Homework: Coal Mining

What are the causes of explosions in coal mines? 

• Methane ignition
• Production over safety
• Workers were intimidates to tell officials what was really going on
• Many violations of laws
• Mining industries failed to conduct inspectors

How were families in the United States compensated for the deaths of their family members?

• Each family was paid 1.5 million dollars
• They were told that the safety of these mines would improve.

How does the compensation of the United States families compare to the compensation of Chinese families?

• Each family was paid 10,000 yuan for the expenses of the funeral
• Each family was then paid 660,000 yaun

Speculate about why miner safety conditions are so much worse in China:

• No one cares
• The government is run by a dictator and the dictator does not care
• Everyone is afraid to go against the beliefs of the dictator

Homework: Who was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon Disaster? What Would be "Justice" for the Responsible Party?

Who do you think was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster? Why?--
I think that the crew was most directly responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  The crew was directly responsible for the disaster because they were the ones who initially got the reading that something was wrong but ignored it.  There were things that could have been done to prevent it and they were not.

What would be "justice" for the responsible party?
Justice for the responsible party can not properly be served.  Now although the crew was responsible, 11 people died, and others were injured so the sympathy part of me says that they should not be responsible for the justice.  The people who would be responsible for the justice would be the company and people that make the regulations because there should have been regulations that keep things like misreadings from happening.

Homework: Turkey Earthquake

1.) What are the names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes in Turkey. 

• The names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes are named the Arabian Plate and Eurasian plate. 

2.) What kind of plate boundary is it? 

• The plates are convergent boundaries. 

3.) What is the most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years? 

• The most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years as a M7.8 earthquake that hit Erzincan in 1939.

Irrawaddy Myitsone Dam

If the construction project were to go through, only the people of China would have benefited from it.  The Chinese were the ones who would have constructed it and they 90% of the power it generated would have gone to China.  Now this is not only a turn away for the people of Burma, but there are also very large environmental impacts as well.  If the dam were to be built it would immerse cultural and historical sites, along with the birthplace of Burma.  It would also flood 766 kilometers of forests.  100 kilometers away is a fault line, so, if there was ever an earthquake, the possabilities of the dam craking are very high.  The opinion that this author has about this topic is that he is in favor for the construction being halted.  I know this because only cons were displayed not pros.

Steno's Principals:Layers in the Earth

 

In order:
Layer 4 was deposited
Layer 5 was deposited
Intrusion 2 formed
Layer 1 was deposited
Intrusion 3 formed
Earth cracked at fault B


I order the layers the way I did because of Steno's Principals.  In one of his principals. The Principal of Superposition, it says that layers of rock on the top are the youngest and layers of rock on the bottom are the oldest.  Because I knew of this principal, I knew that layer 4 was deposited first because it was on the bottom.  Then I knew that Layer 5 was deposited second because it was the "second layer" after layer 4.  Then another principal came into action.  This principal was the Principal of Cross Cutting Relationships.  Because of the principal, I knew that intrusion 2 was form.  After intrusion 2 was formed came the  Principal of Superposition again.  So the next layer that was deposited was layer 1.  After all of this the Principal of Cross Cutting Relationships came into effect again for intrusion 3.  Intrusion 3 came last because it cuts across all other layers that we formed and it was the last "layer" per say to be formed.  As for the earth cracked at fault B, I put it last because I did not know what order that went in.  I was unclear as to the order of the crack