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EMERGENCY EARTHQUAKE
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energy creates seismic waves that travel
panaytoday / that
lithosphere July 12, 2015 seismic waves. Earthquakes can
creates
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 Scientists use the different speeds of seismic River for the People Movement (JRPM) criticized the
be felt to those violent enough to toss people around and
 waves
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to locate the epicenter (the point on the latest statement of the Philippine Institute of
destroy whole cities. The seismicity or seismic activity of
 surface
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directly above where the earthquake Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) that excludes
an area Calinog
refers toto thetowns
those frequency, type West
near the active andPanaysize fault
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line. experienced over a period of time.
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also “The towns near this fault are Lambunao,
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Janiuay, Maasin, earthquakes?
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earthquake that hit the Tohoku region of Miagao and San Joaquin in Iloilo; Ibajay, Malinao,
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in Aklan; ever in
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able to predict them.
and Jamindan
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magnitude of Scientistsand
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Tapaz in Capiz,” saidways of predicting
last week.
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and killed over 15000 people. earthquakes, butItsnone have
regional been Renato
director successful.
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said
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sometime must prepare.”
in the future, but they have no way of
He also declared that the West Panay fault line
 1960, it had a magnitude of 9.5.
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621-02-21 telling when it will happen.
is active.
Why  does the earth shake when there is an
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522-52-11 HOW ARE EARTHQUAKES RECORDED?
“It lacked a very important municipality,
EARTHQUAKE SAFETY TIPS!
earthquake?
PHILIPPINE
PHILIPPINE RED REDCROSS
CROSS(CAPIZ
(CAPIZCHAPTER)
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set to erect. recorded by toinstruments
it really forget mention Calinog,called
or it
While the edges of faults are stuck together, and the rest of seismographs.
hides it The recording
from us? Truth bethey make isis acalled
told, Calinog boundary a
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the block is moving, the energy that would normally cause seismogram.The seismograph has a base that sets
municipality and lies between the towns of Lambunaofirmly in
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another is being stored up. the ground, and and
(Iloilo) a heavy
Tapaz weight that hangs
(Capiz),” free.JRPM
said the Wheninana
When  the
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force of the moving blocks finally overcomes the statement.
earthquake causes the ground to shake, the base of the
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fault and it unsticks, all seismograph shakes The too,
groupbutproduced an image
the hanging of overlapping
weight does not.
thatstored up energy is released. The energy radiates
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643-00-96 maps showing the fault, the municipality of Calinog
Instead the spring or string that it is hanging from absorbs and
outward from the fault in all directions in the form of the dam.
all the movement. The difference in position between the
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0912-735-0573 The fault line reaches up to the municipalities
seismic wavesPrepared
like ripples
by:onApril
a pond.
JoyThe seismic &
Delandao waves shaking part of the seismograph and the motionless part is
of Jamindan and Tapaz in Capiz province, and the
shake the earth as they move through it, and when the what is recorded.
Princess Joy Diaz municipalities of Libacao, Madalag, Ibajay, and Malinao
waves reach the earth’s surface, they shake the ground and in the province of Aklan, but spares the province of
anything on it, like our houses and us! Antique, which belongs to another fault line from the
Tablas Strait.