Wednesday, October 26, 2011

M7.2 Earthquake Strikes Turkey!

1.
   Q. What are the names of the two teconic plates whic are interracting to cause earthquakes in Turkey?
   A. Arabian Plate & Eurasian Plate

2.
   Q. What kind of plate boundary is it?
   A. Convergent

3.
  Q. What is the most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years?
  A. M 7.8 in 1939

Monday, October 10, 2011

Reading Prompt-Myanmar

-The people of China benefit from it because the Myitsone mega-dam project is exporting 90% of electricity to China.
- I can see why some of the people are against it, they are afraid of it breaking because it is near them, they are worried about the quality of the dam, and the independence of the project. Another issue for them is the resettlement and the role of the project because they think it might make the conflict between the military government and the Kachin people worse.
- I don't think that the author has an opinion about this because he/she doesn't state his/her view or what he/she thinks about it.  They are more trying to state the facts about the subject.