{"id":1063,"date":"2013-04-02T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:00:35","slug":"forces-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2013\/04\/02\/forces-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Forces of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1067 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-2-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-2-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-2-468x300.png 468w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-2.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the National Geographic website, I found an interactive and informative activity called <a title=\"Forces of Nature\" href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/forces-of-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forces of Nature<\/a>. Not only can you read up on tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes, watch videos, view pictures, and learn about different case studies, but you can also improve your knowledge by causing a tornado, building a volcano, spinning off a hurricane, and setting off an earthquake. For example, to trigger an earthquake, you choose the ground type (bedrock, landfill, fault zone) that the building stands on, and the magnitude (low, high) of the earthquake, set it off, and see how the building responds to the earthquake. If a high magnitude earthquake occurs on a fault zone, for example, there will be significant displacement\u2014sometimes the building may collapse partially or entirely. This earthquake activity in particular reminded me of our discussion in class about the Mercalli Scale that measures the damage the earthquake does. <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/forces-of-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out all the Forces of Nature<\/a> and play around with the conditions to create either a moderate or deadly disturbance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1065 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-12-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-12-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-12-461x300.png 461w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2013\/04\/screen-capture-12.png 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/forces-of-nature\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the National Geographic website, I found an interactive and informative activity called Forces of Nature. Not only can you read up on tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes, watch videos, view pictures, and learn about different case studies, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2013\/04\/02\/forces-of-nature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,1044,1045,44773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-hydrosphere","category-lithosphere","category-spring-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}