two year old Jill, at home with a babysitter while the earthquake.They panicked and worried because they never new what was going on near their home in Alameda. (no cell phones)Came home to find everything was ok.
b)The Loma Prieta would be very scary to live through. Even if you weren't at that world series game, or felt it, you could have been watching that game,screen going black. I think that would be a scare.
a. The most memorable picture where there was a road cracked all over it was ruined and a house on the side of the road that was in pieces also.
b. I wouldve been so scared if i was in an earthquake i dont know what id do id probably just panic. The people must have been freaking out an earthquake would scare me a ton.
c. I have experienced a flood and my downstairs was soaked we had to get cleaners and fans to get all the water out and we had to redo most of our basement. I wasnt really scared just shocked because water kept coming through the toilet it was weird.
Owens Valley,CA
A.) The most interesting fact was that at Lone Pine, 52 of 59 houses were destroyed and 27 people were killed!
B.) I think it would be scary, especially the part of California that the ground felt like being on a boat on the ocean, with the waves. It would also being kind of fun until the aftershocks come (bad parts).
A. The most memorable story I read was from John Muir. It was a first hand account of the Owen Valley earthquake in 1872. It's the most memorable for me because the person was there, went through that, and first hand accounts are the best in my oppion, besides real videos.
B. I think it would be really scary having to go through that. The earth shaking below your feet. you have no control. you don't know what is going to happen next, all you can do is hope for the best. That would be terrifing. I think the worst part would have to be the reconstrution afterwards and maybe having to find out a loved one or friend was killed or injured, during the earthquake.
a. i think that picture 17 is the most memorible picture cause it shows a building with a huge crack in the middle of it. and on one side of the picture the ground is 10 to 12 feet higher than the other side, this picture really shows the damage that this earthquake caused.
c. sometime in late june my chuch and i took a mission trip to alaska. in alaska we were in walmart, getting stuff and the ground started to shake a little, and then we heard some things crash onto the floor, then someone came over the intercom and said that they had just had a small earthquake.
San Fancisco, California earthquake (1906)
a) There was a crack in the earth that was so big you could've fit a full grown man into it. Thats a very big crack. Thats kind of scary.
b) I think it would be tough to have had to live through this earthquake. All of the houses would've been gone and almost everything was completely destroyed. It was pitch black at night and there was also a fire. It would've been a terible experience.
a. The most memorable picture of the Loma Priesta, California earthquake was tons of cars and the road was gone. Most memorable story would be the person who was to lazy to study and took a shower and then got out and felt rumbling under him which he said he got use to for 5 seconds. After 15 seconds he was getting suspicious and his TV fell off and he could here plates and stuff crashing to the floor in the kitchen.
b. Being in your house during any rumbling under you would be crazy but one that was on of the biggest would be chaotic. I would probally remember that forever. I would probally move from California from how much fear I would have from being in a huge earthquake like the Loma Prieta.
a) I read the articles on "Loma Prieta, California." To me, the most memorable thing was the people who said they were lucky. If I had been in their situations, the last thing I would be saying is that I "was lucky." I think it was most memorable because there was so much damage done to homes, offices, and the city, that people with damage that I would consider serious, were calling themselves lucky.
b)I have no idea what it would have been like to live through that earthquake. Some people said they had experienced them before, so they weren't to worried when it started. I would be terrified if my fride/tv were flipping over, or the road in front of my car was being split in half.
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b. i can imagine being in san fran cisco just minding my own business, just another average day at school, and suddenly the ground starts shaking and things are falling all over the place. i probably wouldn't even know what was going on right away. in my mind i would be thinking "Meteor, aliens, tornado!" but i probably wouldn't even think "earthquake!" untill afterwards if i had time to think about or if somebody told me. living in sioux falls might affect what i would think it was since we're used to having to worry about tornados more than earthquakes, but if you lived in california you would probably think "earthquake!" right away.
c. I remember a year or 2 ago the whole city of sioux falls was on tornado watch. it was getting so bad, that at the time people were even leaving work to hide in the basement. while this was happening, i was with my mom on our way to pick up riley from ballet. she was really worried. when we got there, the entire class was just going to the basement to hide, so we went too. it was a big basement, and there was more than enough room for all of us, but the part that really sticks in my head is being stuck in a concrete basement for at least 2 hours with almost nothing to do. it was boredom like i had never experienced before. after we got out, i think i remember my mom telling me about how the tornado ran straight through a neighborhood and destroyed a bunch of houses! i hadn't even known it was that serious!
San Francisco, 1906
a: I think that the most memorable story was the story of the origin of the "ham and eggs fire." I find this story interesting because I think that it is strange to begin cooking while the city is in such a state of panic.
b: I think that living through this earthquake would have been stressful, chaotic, and traumatic. I think that if I were in the city during the earthquake that I would be confused and not know what to do. Also I would be etremely worried for my life because even if I was not killed by the quake I would still have a high chance of being killed by the fires raging through the city.
I researched montana earhtuake and the most interesting one was the madison canyon landslide cause it was the most devastating result of the earthquake.It said nearly half of the mt. fell to the canyon bottom.
Scary because you dont know where it will end and how much damage will happen from it so you are full of questions that cant be answered till after it is over.
I dont remember any so no.
4.a.The video of the world series when it was interupped It looked like something out of a movie.
b.Probably scary, I would naturally assume. I guess I'd jump outside, running around like a maniac until I came to my senses. But by then, I'd probably be knocked out by some kind of debry.
A. people that were stuck at the campsite from the earthquake were stuck there for 3 days. they didnt get out until a bulldover went over the road and flled in the holes. everybody thought they were dead at there home town and their names were put in the obituaries.
C.once when me and the rest of my family was out of town there was a flood. when we came back our whole basement was flooded, and there was dead fish in our backyard. our neighbor had pictures and you couldnt see the street. we lived on a hill and there was water up to the front door.
a. The most memorable story was the one where this guy said he looked across his backyard and saw the neighbor's water in their pool making waves even after you could not feel the earthquake. I thought it was cool how the water responded to the seismic waves even when we could not feel it.
b. I think it was very very scary espacially because of the world series broadcasters and the screen went black. If I would have seen that I would have been kind of scared.
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i researched the earthquake that was in San Fransico in 1906.
The most memorable story was the about how there were fires everywhere, but the alarms broke. But the firefighters saw the fires so they went to go put them out, but there was no water. Because the place where they were getting water from broke, and there was water everywhere.
The reason that was the most memorable was because... i don't know. It was just the one i remembered the most(:
I think it would be scary to live through that earthquake, because it was very deadly and a lot of people died and stuff like that.
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a. The pictures of the bridges, beccause i wonder what happened to the cars on the bridges? Also without those bridges people must get really frustrated because travel would be really hard.
b. Through the different articles i read the people said there were alot of small earthquakes but when this particular earth quake happened they realiseD it was gonna be bigger. also they discribed the falling and breaking of many objects.
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a)one of the most memorable things i saw was in a picture of a victorian; it used to be three story building & it ended up being a one story building that was on fire & barely standing.
another memorable earthquake was one that happened during the 1989 world series game! if you were watching the screen would have gone black and you would have heard the announcer yell for their lives "an earthquake is coming!"
b)it would have been SO cool to live through such a big natural disaster. you would be able to share your story with a bunch of people and it would be a good thing to be precausious for others. you could teach them what you would / should do .
1. The most memorable thing about the san franisco earth quake of 1906 was that 200,000 people of 450,000 people of the city were homeless after it. I think that would be bad because so many people would fight over food and kill each other for it and it would not be good.
2. if i were in a position like a earthquake i would be really nervus to be in one agian it takes many of lives and has and you lose every thing.
A. When i was researching i was reading and people were camping bvut how do you take protection when you are camping? Do you just get in a ditch? That would be afull. Like the family having their annual camping trip. that would be a bad memory.
B. I think alot of people survived it because i heard some one saying that they thought it was just their brothers' friends just messing around shaking the house and turning lights on and off
so i think it would have been easy to survive it.
C. I did experiecnce a natural diaster, it was a tornado
and i was at a soccer tournament in minnesota and then the alarms went off and we went into glass buildings and that was dumb so then we went into a ice rink and nothing happened but the hotel got wrecked that was cool. i was scared i prayed
On March 26,1872 one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history occoured. The most devestating effects occoured at Lone Pine where 52 out of 59 houses were destroyed and 27 people were killed. At Indian Wells adobe houses actually sustained cracks. The largest amount of suface deformation was by Lone Pine and Inependence. Faulting scarps formed along a length of at lease 160 kilometers from Haiwee Reservoir, south of Olancha, to Big Pine. The largest horizontal displacement of 7 meters was measured at the fault scarps west of Lone Pine.
a. The most memorable fact was that 52 out of the 59 houses were destroyed. I think it is because it says that most of the homes were destroyed.
c. I was playing like T-ball or slowpitch (i can't remember) and the sirens went off and the game was pretty much cancelled. My cousin was also at the game and so we went to her house cause it is closer and so when we got to her house we went into her basement and watched the tv and listened to the radio.
1.The most memorable story was that it was on while the world series in baseball was on. And there was a earthquake while the 3 game world series was on.
2.I think that it was good that people lived because they were lucky because you could of got lucky just like the people said in the video they said they were lucky to be alive it could have been more disatourus.
3.I experinced a tornando before ive experinced many of them when i was in 2nd grade i think there was a toranado in minnehaha and it was very close and it blowed down the fence down in my backyard and i did not have a basement.
A. they were talking about how the people were franticaly trying to get out of there homes but they couldn't because doors were jammed and fires were going crazy. Kids and adults were running down the streets trying to get away and they couldn't. Soem people were pushing there pianos down the street cause they couldn't bare to leave them behind.
B. it would be horrible because there was basically no way to stop it and it was utter chaos.
C. I was in mutiple torandos, i use to live in a town that wasn't to far away from kansas (In Nebraska)and it was right in the center of tornado alley. The town was on lower ground than all the ground around it, so tornados would actually go over it. I remeber sitting on our porch before the tornado (which was a really stupid thing to do) and the sky turned greenish in color. it was really quiet. we actually watched the torando funnel form before going to the basement.
A. I thought that the story about John Muir in owens vally was really memarible. I thought it was cool that he wasn't really scared and decided to run out side and see what was happening around him
B. It think it would be scary to live through this earthquake. I would have freaked out. I can't evin imagen the whole ground shaking under my feet.
A. I think that the most memorable story is that the guy turned on the radio to listen to the world series and there was absolute chaos during the world series. I just thought that the timing was wierd for the earthquake to happen.
B. I would imagine that it would be extremely scary ecspecially since it has hours of aftershock. It would just be freaky because you would think the whole thing was done but it would still be shaking.
A. The most memorable story was hearing how many people where stuck or trpped that is just to scary i coulnt imagine it. If it happend to me i would be freaking out i think i would be so frightned i would faint.
B I think it be terrible to live through that earthuake it would be so divestating to go through all of that and you would feel so scared and probably clstrophobic. I would not want to be in a earthquake for sure.
1) The most memorable soty and image and fact was that there was a story telling therer was 3000 dead and 524$ million in damage and the magnitude was 7.8
the image of the city and the short video of the baseball game
2)to live through the horibble deadly earth quake that hit San Francisco was completly destroed and flames and screaming of people in need of help
A) The most memorable story to me was the first one I read Remembering Loma Prieta by Mary K. Miller. She gave great details about that night and within the report there were pictures and videoclips that helped me to understand. I loved how Mary described what happened and how she remembers what happened and how she felt at the time.
B) Living through a earthquake would be a nail-biting scary expirience. In the end having people to support me and laugh with me would help the most.
1. I think that the most "moving" pic was one of a mt. w/o a peak. The entier top just had slid off. I did the 1959 earthquake in Montana.
2. One time when I was younger this really big thunder storm came by and we had to sleep downstairs in a storage room. It was interesting. At the same time I was worried because my dad wasn't there yet.
a. It is a very unfortunate fact that many people died, some are unaccounted for. The mayor issued a shoot to kill order for looters.
b. I think of chaos, confussion, fear, panic, and mayham when hear of this earthquake and the fire that occured afterwards.
a. A picture that was most memorable was a photo of this bridge and a part of the city where everything was destroyed. I can't imagine if that were to happen to me!
b.I bet living through this eathquake was breath taking. It would have scared me to death! The earthquake i researched was the Hebgen Lake, in Montana, and it said over 26million people died! Also, during a landslide,half of a mountain fell onto the canyon, and blocked a busy state hightway 287.
a. The most memorable fact I learned about my earthquake (San Francisco 1906) was that 200,000 people out of San Francisco's 450,000 population were left homeless because of the disaster. To me that's just crazy because thats almost half the poulation.
b. To live through an earthquake like the one I researched would probablly be miracle. It was extremly distructive and probablly impossible for someone like me (someone who knows nothing about what to do during an earthquake) to live though that.
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a)My most memorable story was the video of the two people who talk about how they lost everything but still have to have a sense of humor. That seems really sad to think you could have nothing left.I probably wouldnt have a sense of humor left! Seeing the disaster was horrible.
b)I think to be in an earthquake would be terrifing.Not having any control!Or the thought you might lose people close to you,that you might lose everything you have!?!?! I bet it would be scary thinking you could die..
A. the photo that was the most memerable was the picture with the bricks and the crack down the middle, and bricks were saging down into the crack because i new bricks and cement are strong but i didn't think they were that weak to be torn a part by an earthquake.
C. The natural disaster i have experienced is the tornados on tornado tuesday. We were at the park and everything was sunny and it was the most beautiful weather i have felt all summer. the minute we got home something didn't feel right. especially when all of a sudden the wind just picks up out of the middle of no where. We just sat down for dinner and the sirens went off. At 7 years old i had know idea what was going on. i ran to the window and looked outside just in time to see our little 4 foot plant get lifted, roots and all, and carried away. So terrified i ran downstairs and through myself on the sofa. i don't care if they took their sweettime getting down stairs. I was the first one downstairs, and the last on to leave.
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A)The Madison Canyon landslide, six miles below Hebgen Dam, was the most devastating result of this earthquake. Nearly half of a mountain fell to the canyon bottom, covered part of Rock Creek campground, blocked State Highway 287, and dammed the Madison River, causing Earthquake Lake to form. Twenty six people were killed by this landslide, but only seven bodies were found. The remaining 19 are presumed buried under the landslide. This photo was taken the day after the earthquake.
B) It would've been really of scary and probably life changing to be in that type of situation in that time and place.
1.I think the most memerable story is the won where the kid was watching the world series and decided to go take a shower as he got in the ground started to shake but he was used to that he thought it would stop in a couple seconds but it got worseand turned into one of the worst earthquakes theyve ever had.
2. I think it would be hard to live through an earthquake like that becuase you dont know whats going to happen if your house will collapse on you and you get burried alive or somthing worse
The most memorable story that I read was by a novelist by the name of Jack London. He described the second day the fire, caused by the earthquake, burned. "The smoke-pall viewed from beneath was a rose color that pulsed and fluttered with lavender shades. There was no sun. So dawned the second day on strickened San Francisco." He describes the scene with light, even though there wasn't a sun present. It made me think that even in that time of "strickened San Francisco" some people still looked to the light.
I don't think anyone can truly imagine what it's like to live through a disaster, natural or no. I wonder if even after you've lived through one, if you can truly imagine going through it again. Those people that lived through this earthquake, they are some of the true heros of this world. Even though they had lost everything to a force of nature, they were still able to survive. I think those people must have felt lower than dirt, as if the whole world was set against them. It takes an amazing person to keep going after that. "If you're going to San Francisco, you're going to meet some gentle people there." Whoever wrote that song should have written about how brave and couragous those people are.
A)A woman named carol was changing her 3 month old babies sister named scotty. It was the Loma Prieta earth quake. i felt so bad cause the fell 10 stories to the bottome of their garage. the baby was fine but it only died cause it choked on dust and stuff from the garage celling. i feel really bad for the mom, cause her baby died.
c)i was 12 years old, and we were about an hour to two hours from home. (we were comming home from disney world) we just left wendys and just got in our car when the aphmphspere changed. it got still and quiet. then the torando sirens went off and i looked behind us and was terrrifed. their about 10 feet from the back of our car was the biggest twister i have ever seen in my life since the one i saw the one we had put our car in a ditch when i was 4. and it was comming closer every second. i screamed n my dad quickly got us to a hotel were we stayed while we watched the twister go on. it was the scariest thing i have ever seen and lived from in my life! :(
a. The most memorable story I read, was of a man that was listening to the world series game on the radio, when he decided to go take a shower. While in the shower, he felt the floor lurch out from underneath his feet. He also saw his t.v., refrigerator, and bookcase tip over and crumple to the ground. He was deciding over going outside naked or staying inside. He decided to stay inside and brace himself under the doorjam. He said that it was the loudest thing he had ever heard in his life. He did live to tell the tell but he did get many phone calls from worried relitives and friends.
b. I think it would be absolutly terrifying to experience a big earthquake. You would feel absolutly helpless when things all around you tumbling to the ground and sometimes bursting into flames. I would be fearing for my life especially because if a freeway or a bridge were to collapse, it would not be good. Another thing that I would experience, would be extremely loud noise because of the plates moving past each other. In the Loma Prieta, California quake, the plates slid 6 feet! So for me, Im pretty glad I dont live in California.
a. In the pockets of destruction, the earthquake crumbled buildings in Loma Prieta,this earthquake also destroyed the freeways, and bridges, and knocked out power to homes, businesses, and Candlestick Park, where the World Series was under way.
c. On tornado tuesday, me and my family were just at home living a normal day, the only thing different was that the temperature seemed a little warmer and muggier than normal. Not long after supper, we turned on the tv and there were warning signs sprawled across the bottom of the screen like a bunch of spams. As the night went on the alerts became more and more frequent, at the time I was about seven so I went to bed pretty early. I was woken up in the middle of the night by my mom telling me we had to get downstairs. The rest seemed like a blur, but when I woke up the next morning part of our house had been hit by the tornado. The next few weeks seemed quite long because of being out of the house for it to be rebuilt.
a. I think that the most memorable picture of this earthquake was probably the video on the second website. Everything was perfectly fine, during the first couple of seconds of the recording of the world series game, and then everything blacks out and you can barely make out the announcer screaming that "we are having an earthquake!" I think that it would be so creepy to be listening to that on the TV, and then you feel the earthquake starting right after they say that.
b)I think that it would be really hard to live through the earthquake, expecially the Loma Prieta in California. This one guy was at his apartment when the earthquake struck, and all his family members (living miles and miles away) thought that he had died. Also, the newsreporters all said that and estimated hundreds of people had died, when only about 70 people really were dead, or they said that a tsunami had wiped out towns on the coast line, when really there was no tsunami at all. Living through that, and trying to face the horror and reality of the situation before i think would be the hardest thing. That's why no one hopes to see another one of these disasters for a longgggg time.
the pictures are really really sad i mean houses detroyed by other houses and other buildidng is so sad i would have not been able to live through that i would be so devistated i would have totally hated the place i lived and wanted to move as far away as possible... i dont think that as many people realize what actually took place and how bad it was...it seems to me that most people would just look at it and be like its not me who cares... its trajic what happens to these people and like how many people die out of it is sooo sad...
A. I think that the most memorable story i heard was that a mother watched her baby die in her arms after an eathquake. This was excpecially sad because the baby was so young and helpless.
B. I reasearched the Loma Pierta earthquake that occured during the world series game. I think that at the begining of the earthquake there would have been a lot of confusion and panic about what was going on. Then, I think that there would have been lots of noise. Things like shevles and tvs would have started to fall over. Then there would be a scramble to find a safe spot for you and your family during the earthquake. After it was all over, I think there would be even more panic to make sure all of your loved ones were still alive. They may also be scared that there may be aftershocks of the earthquake.
A. The most memorable story was one about a boy who was six years old and he was in a car with some friends and family when the earthquake hit. Everyone died but him and he had to get his leg amputated to get out of the car. I thought that this was the most memorable story because I cant even imagine what that would be like.
B. I think that at the begining of the earthquake there would have been confusion and it would have been a time of not knowing what was going on. Then there would be a lot of scared people wondering if their family and friends were still alive. Towards the end of the whole process there would be a lot of sadness and then people would try and start to pick up some of the peices.
b. One lady said she would have been really scared, but she wasn't, because she had family with her. I think that's how anyone would feel if they went through, not just an earthquake, but any natural desaster. I don't think you would be happy, but it would make you feel better knowing there was someone there with you.
c. I haven't been in any real big disasters, just a severe thunderstorm where the power went out. I was about six years old and the power went out for like seven hours or so. You would think I'd be really scared (since I was only six), but I wasn't. I had my parents with me and we played board & card games all night. It was actually really fun.
b. I would be horrified. I would probably do nothing for the next couple days after that because i wouldn't really know what to do.
c. The first time i went back to singapore, we went to an island resort in Malaysia for a few days to celebrate my brothers birthday. One day we went snorkling in the Indian Ocean. When we left the skies were perfectly clear. After 30 minutes of snorkling, we started to go back. The skies got really dark and the rain started coming down really hard and it got really windy. It should have been a 20 minute boat ride back but it ended up taking 40. I spent most of the time in the cabin throwing up while all the adults were outside crying while the boat was practically on its side the whole ride.
a- the most memoriable story i read was the historic earthquake one in Owens Valley, California. i thought that one was cause it said in there that at Long Pine 52 of 59 houses with were mosly made of adobe or stone were destroyed and 27 people were killed.
b- The place i researched was Owens Vally, California (1872) and from what i read it seems like it stunk cause people were killed and homes were destroyed.
The california one because it destoryed the whole place.
It was probably pretty hard to live through a earthquake because all your things would be destroyed and some things of yours you treasured would be gone. Earthquakes can also be deadly so you could lose loved ones and it would also effect you really negatively.
A: I think the most memorable thing from the Hebgen Lake Mt. Eathquake was that 26 people were killed but only 7 bodies were found.
B: I think as long as my family was with me and I knew they were safe I would still be scared just not as worried.
C: From what I can remember I have never experienced a life threatening or even a very severe storm.
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