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    Chile’s economy will be examined. In addition, this paper will provide an analysis on just who stood to gain the most from a regime change, the American people winning a war against communism, or the multinational corporations whose businesses in Chile could be potentially nationalized. This paper will also examine the interdepartamental differences and rifts inside the Nixon Administration itself, and help clarify whether or not these differences were based upon an ideological difference or because

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    Professor Shawn Smith English 363 June 8, 2016 The Biggest Earthquake Ever May 22nd, 1960 this date will forever be in the records of history as one of the days when humanity has witness the power of nature like never before and until today there hasn 't been anything similar to this cataclysm. Earthquakes are known around the world for their destruction and its killing path that in the most powerful situations they can provoke. An earthquake happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past

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    For the fault zone that I chose to research for this project, I chose the Peru-Chile Trench, also known as the Chile Subduction Megathrust and as the Atacama Trench. It is called that because the area between Peru and Chile is called "The Atacama", and such was the plate named. The Peru-Chile trench is located along the western coast of Peru and Chile. It marks the zone where the Nazca plate is being subducted beneath the South American plate and is approximately 3,666 miles long. (Britannica, p

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    Valdivia, Chile 1960 an earthquake changed the lives of many. An earthquake is the violent shaking of the ground that will destroy homes, buildings, landforms, historical monuments, and lives. Earthquakes begin with the breakage of rock along a fault line. When two tectonic plates rub against each other they create an earthquake. Earthquakes will ride along a fault line which will determine how long the quake will go on. The larger and longer the fault like the bigger the earthquake. Earthquakes send

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    Haiti and Chilean earthquakes Occurrence The Haiti and Chile earthquakes of 2010 were7.0 and 8.8 in magnitude on the Richter scale and occurred in the Caribbean and south American plates respectively.. The Haitian earthquake was the highest earthquake to be recorded in the country as it had not experienced any seismic activities for the past 250 years. The Chilean earthquake was the third highest earthquake in their history although seismic activities are often recorded in the country. The Haitian

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    Physical Event Earthquakes are defined as “sudden trembling in the earth caused by the abrupt release of slowly accumulated strain”. This accumulated strain comes from the movement of tectonic plates at faults. The Chilean Earthquake happened along the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate Typically, the Nazca plate moves on average 70-80mm per a year. “At this subduction zone, tension built and was released when the Nazca Plate moved fifteen meters under the South American Plate.” The sudden

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    Earthquakes have been around for longer than humans have roamed the Earth. Even though humans haven’t been around to record all earthquakes, they have been around to record many significant ones in the past that have done damages to not only civilizations, but human lives and even the economy. A prime example of an earthquake that wreaked havoc on Earth was the Great Chilean Earthquake. This was the world’s largest ever recorded earthquake which had a magnitude of 9.5 that hit near Valdivia, Chile

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    “THE GREAT CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE” The Chilean earthquake was the earth’s biggest earthquake ever recorded in the twentieth century. This earthquake took place near Valdivia, southern Chile, on May 22, 1960. The magnitude (the measurement of the peak of the movement) recorded by a seismograph (a device used to find and record vibrations that comes from an earthquake) was 9.5. It is possible that other earthquakes were larger; however, the Chilean Earthquake is the largest earthquake since precise estimates

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    People tremble when they hear the word; destruction, and tragedy: all words that come to mind when “earthquake” is heard. Earthquake is a natural calamity that has the power to destroy human lives in a few seconds; it is responsible for the huge damage to living and non-living things. It occurs without warning and can cause millions of money in destruction and deaths and also it is one of the most unpredictable and devastating occurrences Mother Nature dishes out. There is a sudden slip in the earth’s

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    This book is about how William Foster produces eleven maps of the expeditions that took place from Northeastern Mexico during the years of 1689 to 1768. Foster also explains the diary records kept in each expedition as the Spanish explorers passed through Texas. This book also deals with how the Spanish had to overcome the Indian threats that arose during the seventy-nine years of the Spanish expedition. The main purpose of this book is to study the routes followed and the important events that occurred

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