The Loma Prieta Earthquake

Corrine Johnson

3-19-15

The Loma Prieta earthquake hit just as the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics were warming up for their next game on October 17, 1989. On the Richter Scale measured 7.1 and shook the whole ground. A lot of people in Loma lost their homes in the destruction of the earthquake but some even lost their lives. Lots of people got injured and people died.

the earthquake of Loma Prieta, california killed and injured many people leaving families distraught and the wounded helpless. All the players and fans at Candlestick Park were frightened but no one was injured. The earthquake killed 41 people in their cars and left 4000 people wounded from bad to worse. The rounded cost of the hospital bills the hurt citizens of loma’s injury cost was about 8.3 million dollars.

The damage costs of the earthquake were about 6 billion dollars. the bay bridge collapsed with people on it, thousands of buildings were damaged leaving several thousand californians homeless til the damage was fixed. the bill for a womans house that was destroyed and that one house costed about 55 thousand dollars. if you imagine an entire state of houses destroyed and think about all the homeless and expenses with nothing to do it was a horrible tragedy.

Volcano Final

Corrine Johnson

Right now 20 volcanos could be erupting and causing mass amounts of damage to towns, people, wildlife, and greenery. Although all these things could be ruined, the volcano’s eruption can be beneficial to other things as well. from about 1990 to 1999 about 154 volcanos erupted. 550 total volcanos have been historically documented and about 1500 not recorded but still accounted for. While these big volcanos were on land there are an estimated 1 million young volcanoes in the oceans.

A volcano is a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust. A single volcano can last for hundreds to thousands of years. In Sumbawa, Indonesia the world’s most devastating volcano erupted (found at: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/tambora.html). Volcanoes are formed when magma from within the Earth’s upper mantle works its way to the surface. At the surface, it erupts to form lava flows and ash deposits. Over time as the volcano continues to erupt, it will get bigger and bigger.

Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and dangerous, but the deposits of rock, ashes, and mineral that come from the lava magma can be very helpful in a farming business, for the old dried magma is rich in soil. So if there are farmers who are in need of some fertilizer, why not go scoop up some old dry magma? But there are some places where there is too much fertilizer and it over-fertilizes and kills the crops.

The farms are really the only benefit of the molten hot magma. Volcanos otherwise are very destructive and bring trouble to manys families, homes, or other properties and leaves them hopeless, and needing to move in order to find somewhere safe to live. Volcanos erupt all the time and some don't even deteriorate for long after. They all start as something small and innocent, but eventually your home could fall victim to the dangerous mass if one is near.