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AGADIR
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SOME FACTS ABOUT AGADIR.
Agadir is a city that is in the South-West part of Morocco
which is in Africa. The city could once have been an ancient
roman site. Agadir is in the west side of the Sous-Wadi
plain. That plain is surrounded by the Anti-Atlas and the
Haut-Atlas mountains. Other three closest cities that are
near Agadir are Safi, Marrakech and Ouarzazat. They
would not be affected as much as Agadir by natural
hazards because they are not as close to the ocean as
Agadir is.
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WERE ON THE MAP.
In this picture, you can see Morocco
on the bottom left hand corner. In
there, there is a red star and that is
were Agadir is. You can see that it
is near the Atlantic ocean. The
whole of Africa is on the African
plate and then so is Agadir. Agadir
is close to the next plate which is
the south American plate. Both
plates are pushing into each other
which is making the earthquakes
and that is called a destructive
margin. You could also call it an
oceanic plate crashing into an
oceanic plate.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
In 1960, there was an earthquake. Measured in magnitude, it was
5.9 out of 10. This happened on January the 13th and it killed
about 15,000 people and left 25,000 injured. It killed so many
people because they had very poor evacuation system and they
were not warned about the earthquake. The damage was so much
that they had to make another city on the south side of the old
one and left that one the way it is. Now the city is a very popular
tourist site with very modern thing like hotels. As well as the
earthquake, it also had a huge tidal wave because the land is so
close to the ocean. That had also caused more people to die
because they would all drown.
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WHAT ARE TIDAL WAVES.
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Normal little waves that you find on the beach that you can
play in are just caused by wind. Tidal waves, also called
tsunamis, are caused by underwater movements in the
ocean, for example, an underwater earthquake. They can
also be formed by underwater volcano's or just a simple
landslide. If this happens in the middle on the ocean and it
is very deep, then it will not be that big, even a boat would
be able to go through it without tipping over. If it was not
that deep and near a shore, then that could really become a
threat to the places near that shore. Big waves can travel
at least about thousand miles. Like the waves at Hawaii
start at Antarctica and they are caused by storms about
6400 kilometres away. So when the big earthquake hit
Agadir, there was also a huge tidal wave that hit it right
after the earthquake.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT.
These two quotes that I got from a web-site could tell us about
what people are doing to protect city’s when it all happens
again.
“With sufficient notification, an offshore oil rig could aim its own
shockwaves towards in incoming tsunami, breaking the tidal
wave down into even-smaller and less destructive waves.”
So this is that they are trying to beak down a big tidal waves and
make it smaller so that it will not do as much harm. This
technique is still in process of making but could maybe be used
within a decade. The other quote is similar but about
earthquakes.
“With advance warning, operators of a building could fire
electromagnet waves at incoming shockwaves of an
earthquake to protect against the worst of an earthquake
destructive power.”
This would really help because if it is a shockwave against a
shockwave, they would both be stopped and there would be no
big enough earthquake to do a lot of damage.
WHAT TO DO IN AN
EARTHQUAKE.
The first smart thing to do would be to prepare a safety kit
when an earthquake comes. In it you should have a
flashlight and extra batteries, money, water bottle, energy
bars, (not for the taste) Blankest and a tent, medicine and
maybe a phone. When you are in an earthquake, you
should right away go under a doorway of under a very
strong table. Put your hands behind the back part of your
neck so you can protect that as much possible. When the
earthquake is over, then you should leave the house as
quickly as possible with all the things that you need. Please
be kind to your pets and save them!!! Go strait to a big area
that has no big danger of things falling onto you like a
soccer field, a park of a parking lot. (not the building ones
with levels) Once you are there, you just wait until you get
more information about what to do next.
BIBLIOGRAPHY .
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“Agadir.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 1. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1768.
p138.
“What are waves?” Planet Earth. Time Life Student Library. Crawford, JeanBrute.
Amsterdam: Time Life books, 1998. p80-81.
“History of great Earthquakes.” 25/11/2009. PACIFIC DISASTER CANTER.
25/11/2009. http://www.pdc.org/iweb/earthquake_history.jsp
“Cloaking technology could protect buildings from disaster : study.” Not Available.
OTTAWA CITTIZEN. 27/11/2009.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Cloaking+technology+could+protect+buildings+f
rom+disasters+study/1914797/story.html
“Perception of earthquake risk in Agadir, Morocco: A case study from a Muslim
community.” 29/11/2009. SienceDirect. 29/11/2009.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VPC-4KPP4DD1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searc
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sion=0&_userid=10&md5=a7a119bbe0030e4694fa378718529fd4
“What could you do when here is an earthquake?” 29/11/2009. Answers.com.
29/11/2009.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_could_you_do_when_there_is_an_earthquake
ANY QUESTIONS ???
THE END !!!