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…to salty water because of these reservoirs. The water standing in the reservoir evaporates when not used and the rest of the water becomes more salty.10 There is another theory that dams are causing earthquakes, when these large structures are placed…

…on the world, and had changed it into the Earth we know of today. Early in the year, the Big Shake, a massive 12.0 earthquake hit West Island, once known as California. The earthquake hit along the San Andreas Fault line, and had enough power to separate California…

…the spent fuel to explode, but the extreme weight of the fuel inside the warehouses might cause the structures to rupture, especially in the case of an earthquake. (Shulman, 15) A repository is a storage facility that stores high-level nuclear waste deep…

…, natural disasters such as earthquakes, famines et cetera. The problem of evil here is quite straight forward, why would a morally perfect God inflict such suffering on human kind if he had the power to prevent it. Moral evil, on the other hand, is the human…

…. What makes these views philosophically or scientifically interesting? We will begin with (1). It seems very likely that Thales was offering an hypothesis to explain a puzzling phenomenon: why are there earthquakes? If the earth floats on water, then we can…

…not discuss these topics in any detail. Although the article stressed many of the major natural hazards including floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the issue regarding terrorism and the September 11th attacks were completely neglected…

…and the settlements of Crete were reduced to ruins possibly by earthquakes this shuned in the dawn of the 2nd palace period. Minoan Civilization reached its zenith in the Second Palace Period. Magnificent new palaces were built upon the ruins of the old ones. The cities…

…Montserrat, a small Caribbean Island southeast from Puerto Rico, made headline news in July 1995, when the country's dominant volcano, Soufrière Hills, blew out steam and ash from its northwest crater. Eruptions accompanied by earthquakes continued ever…

…Alexandria was a Greco-Roman city at the Western end of the Mediterranean on the Nile Delta, and was the Greatest of all cities named after Alexander the Great. In AD 335 a series of earthquakes and tidal waves, as well as the continuous slow subsiding…

…is with limits. An example of a particularly influential natural evil is the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. Many churches were destroyed, with the people inside being killed. Soon after the earthquake, killing one fifth of the population, a sea wave destroyed one half…