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Alaska
Alaska (
i/əˈlæskə/) is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Alaska is the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($120 million in today's[when?] dollars) at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.
The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.
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Australia
Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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California
California (pronouncedi/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Chile
Chile (i/ˈtʃɪliː/ or /ˈtʃɪleɪ/), officially the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈtʃile] (
listen)), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Along with Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America that do not border Brazil. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi) of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
Chile's distinctive shape—4,300 kilometres (2,700 mi) long and on average 175 kilometres (109 mi) wide—makes it the longest country in the world, north to south, with the fifth lengthiest coastline at over 78 thousand kilometers. The diverse climate of Chile ranges from the world's driest desert in the north—the Atacama—through a Mediterranean climate in the centre, humid subtropical in Easter Island, to an Oceanic climate, including alpine tundra and glaciers in the east and south. The northern desert contains great mineral wealth, principally copper. The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions. Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands, and features a string of volcanoes and lakes. The southern coast is a labyrinth of fjords, inlets, canals, twisting peninsulas, and islands.
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Greece
Greecei/ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen) historically in Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas, IPA: [eˈlas] and [helːás] respectively), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe.Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country (its urban area also including Piraeus). The population of the country is around 11 million.
Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at 2,917 m (9,570 ft).
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Guatemala
Guatemala (i/ˌɡwɑːtəˈmɑːlə/ GWAH-tə-MAH-lə), officially the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: República de Guatemala [reˈpuβlika ðe ɣwateˈmala]), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. Its area is 108,890 km2 (42,043 mi2) with an estimated population of 13,276,517.
A representative democracy, its capital is Guatemala de la Asunción, also known as Guatemala City. Guatemala's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contributes to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The former Mayan civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization, which continued throughout the Post-Classic period until the arrival of the Spanish. The Mayas live in Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, the southern part of Mexico and northern parts of El Salvador.
Guatemala became independent from Spain in 1821, joining the Mexican Empire. After it became an independent country in its own right, it was ruled by a series of dictators, assisted by the United Fruit Company. The late 20th century saw Guatemala embroiled in a 36-year-long civil war. Following the war, Guatemala has witnessed both economic growth and successful democratic elections. In the most recent election, held in 2011, Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party, won the presidency.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (i/ˌɪndəˈniːʒə/ IN-də-NEE-zhə or /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ IN-doh-NEE-zee-ə), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia Indonesian pronunciation: [rɛpʊblɪk ɪndɔnɛsɪa]), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 17,508 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. The Indonesian economy is the world's 17th largest economy by nominal GDP.
The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers brought Christianity and fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change.
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Iran
Coordinates: 32°N 53°E / 32°N 53°E / 32; 53
Iran (i/ɪˈrɑːn/ or /aɪˈræn/;Persian: ایران [ʔiˈɾɒn] ( listen)), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān), is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran", which in Persian means "Land of the Aryans", has been in use natively since the Sassanian era. It came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia ( /ˈpɜrʒə/ or /ˈpɜrʃə/). Both "Persia" and "Iran" are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, "Iran" is the name used officially in political contexts.
The 18th-largest country in the world in terms of area at 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), Iran has a population of around 79 million. It is a country of particular geopolitical significance owing to its location in the Middle East and central Eurasia. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. As Iran is a littoral state of the Caspian Sea, which is an inland sea, Kazakhstan and Russia are also Iran's direct neighbors to the north. Iran is bordered on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by Iraq and on the northwest by Turkey. Tehran is the capital, the country's largest city and the political, cultural, commercial and industrial center of the nation. Iran is a regional power, and holds an important position in international energy security and world economy as a result of its large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Iran has the second largest proven natural gas reserves in the world and the fourth largest proven petroleum reserves.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Japan
Japan
i/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国 
Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Mexico
Mexico (i/ˈmɛksɨkoʊ/; Spanish: México, IPA: [ˈmexiko] ( listen)), officially the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (help·info)), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States of America; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the thirteenth largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of over 113 million, it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
In Pre-Columbian Mexico many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory from its base in México-Tenochtitlan, which was administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain. This territory would eventually become Mexico as the colony's independence was recognized in 1821. The post-independence period was characterized by economic instability, the Mexican-American War and territorial cession to the United States, a civil war, two empires and a domestic dictatorship. The latter led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910, which culminated with the promulgation of the 1917 Constitution and the emergence of the country's current political system. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time that an opposition party won the presidency from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Mexico City
Mexico City ( /ˈmɛksɨkoʊ ˈsɪti/; Spanish: Ciudad de México [sjuˈðað ðe ˈmexiko], also known as México D.F., or simply D.F.) is the Federal District (Distrito Federal), capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country's largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center.
As an "alpha" global city Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in North America. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen boroughs.
The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was around 8.84 million people, and has a land area of 1,485 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Mexico City metropolitan area population is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the fifth largest agglomeration in the world.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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Pakistan
Pakistan (i/ˈpækɨstæn/ or i/pɑːkiˈstɑːn/; Urdu: پاکستان) (Urdu pronunciation: [paːkɪˈst̪aːn] (
listen)), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان), is a sovereign country in South Asia. It sits at the crossroads of the strategically important regions of South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west and north, Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast. It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north, and it shares a marine border with Oman.
The territory of modern Pakistan was the site of several ancient cultures, including the Neolithic Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, and has undergone invasions or settlements by Hindu, Persian, Indo-Greek, Islamic, Turco-Mongol, Afghan and Sikh cultures. Thus the area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties, including the Indian Mauryan Empire, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Arab Umayyad Caliphate, the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Durrani Empire, the Sikh Empire and the British Empire. As a result of the Pakistan Movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and India's struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent nation for Muslims from the regions in the east and west of India where there was a Muslim majority. Initially a dominion, Pakistan adopted a new constitution in 1956, becoming an Islamic republic. A civil war in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh.
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Peru
Perui/pəˈruː/ (Spanish: Perú; Quechua: Perú;Aymara: Piruw), officially the Republic of Peru (Spanish: República del Perú, pronounced: [reˈpuβlika ðel peˈɾu] ( listen)), is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Peruvian territory was home to ancient cultures, spanning from the Norte Chico civilization, one of the oldest in the world, to the Inca Empire, the largest state in Pre-Columbian America. The Spanish Empire conquered the region in the 16th century and established a Viceroyalty, which included most of its South American colonies. After achieving independence in 1821, Peru has undergone periods of political unrest and fiscal crisis as well as periods of stability and economic upswing.
Peru is a representative democratic republic divided into 25 regions. Its geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast to the peaks of the Andes Mountains and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. It is a developing country with a high Human Development Index score and a poverty level around 31%. Its main economic activities include agriculture, fishing, mining, and manufacturing of products such as textiles.
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Portugal
Portugali/ˈpɔrtʃʉɡəl/ (Portuguese: Portugal, IPA: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa) is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula . Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are part of Portugal. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.
The land within the borders of the current Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times: occupied by Celts like the Gallaeci and the Lusitanians, integrated into the Roman Republic and later settled by Germanic peoples such as the Suebi, Swabians, Vandals and the Visigoths. In the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, which were later expelled by the Knights Templar under the Order of Christ. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation state.
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Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound, which contains numerous small islands, include Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native villages of Chenega and Tatitlek.
It was named by George Vancouver in 1778 to honour George III's son William IV of the United Kingdom.
Most of the land surrounding Prince William Sound is part of the Chugach National Forest, the second largest national forest in the U.S. Prince William Sound is ringed by the steep and glaciated Chugach Mountains. The coastline is convoluted, with many islands and fjords, several of which contain tidewater glaciers. The principal barrier islands forming the sound are Montague Island, Hinchinbrook Island, and Hawkins Island.
James Cook entered Prince William Sound in 1778 and named it Sandwich Sound, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich. The editors of Cook's maps changed the name to Prince William Sound, in honor of Prince William, who would later become King William IV.
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San Andreas fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 810 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The fault was first identified in Northern California by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas. After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Lawson also discovered that the San Andreas Fault stretched southward into southern California. Large-scale (hundreds of miles) lateral movement along the fault was first proposed in a 1953 paper by geologists Mason Hill and Thomas Dibblee.
The San Andreas Fault can be divided into three segments.
The southern segment (known as the Mojave segment) begins near Bombay Beach, California. Box Canyon, near the Salton Sea, contains upturned strata resulting from that section of the fault. The fault then runs along the southern base of the San Bernardino Mountains, crosses through the Cajon Pass and continues to run northwest along the northern base of the San Gabriel Mountains. These mountains are a result of movement along the San Andreas Fault and are commonly called the Transverse Range. In Palmdale, a portion of the fault is easily examined as a roadcut for the Antelope Valley Freeway runs directly through it.
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San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 810 miles (1,300 km) through California in the United States. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip (horizontal motion). It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The fault was first identified in Northern California by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas. After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Lawson also discovered that the San Andreas Fault stretched southward into southern California. Large-scale (hundreds of miles) lateral movement along the fault was first proposed in a 1953 paper by geologists Mason Hill and Thomas Dibblee.
The San Andreas Fault can be divided into three segments.
The southern segment (known as the Mojave segment) begins near Bombay Beach, California. Box Canyon, near the Salton Sea, contains upturned strata resulting from that section of the fault. The fault then runs along the southern base of the San Bernardino Mountains, crosses through the Cajon Pass and continues to run northwest along the northern base of the San Gabriel Mountains. These mountains are a result of movement along the San Andreas Fault and are commonly called the Transverse Range. In Palmdale, a portion of the fault is easily examined as a roadcut for the Antelope Valley Freeway runs directly through it.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 陕西; traditional Chinese: 陝西; pinyin: Shǎnxī; Wade–Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province. Shaanxi is the historical home, along with Gansu of the dialect of the Dungans, of the Hui people, who emigrated out of China to Central Asia.
By regular Hanyu Pinyin rules, if tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighbouring province of Shanxi, to the east of Shaanxi, should be spelled "Shanxi"; the difference is in tone: Shānxī (山西) and Shǎnxī (陕西). To make the difference clear without tonal marks, the spelling "Shaanxi" was contrived (following the romanization system of Yuen Ren Chao) for the province of Shǎnxī, while "Shanxi" is used for the province of Shānxī. Shaanxi is the official spelling on Chinese Government's official web portal. This makes "Shaanxi" the only name of Chinese provinces that has not been romanized according to pinyin rules.
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Sicily
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia, [siˈtʃiːlja]; [sɪˈɕilja]) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana (Sicilian Autonomous Region).
Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean. It extends from the tip of the Apennine peninsula from which it is separated only by the narrow Strait of Messina, towards the North African coast. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which is at 3,320 m (10,890 ft) the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.
The earliest archeological evidence of human dwelling on the island dates from 8000 BC. At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily often changed hands, and during the early Middle Ages it was ruled in turn by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. Later on, the Kingdom of Sicily lasted between 1130 and 1816, subordinated to the crowns of Aragon, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and finally the Bourbons, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It was united with the rest of Italy in 1860, but a subsequent economic collapse led to a wave of emigration, separatism, and the emergence of the Mafia, whose criminal activities pose problems to this day. After the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan (i/tɑːˈdʒiːkɨstɑːn/, /təˈdʒiːkɨstæn/, or /tæˈdʒiːkiːstæn/; Тоҷикистон [ˈtɔjikɪsˈtɔn]), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Cumhuriyi Tocikiston; Persian: جمهوری تاجیکستان Jomhuri-ye Tajikestan; Russian: Республика Таджикистан, Respublika Tadzhikistan), is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. Gilgit Baltistan as well as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan are separated from Tajikistan by the narrow Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan in the south.
Most of Tajikistan's population belongs to the Persian-speaking Tajik ethnic group, who share language, culture and history with Afghanistan and Iran. Once part of the Samanid Empire, Tajikistan became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union in the 20th century, known as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR). Mountains cover over 90% of this Central Asian republic.
After independence, Tajikistan suffered from a devastating civil war which lasted from 1992 to 1997. Since the end of the war, newly established political stability and foreign aid have allowed the country's economy to grow. Trade in commodities such as cotton, aluminium and uranium has contributed greatly to this steady improvement.
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Tehran
Tehran ( pronunciation (help·info)) (Persian: تهران Tehrān; pronounced [tehˈɾɒːn]), sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, the largest city in Western Asia, one of the largest in Southern Asia, and the 19th-largest city globally.
In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to mass-migration of people from all around Iran. The city is home to many historic mosques, churches, synagogues and Zoroastrian fire temples. Contemporary Tehran is a modern city featuring many structures, of which the Azadi (Freedom) Tower and the Milad Tower have come to be symbols of Tehran itself. In 2008 Tehran was the least expensive capital in the world and the second-least expensive city globally based on the cost-of-living index presenting the best value for money in the world. Globally it stands 19th by city population, 56th by the size of its GDP and 29th by the population of its metropolitan area. Throughout Iran's history, the capital city has been relocated many times, with Tehran being the 32nd national capital of Iran. Persian is the city's native tongue, with roughly 98% of the population able to speak and understand it. The majority of people in Tehran identify themselves as Persians. In pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Tehran was called Ray (which in the Avesta occurs in the form of Ragha)[citation needed].
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō?, "Eastern Capital") [toːkʲoː], English /ˈtoʊki.oʊ/; officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to?), is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of the world. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture (東京府, Tōkyō-fu?) and the city of Tokyo (東京市, Tōkyō-shi?).
The Tokyo Metropolitan government administers the 23 special wards of Tokyo (each governed as a city), which cover the area that was the city of Tokyo, as well as 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 13 million. The prefecture is part of the world's most populous metropolitan area with upwards of 35 million people and the world's largest urban agglomeration economy with a GDP of US$1.479 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2008, ahead of New York City metropolitan area, which ranks second on the list. The city hosts 47 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest amount of any city.
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Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between East Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. The vast majority of the population are Muslims. The country's official language is Turkish, whereas Kurdish and Zazaki languages are spoken by Kurds and Zazas, who constitute 18% of the population.
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Usoi Dam
The Usoi Dam is a natural landslide dam along the Murghab River in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. At 567 metres (1,860 ft) high, it is the tallest dam in the world, either natural or man-made. The dam was created on February 18, 1911, when the 7.4-Ms Sarez earthquake caused a massive landslide that blocked the flow of the river.
The dam is formed of approximately 2 cubic kilometres (0.48 cu mi) of rock dislodged from the steeply sloped river valley of the Murghab, which cuts from east to west through the high and rough Pamir Mountains. It is named after the village of Usoi, which was completely buried by the 1911 landslide. The dam rises to a height of 500 to 700 metres (1,600 to 2,300 ft) from the original valley floor.
The basin formed by Usoi Dam now holds Sarez Lake, a 55.8-kilometre (34.7 mi)-long lake holding 16.074 cubic kilometres (13,031,000 acre·ft) of water. Water does not flow over the top of the dam, which would quickly cause it to erode away; instead, water seeps out of the base of the dam at a rate which approximately matches the rate of inflow, maintaining the lake at a relatively constant level.
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles.
Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force. He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation respectively.
Anaxagoras appears to have had some amount of property and prospects of political influence in his native town of Clazomenae in Asia Minor. However, he supposedly surrendered both of these out of a fear that they would hinder his search for knowledge. Valerius Maximus preserves a different tradition: Anaxagoras, coming home from a long voyage, found his property in ruin, and said: "If this had not perished, I would have." A sentence, denoted by Maximus, as being "possessed of sought-after wisdom!". Although a Greek, he may have been a soldier of the Persian army when Clazomenae was suppressed during the Ionian Revolt.
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Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg (June 4, 1889 – January 25, 1960) was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science. He was a colleague and mentor of Charles Francis Richter at the California Institute of Technology and Richter's collaborator in developing the Richter magnitude scale for measuring an earthquake's magnitude.
Gutenberg was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and obtained his doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen in 1911. His advisor was Emil Wiechert. During the World War I, Gutenberg served in the German army as a meteorologist in support of gas warfare operations. Gutenberg held positions at the University of Strasbourg which he lost when Strasbourg became French in 1918. After some years where he had to sustain himself with managing his father's soap factory, he obtained in 1926 a junior professorship at University of Frankfurt-am-Main, which was poorly paid.
Although he was already, in the 1920s, one of the leading seismologists worldwide and definitely the leading seismologist in Germany, he was then still dependent on the position in his father's factory, yet he continued his research in his spare time. In 1928, the attempt to become the successor of his academic teacher Emil Wiechert in Göttingen failed. There are hints that Gutenberg's Jewish background might have played a role because, already in the 1920s, there were strong antisemitic tendencies in German universities. For similar reasons, he was also not accepted for a professorship in Potsdam to become the successor of Gustav Angenheister.
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Daniel Schechter
Daniel S. Schechter (born in Miami, Florida in 1962) is an American psychiatrist currently living in Geneva, Switzerland. He is known for his clinical work and research on intergenerational transmission or "communication" of violent trauma and related psychopathology involving parents and very young children. His published work in this area following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York of September 11, 2001 led to a co-edited book entitled "September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds" (2003) and additional original articles with clinical psychologist Susan Coates that were translated into multiple languages and remain among the very first accounts of 9/11 related loss and trauma described by mental health professionals who also experienced the attacks and their aftermath Schechter observed that separation anxiety among infants and young children who had either lost or feared loss of their caregivers triggered posttraumatic stress symptoms in the surviving caregivers. These observations validated his prior work on the adverse impact of family violence on the early parent-child relationship, formative social-emotional development and related attachment disturbances involving mutual dysregulation of emotion and arousal. This body of work on trauma and attachment has been cited by prominent authors in the attachment theory, psychological trauma, and developmental psychobiology literatures
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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹, Murakami Haruki?, born January 12, 1949) is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the Jerusalem Prize, among others.
Murakami's fiction, often criticized by Japan's literary establishment, is humorous and surreal, focusing on themes of alienation and loneliness. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature. The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his works and achievements.
Murakami was born in Japan during the post–World War II baby boom. Although born in Kyoto, he spent his youth in Shukugawa (Nishinomiya), Ashiya and Kobe. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, and his mother the daughter of an Osaka merchant. Both taught Japanese literature.
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a wide range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan. These Western influences often distinguish Murakami from other Japanese writers.
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Jim Shepard
Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.
Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978 and an MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. His wife, Karen Shepard, is also a novelist. They are on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
Shepard's work has been published in McSweeney's, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares,Triquarterly, and Playboy. His short story collection — Like You'd Understand, Anyway — won the Story Prize in 2008, and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. The novel Project X won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Along with writing novels and short stories, Shepard has also drafted two screenplays, one about Kenneth Donaldson and the O'Connor v. Donaldson case, and the other a movie adaptation of Project X.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:
Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The prevailing wind would not allow his ship to leave the shore. His companions attributed his collapse and death to toxic fumes; but they were unaffected by the fumes, suggesting natural causes.
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Snorri Sturluson
Snorre Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga.
As a historian and mythographer, Snorri is remarkable for proposing the theory (in the Prose Edda) that mythological gods begin as human war leaders and kings whose funeral sites develop cults (see euhemerism). As people call upon the dead war leader as they go to battle, or the dead king as they face tribal hardship, they begin to venerate the figure. Eventually, the king or warrior is remembered only as a god. He also proposed that as tribes defeat others, they explain their victory by proposing that their own gods were in battle with the gods of the others.[citation needed]
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Susan Coates
Susan W. Coates (born 1940) is an American psychologist known for her work on gender identity disorder in children (GIDC) and trauma in early childhood.
Coates earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, her MA from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
In the 1970s Coates began publishing on Field dependence-independence (FDI) using the Preschool Embedded Figures Test that she developed based on Herman Witkin's Embedded Figures Test. This led to work on cognitive and behavioral sex differences in humans.
Coates served as Director of the Childhood Gender Identity Service at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center from 1980 to 1997. Coates said of her therapeutic intervention for gender identity disorder in children, "With therapy, younger kids usually come to accept their own gender and feel good about their temperament. When we go back to evaluate them three years or so after therapy, they don't have compulsive cross-gender fantasies anymore, or often don't remember them. But if you don't treat it until 9 or 10, it's much harder to turn around. And beyond age 12 or so, there's a good chance they're on course to become a transsexual as adults." Coates has stated that maternal trauma when the child was two or three was often a factor, and that five to thirty times as many boys are treated for GIDC. Coates believes that when gender is appropriated in preschool children to solve issues of trauma or a derailed or disorganized attachment relationship the child and family need help to resolve the trauma and to restore a secure attachment relationship.[citation needed] With this resolution children can become comfortable with who they are and restore their natural creative nature.[citation needed]
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Thales
Thales of Miletus ( /ˈθeɪliːz/; Greek: Θαλῆς, Thalēs; c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. According to Bertrand Russell, "Western philosophy begins with Thales." Thales attempted to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology and was tremendously influential in this respect. Almost all of the other pre-Socratic philosophers follow him in attempting to provide an explanation of ultimate substance, change, and the existence of the world—without reference to mythology. Those philosophers were also influential, and eventually Thales' rejection of mythological explanations became an essential idea for the scientific revolution. He was also the first to define general principles and set forth hypotheses, and as a result has been dubbed the "Father of Science", though it is argued that Democritus is actually more deserving of this title.
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Earthquake Filmography
- The Cheaters Club (2013)
- Funny: The Documentary (2012)
- Phunny Business: A Black Comedy (2010)
- Something Like a Business (2010)
- 17th Annual Trumpet Awards (2009)
- All Star Comedy Jam: Live from South Beach (2009)
- TV One's Roast and Toast: John Witherspoon (2009)
- Yappy Broads (2009)
- Black to the Future (2009)
- The Longshots (2008)
- Laffapalooza! (2008)
- Laffapalooza! (2008)
- Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' (2006)
- Train Wreck! (2006)
- Getting Played (2006)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Barnyard (2006)
- One Night Stand (2005)
- Earthquake: About Got Damm Time (2005)
- Earthquake: About Got Damm Time (2005)
- TV's Illest Minority Moments Presented by Ego Trip (2004)
- Earthquake (2004)
- Latham Entertainment Presents (2003)
- Uncensored Comedy: That's Not Funny! (2003)
Earthquake Filmography
- Vanilla Ice Archive (2012)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
- Play That Funky Music (1990)
- Play That Funky Music (1990)
- Lil' Wayne
- Wyclef Jean
- Ronnie Milsap
- The Used
- Used
- House Of Pain
- Family Force 5
- Batmobile
- Skylark
- Spacehog
- Hit The Lights
- Deerhunter
- Leona Naess
- Trae Tha Truth
- Matt Cab
- Little Boots
- Mickey Newbury
- 13th Floor Elevators
- Dawn Of The Dude
- Munga Honourable
- Munga
- Art Of Fighters
karaoke
Speak to them Jazze
Yea fly guy
I, I'm way more fly than you
(That's right)
I'll take your dime from you
(That's right)
Now she wanna spend all night with me
(She wanna wake up with Weezy F, baby)
Let me be the one that you roll into
(Throw it back ma, throw it back, throw it back, throw it back ma)
Baby, I'd like to spend the rest of my night with you
(So how 'bout you? So how 'bout you?)
I'll take your bitch give her back, take your bitch again
That's because you throw a 5, I pitch a 10
Now she wanna get inside of my '66
She see that my wrist is blue and yellow like Michigan
She say she love her man, she misses him
But nobody do it better than her distant dick, me
I'm her long distance pimp
When I land my bitches wait for me on the strip, yup
And I don't lie, I confess
I'm the one who turn that orange vest to a dress dough
Gotta dress to impress though, gotta stay clean
Plus momma in a Lex 4
She with me, what you expect? I live to be fly to death
It's the Bird Man junior, sincerely yours
When it rains it pours, when it rain it whores
Jazze, c'mon
I, I'm way more fly than you
(That's right)
I'll take your dime from you
(That's right)
Now she wanna spend all night with me
(She wanna wake up with Weezy F, baby)
Let me be the one that you roll with too
(Throw it back ma, throw it back, throw it back, throw it back ma)
Baby, I'd like to spend the rest of my night with you, baby
(So how 'bout you? So how 'bout you?)
Now why you wanna go do that?
I can see through that
Tattoo right there, like I can't view that
Girl, what that? Say wait, who that?
Bet he was lame, bet he not Lil' Wayne, no
'Coz I'm way more flyer
Have you hangin' 'round a bunch of yayo buyers, nope
And not a day go by us
We don't get higher than the telephone wires
Cut your telephone off, we ridin' where phones don't roam
They don't even come on
You're far from home so leave it alone
You creepin' with the king of the throne
You sleepin' in a tee and a thong, with your hair in a pony
I ain't got no blinds, we can stare at the morning, yup
But I can't be there all mornin'
I'm a pimp baby, I'm going, going, gone
I, I'm way more fly than you
(That's right)
I'll take your dime from you
(That's right)
Now she wanna spend all night with me
(She wanna wake up with Weezy F, baby)
Let me be the one that you roll with too
(Throw it back ma, throw it back, throw it back, throw it back ma)
Baby, I'd like to spend the rest of my night with you
(So how 'bout you? So how 'bout you?)
I'm sorry I was groovin'
Gotta love that laid back mannie fresh music
But let's get back to what we was doing
Laid back in that black on plat Ewing's
That's 33 weak tires, he fire
These streets ain't papaya ma
You gotta keep heat on your side 2 must
So I'm a get 3 more and cop you one, wait
Naw hun 'coz you ain't exempt
If your ass ever trip, I'll give you a clip, yea
But I love the way your jeans suck in your hip
And you walk kinda mean how you strut with a dip
And you talk kinda clean and you lick your lips
But I can't fall for you 'coz I stick to the script, yup
I said "I stick to my grip, I stick to my money, that's life to me
Sorry honey, Jazze"
I, I'm way more fly than you
(That's right)
I'll take your dime from you
(That's right)
Now she wanna spend all night with me
(She wanna wake up with Weezy F, baby, damn)
Let me be the one that you roll with too
(Throw it back ma, throw it back, throw it back, throw it back ma)
Baby, I'd like to spend the rest of my night with you
(So how 'bout you? So how 'bout you?)
So how 'bout you?
So how 'bout you?
See what I'm talking bout sweet heart
You ain't even gotta have John Madden
You ain't gotta have Dick Vitale, you ain't gotta Lee Carsole
You ain't gotta have Stuart Scott, you ain't gotta have Linda Cohn
Know what I'm talkin' 'bout?
You ain't gotta have the staff of ESPN
You ain't gotta have the ABC staff just to speak sports baby
'Coz I got game sweetheart
Just fuck with your boy and I'll get you a jersey
What you want me to put on the bag?
Daddy's little girl, that's right
Know what I'm talking 'bout?
See I can't give you the game but I can show you the game
And you can see what you see and peek how you peek
And see what you get
Know what I'm talking 'bout?
Earthquake, down there in Haiti
Earthquake in the past of Chile
Earthquake in the Indonesia
Earthquake in the China
Earthquake is coming to America
Earthquakes are there in California
Earthquake warn ya people in the city
That the Earth is getting angry
And I asked Earth what have we done
She said we building too much bombs
So there's too many sons that won't see their father
Too many daughters that won't see their mother
Too many grandmas that won't see their grandkids
They are in the rubble in Port au Prince
Earthquake, down there in Haiti
Earthquake in the past of Chile
Earthquake in the Indonesia
Earthquake in the China
Earthquake is coming to America
Earthquakes out there in California
Earthquake warn ya people in the city
That the Earth is getting angry
That's when the earth started talking rude (so rude)
Say she's thirteen she's a prostitute
I tried to beg for the young girl's life
But when the earthquake came it took her to the other side
Then I asked her who's next?
She said, those that's polluting the planet
They killing everything moving, flowers and abusing mankind
And the only thing left is Armageddon
Earthquake, down there in Haiti
Earthquake in the past of Chile
Earthquake in the Indonesia
Earthquake in the China
Earthquake is coming to America
Earthquakes out there in California
Earthquake warn ya people in the city
That the Earth is getting angry
And as much as we take it for granted
We might not have no better lie in tonight
We be taking for granted
Our kids might get no ice-cream tonight
In this road we taking for granted
We might not kiss our loved ones tonight
If we want the Earth to be better, lets start spreading love
On the planet called Earth
Lets start spreading some goodness, on the planet called earth
Lets start spreading some kindness, oh yeah
Let's get rid of the weekenders
Mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm
Now hit me! Ooh-yeah! Hooh!
Ooh-ee baby, don't you know you set my soul on fi-ire
You're like a double scoop o' ice cream
Sittin' on top of a cherry pie-ie
Ooh-ee baby, don't you know you make me lose control
Come on over to me mamma, let me feel your rock 'n'
roll
'Cause you know you got what it takes
To make my body shake - just like an earthquake
You shake my body dow-ow-ow-own
Like an earthquake - you shake my body dow-ow-ow-own
Ooh-ee baby, I'm a twitchin' and a tremblin' insi-ide
You've got me covered up in love
I'm buried in your landsli-ide
Ooh-ee baby, I'm a livin' in a danger zone, yeah
I'm in a cold-cold sweat and my mouth is dry as a bone
'Cause you know you've got what it takes
To make my body shake - just like an earthquake, wooh
You shake my body dow-ow-ow-ow-own
I said an earthquake - you shake my body dow-ow-ow-own
Ooh, a hurricane ain't got nothin' on you-ou, no
'Cause you blow me away, there's nothin' I can say or
do-oo-oo
Except shake-shake (like an earthquake)
Shake-shake (like an earthquake)
I just shake-shake (like an earthquake)
Shake-shake (like an earthquake)
Harmonica comin' in - Oh Lord - wooh
Oh-oh-oh, a hurricane, ain't got nothin' on you-ou-ou
'Cause you blow me away, there's nothin' I can say or
do-oo-oo
Except shake-shake (like an earthquake)
I just shake-shake (like an earthquake)
Shake-shake (like an earthquake), shake-shake (like an
earthquake)
Shake-shake (earthquake), shake-shake (earthquake)
You got me shakin' and tremblin' (like an earthquake)
Oh Lord, shake-shake (like an earthquake)
She had an earthquake on her mind
I almost heard her cry out as I left her far behind
and knew the world was crashing down around her
I sink to the ocean floor because I know that we are more but
I've made this mess
I built this fire, Are you still mine?
She had an earthquake on her mind apparently the kind that would
bury us alive
by putting all this weight on us forever
I lie here on the ocean floor broken castle by the shore and
I made this mess
I built this fire, Are you still mine?
Let me save us
I've slaughtered us, I've murdered our love
I can taste it, This blood in my mouth
This knife in my lungs
Have I murdered our love?
Please be all mine
Cause baby I'm not all right when you go
I'm not fine, Please be all mine
I never want you to go because I am all yours so please be all mine.
She had an earthquake on her mind
I almost heard her cry out as I left her far behind
and knew the world was crashing down around her
I sink now to the ocean floor because I know that we are more but
I've made this mess
I built this fire, Are you still mine?
'Cause baby I'm not alright when you go I'm not fine
please be all mine
I never want you to go
because I am all yours, so please be all mine
She had an earthquake on her mind
apparently the kind that would bury us alive
by putting all this weight on us forever
I lie here on the ocean floor broken castle by the shore and
I made this mess
I built this fire, Are you still mine?
'Cause baby I'm not alright when you go I'm not fine
please be all mine
I never want you to go
because I am all yours, so please be all mine
Let me save us
I've slaughtered us, I've murdered our love
I can taste it, this blood in my mouth
This knife in my lungs
have I murdered our love?
have I murdered our love?
'Cause baby I'm not alright when you go I'm not fine
please be all mine
I never want you to go
because I am all yours, so please be all mine
'Cause baby I'm not alright when you..
..baby I'm not alright when you go
Please be all mine
I never want you to go
because I am all yours, so please be all mine
(Yes yes ya'll)
(Cause I'm so fly)
(Everlast be the apple of your Earth's eye)
I be breakin the laws, breakin the laws
All you wannabe hard rocks just pause
It's the MC host
Space ghost from the coast
With piggish white skin
Kid, where you been
I got a blue eye
But my tight lenght devil
I freak harmonies
Like my brother is Nevel
And I can rock
Through your style
Eatin cold hardy stew
So whachya wanna do
I'm comin real soon
To a theatre near you
So why dont you cratique me
While I'm love on stage
Cause I'm gonna break my
Rusty cage, my rusty cage
Watch the way I freak it
When I bust my gage
Cause all that loud gun talk
Dont mean squat
If my tool gets hot
I'm a burst your knot
And give it all I got
Up in your wisdom slot
And cold and rains
couldnt stop her
From callin me poppa
Big daady draw dropper
Mr.Heart breaker
She leaves Mary Poppins
And comes home Seka
Yes yes ya'll
Cause I'm so fly (so fly)
Everlast be the apple of your Earth's eye
Yes yes ya'll
Cause we dont fake (dont fake)
And he's down to come to feel your earthquake
Socalize a little somethin'
And you sweatin my style
Challenge my world
You wanna shell my mix
You wanna sit with my flesh
And reconize the tesh
Ya never seen this niggers best
A marage, a nest
I hit your head with styles that are liquid
You drip this
Sweat this
Perspired is desired, this wetness
You get from Divine style
Spark this girl, chill
I see you got the love, the lust
So why dont you live my cosmos exodus
To my precous
I'm a undress my message
Into my wisdom body
To my wisdom method
You need a star for your cresent
I got a diablo brass
For your atmosphere
My (a) dope mathamatics
Are soak like Insin-sincere
Uh, baby
For my apparatus
I do justice to your physical
Annoint your aider
never spendin your nobler
A hard slyle at stages
While the guard be sparkin that indo seed
The Earth pieces be increasin
That need to be pleased
I represent the illest villans
And the worst of bad breeze
Ah baby,
If you wanna next my vision
You better come with subject of vision
I keep it real live
Keep it real straight
To the Earthly
Feel this style Earthquake
My love's stronger than pride
My loves thicker than blood
My killer swarm's in effect
Nobodys livin off hud
If you miss with his gun
I'll run a patriot gig
I'll have you flippin your wing
I'll put the clip in my sink
And cock the hammer back
Click Clack
Put a hole in your back
The size of a plum
You can come git some
But my attitude shitty
Like G Gordon Litty
Take pity on a child
Thats been raised in the city
Chill- From East to West
To maintain my rep
So many times
To assume my flow
I go mono, stereo
Or solo
You never know
Choose a flow
And I'll throw the phattest atom
I'm so hot, and so law
And so far from the plan
I reflectulate the ladies
That be scannin
My composition decirclar
GET DOWN!!!!
I saw shawty dancin' on the floor
I'm kind of nervous to approach her though
she's so stylish like a supermodel
Should I meet her (Yes I think you oughta)
The needle dropped
My track was hot
we began to rock
Our eyes were locked
I LUV UR SONG
Yeah gurl sing along
She said DJ's MAKE MY HEARTACHE
I said Baby watch the place shake like an Earthquake
Drop that 8o8
The wall's begin to shake
It's to much for the club to take
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
Devastation from the sounds I'm makin'
And there's no escaping from the bass
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
10.0 on the richter scale
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
Move ur tail
Bout that time my people all were quakin'
another 10.0 was in the makin'
Like a natural disaster
Run for the pasture
Cause the bass will flow
Take you out like El Nino
It's rumbling, crumbling, all the way down
It's tumbling, fumbling, You love that sound
CAN YOU TURN UP THE BASS?
Sorry gurl I can't hear in this place
I HAVE A REQUEST THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE!
Well, what you wanna hear gurl? Shake like an Earthquake?
Drop that 8o8
The wall's begin to shake
It's to much for the club to take
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
Devastation from the sounds I'm makin'
And there's no escaping from the Bass
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
10.0 on the richter scale
It's shakin' like an Earthquake
Move ur tail
Ready?! OK!!!!
Boom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now build it up,
build it up, build it up
Boom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now shake it up,
shake it up, shake it up
Boom boom, you broke it down, you broke it down, now break it up,
break it up, break it up, WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
SHAKE IT ON DOWN
Earthquake
I’m gonna tell you a story it’s a long long time ago
Two old timer-mammoths they were stealing the show
Crashing to eachother with all their might
It was an earthquake
Crash into each other with all their might
It feels just like the first time like the first time when you’re making love
The stars and the planets are falling from above
This feeling that makes you wanna explode
That’’s your earthquake
That burning feeling makes you want to explode
If you hear our rocking music and you feel that rocking beat
There ain’t nothing you can do than just move your arms and feet
This music’s more explosive than TNT
It’s an earthquake
It’s more explosive than TNT
So now you know what to do what to do when you wanna quake
Rock and love so hard that your body wants to shake
Let yourself go and have a real good time
Have an earthquake
[Musica e testi: Eddy Antonini]
[Belzebu:]
The earth is swallowing, the sky is falling;
watch out White Warrior: Belzebu is coming!!!
(Royston Langdon)
*While traveling in New Zealand one summer, Roy was caught in an earthquake and wrote a song about it. This song is one out of several that Roy wrote during his trip. The last two lines are a joke between the band members and stand for an English delicacy.*
It's funny how we think that things are one way
But they will always be that way somehow
Back when I was a boy I knew that someday
I'll learn my lesson and we'll have learned it now
(Chorus)
Whoa people are crazy
And I know why
Keeping it on if we'll only try
Don't wait for heaven's sake
For the Earthquake
It's funny how we leave the blues behind you
You can take them with you when you go
Laughing like a child without a reason
And I shout for the greatest show on Earth
(Chorus) x 3
The Earthquake, quake, quake
Beans on toast!
Beans on toast!
I've got some big dreams
Somehow it's harder to believe,
That we only exist
Wanna be more than this,
Nothing can stop me
Do you feel the shaking ground?
This world is mine for the taking,
Mine for the taking
This is the moment now
Oh, I know I can make it,
Swear I can make it
I'll make the Earth quake
A million people scream my name
They're saying, "Sing us a song
that will right all the wrongs,
and make some hearts break."
Do you feel the shaking ground?
This world is mine for the taking,
Mine for the taking
This is the moment now
Oh, I know I can make it,
Swear I can make it
I'll make the Earth quake
I'll make the Earth quake
Even power lines can't hold me down
Even gravity can't pull me down
Do you feel the shaking ground?
This world is mine for the taking,
Mine for the taking
This is the moment now
Oh, I know I can make it,
Swear I can make it
I'll make the Earth quake
I'll make the Earth quake
Well this is the moment now
I know I can make it,
Swear I can make it
I'll make the Earth quake
Do you recall waking up on a dirty couch in the grey fog
And the grey dog barking down the street?
Columns shake your feet
Beneath your feet.
Do you recall - your face was white as all?
Do you bone the sheets?
Baby, there's no sense in this, crazy
Why bring him to us to take him away?
Well, they'll be no more holidays in this house
If there is a God, he's playing cat and mouse
With you in my arms to fall into, babe
He was like the delicate lace
From a snowflake with a will to live
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
Like an earthquake find your peace of mind
Baby, there are times when I thought
I'd be where you stand
So I guess, I can only fail to understand
Your pain
He was like the delicate lace
From a snowflake with a will to live
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
Like an earthquake find your peace of mind
No Christmas trees or the change of autumn leaves
Will ever lose his breath in you
And when has someone passed away too fast
But still left his prints on you
Baby, there'll be no more holidays in this house
If there is a God, he's playing cat and mouse with you
He was like the delicate lace
From a snowflake with the will to live
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
Like an earthquake, he'll drive you to your knees
I am in 2011 still screwed up
Thrown .. like it is about to be the up
Fu-k the world I swear they fu-ked my mood up
And the recession the people f-cking my food up
I hear bleed and tell him to put his dogs on it
.. told him to put his .. on it
Ne dreams MB but I play the game
I play the B you mother fu-kers know the name
I am talking all night sit on white bricks
.. I need this nights fix
Bitches trying to see I tell them to look harder
Be the .. leave you'll never be a starter
I only love money that's why the nigger hustle
Million dollar crib yeah bitch I really hustle
100% real I don't know how to fake
F-ck with me and get your earthquake
I am moving slow getting fast money
Move .. and I'll put you on your ass dummy
I am a G I'm gonna take you whatever
Let the 90 hit up the block and .. whatever
Haters .. tripping like they know balance
Money and .. balance
F-ck it all I know is that I am getting dope
I am blowing slow back door and go hunting for more
You can find me in the ..
Try to move it to a couple states
I am gonna need a couple breaks
[Verse 1:]
She got me goin' crazy
Thinkin' about the things we used to be
All the things she meant to me
How she said she'd never leave
Don't know how it happened
But it seemed like it was yesterday
When everything I did made you smile
[Hook:]
And now I don't know left from right
You turned my whole world upside down
So won't you come save me now?
So won't you come save me?
[Chorus: x2]
It's like an earthquake
Shaking up the way I loved you
Wanna come to your rescue
But I'm no longer loved
I said I'm no longer loved
[Verse 2:]
I wish I could question why
To the days when you were mine, yeah
I'd throw back the hands of time
And everything would just be fine, yeah
But everything's so messed up now
How'd it get so complicated?
We were like a work of art
But girl somehow it faded
And now I don't know left from right
You turned my world upside down
So won't you come save me now
So won't you come save me?
[x2:]
It's like an earthquake
Shaking up the way I loved you
Wanna come to your rescue
But I'm no longer loved
I said I'm no longer loved
[Bridge:]
It's all crashing down like an earthquake
It's all crashing down like an earthquake
It's all crashing down like an earthquake
Like an earthquake, So won't you come save me?
[x2:]
It's like an earthquake
Shaking up the way I love you
Wanna come to your rescue
But I'm no longer loved
I can remember days
Things weren't always this way
I used to make you smile
If only for a while
But now you can't get through
There's no way I can lose
I know some days are hard
But don't you make mine too
Cos I can't stand it when you come home and we just
fight for hours
But I won't show it no I'll just hold my breath and
keep it quiet
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Going unheard
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
I won't say a word
Every time you hurt me, I know that it's working
Making you mine
Every drop of thunder, only makes me stronger
On the inside
How many countless nights
I try my best to hide
Soon as you slam the door, my tears fall to the floor
I know that people change, maybe you're not to blame
But must you burn a hole so deep into my soul
Cos I can't stand it when you come home
And we just fight for hours
But I won't show it no I'll just hold my breath and
keep it quiet
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Going unheard
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
I won't say a word
Every time you hurt me, I know that it's working
Making you mine
Every drop of thunder, only makes me stronger
On the inside
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Going unheard
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
I won't say a word
Every time you hurt me, I know that it's working
Making you mine
Every drop of thunder, only makes me stronger
On the inside
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
Every little landslide, catch it in my hand
Every little earthquake, every little heartbreak
On his mountain there sits a long,
Gray-bearded, ancient hermit.
Sadly starin' at the caption,
In the San Mateo Times.
It reads, "Today the prophets,
All agree that California
Is to be swallowed in,
The twinkling of an eye."
He goes thumbin' through his growin',
Stack of half-unfinished rhymes.
Till he finds the one he once submitted,
To the New York Times.
They just laughed at him and said,
"You senile, wino, drunk, old fool,
Get outta here,
You must have lost your mind."
So he went back to his mountain,
Where he began to pray.
He prayed for those in ingrorance,
Who would treat a man that way.
For the truth will fall like his mountain, Lawd,
On all that have grown deaf.
The day the world is swallowed up,
Chaos all around me,
with it's finger clinging,
but I can hear you singing,
in the corners of my brain.
Every doubt has found me.
Every sound of grows drier.
Everything is quiet.
But the song that keeps me sane.
I can hear you're voice,
echoe in my voice softly.
I can feel your strength,
reinforcing mine.
If you fear I'll lose my spirit,
like a drunkard's wasted wine,
don't you even think about it,
I'm feelin' fine.
Mmmhmmm....
I can hear your voice,
echoe in my voice softly.
I can feel your strength,
reinforcing mine.
If you fear I'll lose my spirits,
like a drunkard's wasted wine,
don't you even think about it,
I'm feelin' fine
Mmmhmmm....
The lazers, the signals shine high
We're sailing, preparing for war
We're flying at light speed through the sky
In universal portals
Give me one more year and through hope we'll conquer fear
And shake the world
Earthquake, you cannot mistake that we will never surrender to you
Our plan, the mission at hand is just to shake it up, break it over you
Our comets are coming to destroy
Survival, salvation is here
We're on the front lines to save a galaxy
That will shine for all eternity
Give me one more year and through hope we'll conquer fear
And shake the world
Earthquake, you cannot mistake that we will never surrender to you
Our plan, the mission at hand is just to shake it up, break it up,
Tear it up, burn it up, winning the battle over you
Give me one more year and through hope we'll conquer fear
Come on and give me one more year and through hope we'll conquer fear
And shake the world
Earthquake, you cannot mistake that we will never surrender to you
Our plan, the mission at hand is just to shake it up, break it up,
Ganstas don't play around baygan can stay around red, green and gold wen we laugh and wave my k aronnd [x2]
[Chorus:]
Suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it's like an earhtquake paise Rastafari frist place love Jamaica my birth place wi mek di earth shake it like an earthquake praise Rastafari frist place chill out a my girl place.
[Verse 1:]
My life specialize in brokin place my thug specialize in busin face mi lawyah specialize in busin case dat dout to play di judge just incase (just incase) wow! discuss him case, anybwoy feel like step up him face wah! come and bus him face? WAh turn up di f***k base we got notime fi f***k wase big o9 pon mi f***k waiste fi mi? and don't live a f***k?
[Chorus:]
Cho suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it like an earthquake praise Rastafari frist place love Jamaica my birth place we mek di earth shake it's like an earthquake chill out at my girls place.
[Verse 2:]
And she called me and seh and fi need and tell mi how shi need mi seed waan get pregnant shi need fi bred show mi di front line seh a me fi lead affta mi a nuh invilead fast car outside if mi need fi leave suh mi drop di topic mi need fi bred gaspress it cause mi need fi speed it's like an episode from di leavahspeed no crap no coke no need fi speed Highgrade mi smoke suh mi ned mi Weed and wi spend nuff dough suh mi need mi G suh wen di king talk please tek heed bun bad mad no need fi bred we lock disgrace dan drop disgrace.
[Chorus:]
Suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it's like an earhtquake paise Rastafari first place love Jamaica my birth place wi mek di earth shake it like an earthquake praise Rastafari frist place chill out a my girl place.
Ganstas don't play around baygan can stay around red, green and gold wen we laugh and wave my k aronnd [x3]
[Chorus]
[Verse 1]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Ganstas don't play around baygan can stay around red,
green and gold wen we laugh and wave my k aronnd [x2]
[Chorus:]
Suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it's like an
earhtquake paise Rastafari frist place love Jamaica my
birth place wi mek di earth shake it like an earthquake
praise Rastafari frist place chill out a my girl place.
[Verse 1:]
My life specialize in brokin place my thug specialize
in busin face mi lawyah specialize in busin case dat
dout to play di judge just incase (just incase) wow!
discuss him case, anybwoy feel like step up him face
wah! come and bus him face? WAh turn up di f***k base
we got notime fi f***k wase big o9 pon mi f***k waiste
fi mi? and don't live a f***k?
[Chorus:]
Cho suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it like an
earthquake praise Rastafari frist place love Jamaica my
birth place we mek di earth shake it's like an
earthquake chill out at my girls place.
[Verse 2:]
And she called me and seh and fi need and tell mi how
shi need mi seed waan get pregnant shi need fi bred
show mi di front line seh a me fi lead affta mi a nuh
invilead fast car outside if mi need fi leave suh mi
drop di topic mi need fi bred gaspress it cause mi need
fi speed it's like an episode from di leavahspeed no
crap no coke no need fi speed Highgrade mi smoke suh mi
ned mi Weed and wi spend nuff dough suh mi need mi G
suh wen di king talk please tek heed bun bad mad no
need fi bred we lock disgrace dan drop disgrace.
[Chorus:]
Suh mi bus it mek di earth shake it's like an
earhtquake paise Rastafari first place love Jamaica my
birth place wi mek di earth shake it like an earthquake
praise Rastafari frist place chill out a my girl place.
Ganstas don't play around baygan can stay around red,
An open microphone can be dangerous
Let's tune in on a tool of the greatest MC out there
Take that!
Come back here and fight!
Come out and fight!
Carry on, hurry on (...) necessary ventilation, sniper!
Where are you?
Stop right there
The builder's hand strikes thee down at my call
I spied one who may be an escaped prisoner, be wary
Assassin! Murder! Take him! After him!
Come out and fight!
For your (...)
Sniper!
Come out here, I dare you!
Take that!
Come out and fight!
Die!
I (...) there
ALBUMS
- Breaking Out
- Assumptions/Think Again
- On the Prowl
- Rot Away
- Steel Toe
- Face Up
- Reflect
- Too Many Times
- No Hope for the Hopeless
- Get Extreme
- The Quake
- Head On
- Denver
- A Lost Cause
- Time to Heal
- Finders Keepers
- Little Candy
- And He Likes to Hurt You
- Savin' My Love
- Girl Named Jesse James
- Motivate Me
- Hit the Floor
- Same Old Story
- Don't Want to Go Back
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Labrinth - Earthquake ft. Tinie Tempah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
The album Electronic Earth is released on 2nd April. Click here to pre-order now! iTunes - smarturl.it (Standard) smarturl.it (Deluxe) Amazon - amzn.to MyPlay - myplay.me Play.com (with signed sleeves!) bit.ly HMV - bit.ly Music video by Labrinth feat.Tinie Tempah performing Earthquake. (C) 2011 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
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The album Electronic Earth is released on 2nd April. Click here to pre-order now! iTunes - smarturl.it (Standard) smarturl.it (Deluxe) Amazon - amzn.to MyPlay - myplay.me Play.com (with signed sleeves!) bit.ly HMV - bit.ly Music video by Labrinth feat.Tinie Tempah performing Earthquake. (C) 2011 Simco Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited
JAPAN - The Earthquake - 15 Minutes Live-Cam
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:45
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
This movie takes you right into the disaster. No comments, just live-cam shots from japanese people. One year later: Fukushima - Inside the Meltdown_Part01.mov www.youtube.com
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This movie takes you right into the disaster. No comments, just live-cam shots from japanese people. One year later: Fukushima - Inside the Meltdown_Part01.mov www.youtube.com
- published: 20 Apr 2011
- views: 774892
- author: zSpaceTV
Bravery Commendations For Service in Haiti
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Retired Montreal Police Service Detective Lieutenant Serge Boulianne survived the Haiti earthquake and recounts the most difficult parts of serving during the aftermath. He and other Canadian police officers and Canadian Forces personnel received bravery commendations during a ceremony in Montreal, Thursday January 10, 2013, three years after the earthquake. Phil Carpenter / THE GAZETTE
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Retired Montreal Police Service Detective Lieutenant Serge Boulianne survived the Haiti earthquake and recounts the most difficult parts of serving during the aftermath. He and other Canadian police officers and Canadian Forces personnel received bravery commendations during a ceremony in Montreal, Thursday January 10, 2013, three years after the earthquake. Phil Carpenter / THE GAZETTE
- published: 11 Jan 2013
- views: 2
- author: themontrealgazette
Earthquake Destruction
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- Duration: 0:47
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
See earthquakes pound San Francisco and pulverize Taiwan. video.nationalgeographic.com
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See earthquakes pound San Francisco and pulverize Taiwan. video.nationalgeographic.com
- published: 12 Jul 2007
- views: 8833541
- author: NationalGeographic
Earthquake in Brawley, California 5.4 8/26/2012
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
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Video: Moment of deadly China earthquake, landslide caught on camera
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
A series of earthquakes hit rural southwestern China on Friday, collapsing homes and triggering landslides. At least 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
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A series of earthquakes hit rural southwestern China on Friday, collapsing homes and triggering landslides. At least 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
- published: 07 Sep 2012
- views: 140287
- author: RussiaToday
M 7.7 EARTHQUAKE - SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 01/05/13
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- Duration: 1:20
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Magnitude 7.7 Date-Time Saturday, January 05, 2013 at 08:58:19 UTC Friday, January 04, 2013 at 11:58:19 PM at epicenter Location 55.292°N, 134.728°W Depth 9.6 km (6.0 miles) Region SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA Distances 102 km (63 miles) W of Craig, Alaska 303 km (188 miles) WNW of Prince Rupert, Canada 335 km (208 miles) S of Juneau, Alaska 402 km (249 miles) WNW of Terrace, Canada
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Magnitude 7.7 Date-Time Saturday, January 05, 2013 at 08:58:19 UTC Friday, January 04, 2013 at 11:58:19 PM at epicenter Location 55.292°N, 134.728°W Depth 9.6 km (6.0 miles) Region SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA Distances 102 km (63 miles) W of Craig, Alaska 303 km (188 miles) WNW of Prince Rupert, Canada 335 km (208 miles) S of Juneau, Alaska 402 km (249 miles) WNW of Terrace, Canada
- published: 05 Jan 2013
- views: 3048
- author: EQReporter
M 5.8 EARTHQUAKE - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA 01/10/13
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- Duration: 1:28
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Magnitude 5.8 Date-Time Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 13:47:03 UTC Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 08:47:03 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 4.754°N, 95.133°E Depth 35.1 km (21.8 miles) Region NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA Distances 91 km (56 miles) SSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 115 km (71 miles) SW of Sigli, Indonesia 128 km (79 miles) S of Sabang, Indonesia 129 km (80 miles) WNW of Meulaboh, Indonesia
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Magnitude 5.8 Date-Time Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 13:47:03 UTC Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 08:47:03 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 4.754°N, 95.133°E Depth 35.1 km (21.8 miles) Region NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA Distances 91 km (56 miles) SSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 115 km (71 miles) SW of Sigli, Indonesia 128 km (79 miles) S of Sabang, Indonesia 129 km (80 miles) WNW of Meulaboh, Indonesia
- published: 10 Jan 2013
- views: 250
- author: EQReporter
Earthquakes 2010: New unseen CCTV footage of Chile hotel tremors, Haiti Palace collapse
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- Duration: 2:33
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
New CCTV footage has been released of earthquakes in Chile (February 27, 2010) and in Haiti (January 12, 2010). It includes the collapse of the Presidential Palace in Haiti caught on tape.
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New CCTV footage has been released of earthquakes in Chile (February 27, 2010) and in Haiti (January 12, 2010). It includes the collapse of the Presidential Palace in Haiti caught on tape.
- published: 04 Jun 2010
- views: 789822
- author: RussiaToday
New Japan 9.0 magnitude earthquake Footage from auto
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- Duration: 6:52
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
incredible power of nature.... japan earthquake japan earthquake 2011 japan tsunami japan earthquake footage earthquake earthquake in japan earthquake japan japan tsunami 2011 japan tsunami earthquake japan 2011 japan earthquake 2010 tsunami japan tsunami japan 2011 japan earthquake video...
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incredible power of nature.... japan earthquake japan earthquake 2011 japan tsunami japan earthquake footage earthquake earthquake in japan earthquake japan japan tsunami 2011 japan tsunami earthquake japan 2011 japan earthquake 2010 tsunami japan tsunami japan 2011 japan earthquake video...
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 857
- author: TheGeroe1996
Earthquakes 101
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- Duration: 2:39
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
When the trembling stops, the disaster is only the beginning.
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When the trembling stops, the disaster is only the beginning.
- published: 11 Mar 2011
- views: 232585
- author: NationalGeographic
HD Dubstep - Earthquake (Fytch Remix) [FEATURED]
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
PIC LINK:konachan.com PLEASE READ: I don't own anything in the video. The credits go to the respective owners, and will not be used for profit or illegal sharing. I just upload this to share this great music with the world. Thanks. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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PIC LINK:konachan.com PLEASE READ: I don't own anything in the video. The credits go to the respective owners, and will not be used for profit or illegal sharing. I just upload this to share this great music with the world. Thanks. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
- published: 04 Sep 2011
- views: 2080011
- author: OnlyDuBSt3p
Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes on record slammed Japan's eastern coast on Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away ships, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicentre. Another 137 were confirmed killed, with 531 people missing. Police also said 544 people were injured. TOP VIDEOS of Japan earthquake & tsunami 2011 www.youtube.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Watch RT LIVE rt.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
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A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes on record slammed Japan's eastern coast on Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away ships, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicentre. Another 137 were confirmed killed, with 531 people missing. Police also said 544 people were injured. TOP VIDEOS of Japan earthquake & tsunami 2011 www.youtube.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Watch RT LIVE rt.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
- published: 11 Mar 2011
- views: 24937083
- author: RussiaToday
China News - September 7th, 2012: Deadly Earthquake, River Turns Red
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- Duration: 14:02
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
In today's NTD China News, dozens die after two earthquakes strike Southwest China. The extent of the damage is still being assessed. Chinese leader Hu Jintao meets leaders from the Asia Pacific region, ahead of the APEC summit in Vladivostok. Chinese authorities announce multibillion dollar infrastructure projects in a bid to boost the economy. Chinese financial magazine, Caijing, warns China's incoming leaders of critical challenges ahead. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper mulls a deal by China's oil giant CNOOC to purchase Canadian company Nexen Inc. Hong Kong authorities forced to respond after angry protests continue over the controversial National Education course. A stretch of China's Yangtze River in the city of Chongqing turns blood red—and locals don't quite believe the official explanation Unicorn Skull-Good, Giant Gorilla-Bad: art censors in Shanghai cover up some work before the opening of an arts fair. For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me
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In today's NTD China News, dozens die after two earthquakes strike Southwest China. The extent of the damage is still being assessed. Chinese leader Hu Jintao meets leaders from the Asia Pacific region, ahead of the APEC summit in Vladivostok. Chinese authorities announce multibillion dollar infrastructure projects in a bid to boost the economy. Chinese financial magazine, Caijing, warns China's incoming leaders of critical challenges ahead. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper mulls a deal by China's oil giant CNOOC to purchase Canadian company Nexen Inc. Hong Kong authorities forced to respond after angry protests continue over the controversial National Education course. A stretch of China's Yangtze River in the city of Chongqing turns blood red—and locals don't quite believe the official explanation Unicorn Skull-Good, Giant Gorilla-Bad: art censors in Shanghai cover up some work before the opening of an arts fair. For more news and videos visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ on.fb.me
- published: 07 Sep 2012
- views: 52489
- author: NTDTV
7.7 earthquake in ALASKA EXPLOSION IN CITY
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- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
7.7 magnitude earthquake in near Alaska / Canada just a short time ago 7.7 earthquake in ALASKA EXPLOSION IN CITY
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7.7 magnitude earthquake in near Alaska / Canada just a short time ago 7.7 earthquake in ALASKA EXPLOSION IN CITY
- published: 05 Jan 2013
- views: 5548
- author: BREAKINGZ ZEE
Earthquakes
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- Duration: 24:33
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Earthquakes are sudden, unpredictable movements of the Earth's crust, which can result in widespread loss of life, as well as extensive damage to buildings, and infrastructure. Certain parts of the world are more susceptible to these types of catastrophic events, such as Japan, which suffered a quake rating 6.8 on the Richter scale in 2004, killing 51 people and injuring thousands. Vulnerable countries are working towards developing reliable early warning systems so that they can better prepare their people and cities for impending disaster.
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Earthquakes are sudden, unpredictable movements of the Earth's crust, which can result in widespread loss of life, as well as extensive damage to buildings, and infrastructure. Certain parts of the world are more susceptible to these types of catastrophic events, such as Japan, which suffered a quake rating 6.8 on the Richter scale in 2004, killing 51 people and injuring thousands. Vulnerable countries are working towards developing reliable early warning systems so that they can better prepare their people and cities for impending disaster.
- published: 30 Jun 2010
- views: 2777
- author: TravelVideoStore
California Earthquake - Collapse of the San Andreas - Coming Soon!
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- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Today's date 8/20/12 - God given prophecies, at qwakeup.org state the entire San Andreas fault line is going to collapse, ruining many places in California. This video is a warning to watch for the tsunami from Japan coming weeks before the mega quake as a sign to get out of California no later than 2 weeks after the tsunami. This video also shows how other cities 200-250 miles away are going to get some damage from this mega quake to come as well.
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Today's date 8/20/12 - God given prophecies, at qwakeup.org state the entire San Andreas fault line is going to collapse, ruining many places in California. This video is a warning to watch for the tsunami from Japan coming weeks before the mega quake as a sign to get out of California no later than 2 weeks after the tsunami. This video also shows how other cities 200-250 miles away are going to get some damage from this mega quake to come as well.
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 21162
- author: weatherbill7
Major Earthquake has hit Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Duration: 6:08
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
FULL COVERAGE: tvnz.co.nz - A Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake has hit Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of 5 km and centred 10 km south-east of the city. There are reports of major damage to buildings and infrastructure.
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FULL COVERAGE: tvnz.co.nz - A Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake has hit Christchurch, New Zealand, at a depth of 5 km and centred 10 km south-east of the city. There are reports of major damage to buildings and infrastructure.
- published: 22 Feb 2011
- views: 3075262
- author: TVNewZealand
Brett Domino Trio: Earthquake (Labrinth Cover) ft. Grabatron
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- Duration: 4:08
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Grabatron Country (FREE Download) iPhone/iPad: www.bit.ly Android: www.bit.ly Future Games of London sent us their new app, so we incorporated it into this cover of Labrinth's 'Earthquake'. www.brettdomino.com
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Grabatron Country (FREE Download) iPhone/iPad: www.bit.ly Android: www.bit.ly Future Games of London sent us their new app, so we incorporated it into this cover of Labrinth's 'Earthquake'. www.brettdomino.com
- published: 23 Dec 2011
- views: 284593
- author: brettdomino
12/14/2012 -- Southern California Earthquakes -- Back to Back 6.4M and 6.1M
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
6.4M and 6.1M .. off the SW coast of california.. also .. 3.5M and 3.2 in Nevada.. be alert: earthquake.usgs.gov earthquake.usgs.gov
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6.4M and 6.1M .. off the SW coast of california.. also .. 3.5M and 3.2 in Nevada.. be alert: earthquake.usgs.gov earthquake.usgs.gov
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 29235
- author: dutchsinse
Earthquake Proof Table DOtY 2012.mp4
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- Duration: 3:43
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
At any given time, more than 300000000 pupils worldwide are facing impending danger since their schools are not built to withstand an earthquake. Of special concern are areas along geological rift lines and children in developing countries, where construction quality can be poor. While it is common to instruct pupils to crawl under tables in case of an earthquake, existing non earthquake designated classroom tables often turn into lethal traps for those taking refuge. The "Earthquake-Proof Table" is designed for a range of building types and collapse scenarios. It provides a comprehensive solution by creating both covering protection and passageways for rescue team accessibility. To date, the patent pending design has successfully withstood a series of rigorous vertical impact tests and is currently awaiting official approval of the world leading Structural Engineering department of Padua University, Italy. In addition to various weight and ceiling collapse patterns, the Earthquake-Proof Table addresses the financial limitations of the schools that need it through economical, yet responsible production methods and inexpensive materials. Designed according to sound ergonomic principles, the Earthquake table is light enough for two children to lift and move, as well as adapted to classroom cleaning and other routine, non-emergency needs. The table was initiated as a final project at the Industrial Design department at the "Bezalel Academy of Art and Design" in Jerusalem ...
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At any given time, more than 300000000 pupils worldwide are facing impending danger since their schools are not built to withstand an earthquake. Of special concern are areas along geological rift lines and children in developing countries, where construction quality can be poor. While it is common to instruct pupils to crawl under tables in case of an earthquake, existing non earthquake designated classroom tables often turn into lethal traps for those taking refuge. The "Earthquake-Proof Table" is designed for a range of building types and collapse scenarios. It provides a comprehensive solution by creating both covering protection and passageways for rescue team accessibility. To date, the patent pending design has successfully withstood a series of rigorous vertical impact tests and is currently awaiting official approval of the world leading Structural Engineering department of Padua University, Italy. In addition to various weight and ceiling collapse patterns, the Earthquake-Proof Table addresses the financial limitations of the schools that need it through economical, yet responsible production methods and inexpensive materials. Designed according to sound ergonomic principles, the Earthquake table is light enough for two children to lift and move, as well as adapted to classroom cleaning and other routine, non-emergency needs. The table was initiated as a final project at the Industrial Design department at the "Bezalel Academy of Art and Design" in Jerusalem ...
- published: 08 Feb 2012
- views: 72306
- author: mitomod
Puerto Rico Region Tsunamis and Earthquakes - " My QUICK views on this subject"
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- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
This is a response to a comment I received on another earthquake watch video: "hi earthalerts,please keep me updated on puerto rico,keep hearing about swarms picking up god bless" Thank you for your comment and I am sorry you may be concerned with this area. This video is my quick response to that, it is my opinion and like I said in the video is that I am not a fortune teller, forecaster, or fear monger. This is just my view on the quake activity in the Puerto Rico region! This video may not be a professional production, I just threw it together and summed up a few key points and historical and seismic details and information. It is by far a million dollar project, if I were to value this video as a created whole I would say it was maybe worth 2 bucks :) So take it as just being a response video and not a documentary from Discovery or BBC. Thanks Some great links to learn more on this region- Puerto Rico online seismic network- redsismica.uprm.edu USGS earthquake monitoring site - earthquake.usgs.gov Tectonics of the Caribbean - www.slideserve.com Caribbean tsunami earthquake studies - woodshole.er.usgs.gov _________________________________ Please feel free to subscribe, this information is free and could be a valuable tool for you or just for your entertainment, either way! Thank you to all the earthquake monitoring agencies throughout the globe that monitor and track these quakes and provide loads of data in return. Happy Holidays to you for whatever you celebrate make ...
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This is a response to a comment I received on another earthquake watch video: "hi earthalerts,please keep me updated on puerto rico,keep hearing about swarms picking up god bless" Thank you for your comment and I am sorry you may be concerned with this area. This video is my quick response to that, it is my opinion and like I said in the video is that I am not a fortune teller, forecaster, or fear monger. This is just my view on the quake activity in the Puerto Rico region! This video may not be a professional production, I just threw it together and summed up a few key points and historical and seismic details and information. It is by far a million dollar project, if I were to value this video as a created whole I would say it was maybe worth 2 bucks :) So take it as just being a response video and not a documentary from Discovery or BBC. Thanks Some great links to learn more on this region- Puerto Rico online seismic network- redsismica.uprm.edu USGS earthquake monitoring site - earthquake.usgs.gov Tectonics of the Caribbean - www.slideserve.com Caribbean tsunami earthquake studies - woodshole.er.usgs.gov _________________________________ Please feel free to subscribe, this information is free and could be a valuable tool for you or just for your entertainment, either way! Thank you to all the earthquake monitoring agencies throughout the globe that monitor and track these quakes and provide loads of data in return. Happy Holidays to you for whatever you celebrate make ...
- published: 18 Dec 2012
- views: 135
- author: EarthAlerts
Japan earthquake: CCTV video of tsunami wave hitting Sendai airport
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
The government has confirmed 23 deaths, with the number expected to rise. It follows the 8.9-magnitude earthquake which sent a 4-metre wall of water inland across the Miyagi prefecture . There's considerable destruction - 200 people have been washed away. Buildings, cars and ships were also swept by the raging waters. Several are missing on Japan's Sendai island. The first wave has also reached Russia's Kuril islands to the north, reportedly around a metre high. There are several fires along Japan's eastern coastline, and 4 million homes are without power. The Prime Minister's ordered an emergency response team to tackle the disaster - with aircraft scrambled to the worst-affected area. Communication is crippled and Tokyo's Norita International Airport has been closed. The entire Pacific region is on tsunami alert - with Hawaii braced to be hit within the next few hours. Top videos of Japan earthquake & tsunami 2011 www.youtube.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Watch RT LIVE on our website rt.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
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The government has confirmed 23 deaths, with the number expected to rise. It follows the 8.9-magnitude earthquake which sent a 4-metre wall of water inland across the Miyagi prefecture . There's considerable destruction - 200 people have been washed away. Buildings, cars and ships were also swept by the raging waters. Several are missing on Japan's Sendai island. The first wave has also reached Russia's Kuril islands to the north, reportedly around a metre high. There are several fires along Japan's eastern coastline, and 4 million homes are without power. The Prime Minister's ordered an emergency response team to tackle the disaster - with aircraft scrambled to the worst-affected area. Communication is crippled and Tokyo's Norita International Airport has been closed. The entire Pacific region is on tsunami alert - with Hawaii braced to be hit within the next few hours. Top videos of Japan earthquake & tsunami 2011 www.youtube.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Watch RT LIVE on our website rt.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
- published: 11 Mar 2011
- views: 20642485
- author: RussiaToday
photo: AP / Channi Anand
09 Jan 2013
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - India slammed arch-rival Pakistan on Wednesday over a fire fight in the disputed territory of Kashmir in which two of its soldiers were killed, and said the mutilation of one of the bodies was "inhuman". India's Defence Minister A.K. Antony waits to speak at a plenary session of the 11th International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit ... REUTERS/Tim Chong ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
photo: AP / Alexandre Meneghini
10 Jan 2013
Mexican has enacted a law that will ensure that the victims and relatives of crime are compensated with payments and social services from the state. The law, enacted by President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday, comprises the creation of a fund to pay relatives up to $70,000 in compensation for an innocent victim killed in attacks by drug gangs ... “There are thousands of people who have suffered the ravages of violence ... Share ... ....(size: 18.3Kb)
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon
10 Jan 2013
PARIS. Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were "executed" at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said on Thursday. Turkey's Anadolu news agency identified one of the victims as Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK ... He called it a "totally intolerable act." ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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11 Jan 2013
QUETTA, Pakistan -- A series of bombings killed 115 people in Pakistan yesterday, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest ... No group claimed responsibility for the attack.. . .....(size: 7.7Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
10 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Lay then, the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind." -Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man". If alive today, Thomas Paine would recognize that the United States Government is not worthy of its citizens ... He would caution the People ... Paine would also empathize with ... In another town, Paine would identify with ... (1) Paine, Thomas....(size: 4.8Kb)
MSNBC
12 Jan 2013
Three years after he was nearly killed in the devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince, a Haitian violinist is returning to Miami to perform at the hospital where he spent a month recuperating ... with his two children a day before the third anniversary of the 2010 earthquake ... Jackson treated 205 Haiti earthquake survivors in 2010, all of whom survived....(size: 2.2Kb)
New York Daily News
12 Jan 2013
A mega earthquake that would rattle almost the entire length of California was long thought impossible, but new research suggests that a statewide quake could actually occur ... The 9.0-magnitude earthquake ......(size: 1.0Kb)
The Washington Post
12 Jan 2013
A little more than a week after a 45-second earthquake ravaged Haiti in January 2010, I drove into Leogane, the epicenter of the catastrophe, where tens of thousands of people had been killed ... These conversations and the lack of action that resulted exemplified the post-earthquake “gimme cash” recovery plan, in which the person or group helping with recovery receives donations but the people who need help get nothing....(size: 4.1Kb)
The Washington Post
12 Jan 2013
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony Saturday for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds of thousands of people ... Senior government officials and diplomats are expected to attend. Loading... Comments Weigh In Corrections?. Recommend. Personal Post. Images from around the world ... 12 will not be a holiday marking the earthquake as in the last two years ... ....(size: 4.4Kb)
noodls
12 Jan 2013
(Source. CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency). January 11, 2013. Three years ago tomorrow, a devastating earthquake shook the already-fragile Caribbean nation of Haiti. It took 35 seconds to claim the lives of more than 230,000 men, women and children, and injure 300,000 more ... Julian Fantino. Minister of International Cooperation. - 30 - ... Daniel Bezalel Richardsen ... Telephone ... Email....(size: 2.5Kb)
The Miami Herald
12 Jan 2013
Romel Joseph, violinist and Haiti earthquake survivor, returned Friday to the place that gave him a second chance at life. “This place will always be my home,” said Joseph, 53, standing in the atrium of Jackson Memorial Hospital’s diagnostic treatment center ... “Life is short ... “It was a sad day and the entire world stood still as we watched a country ravished by a massive earthquake,” said U.S ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
noodls
12 Jan 2013
Denver Post
12 Jan 2013
Edner Gue, right, and Labon Florestal work to clean up the earthquake damaged Grande College Auguste Comte de Petionville, in their neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, Friday, Jan ... On Saturday, Haiti will mark the 3rd anniversary of the earthquake that officials say killed more than 300,000 people and displaced more than a million others ... 12 will not be a holiday marking the earthquake as in the last two years....(size: 3.2Kb)
Star Tribune
12 Jan 2013
It said two people were still missing ... They occur periodically in the region, which is prone to earthquakes and heavy rains. In a nearby county, 81 people died after an earthquake in September ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
Newsday
12 Jan 2013
It said two people were still missing ... They occur periodically in the region, which is prone to earthquakes and heavy rains. In a nearby county, 81 people died after an earthquake in September ... ....(size: 1.1Kb)
Seattle Post
12 Jan 2013
It said two people were still missing ... They occur periodically in the region, which is prone to earthquakes and heavy rains. In a nearby county, 81 people died after an earthquake in September ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
12 Jan 2013
It said two people were still missing ... They occur periodically in the region, which is prone to earthquakes and heavy rains. In a nearby county, 81 people died after an earthquake in September ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
Mashable
12 Jan 2013
Extreme Weather Conditions Around the World. 1. Drought in the U.S. 2012 was the hottest year, ever, in the United States. More than half of the continental U.S ... Photo via Mark Wilson/Getty Images News/Getty Images. 2. Floods throughout the U.K ... Earthquakes all over. A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico in March ... From heat waves and hurricanes to earthquakes and droughts, 2012 shattered weather records around the world....(size: 3.7Kb)
For other uses, see Earthquake (disambiguation).
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over large areas, depending on their depth. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been of magnitude slightly over 9, although there is no limit to the possible magnitude. The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or larger was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 (as of March 2011), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. The shallower an earthquake, the more damage to structures it causes, all else being equal.[1]
At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides, and occasionally volcanic activity.
In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The epicenter is the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter.
Naturally occurring earthquakes[link]
Tectonic earthquakes occur anywhere in the earth where there is sufficient stored elastic strain energy to drive fracture propagation along a fault plane. The sides of a fault move past each other smoothly and aseismically only if there are no irregularities or asperities along the fault surface that increase the frictional resistance. Most fault surfaces do have such asperities and this leads to a form of stick-slip behaviour. Once the fault has locked, continued relative motion between the plates leads to increasing stress and therefore, stored strain energy in the volume around the fault surface. This continues until the stress has risen sufficiently to break through the asperity, suddenly allowing sliding over the locked portion of the fault, releasing the stored energy. This energy is released as a combination of radiated elastic strain seismic waves, frictional heating of the fault surface, and cracking of the rock, thus causing an earthquake. This process of gradual build-up of strain and stress punctuated by occasional sudden earthquake failure is referred to as the elastic-rebound theory. It is estimated that only 10 percent or less of an earthquake's total energy is radiated as seismic energy. Most of the earthquake's energy is used to power the earthquake fracture growth or is converted into heat generated by friction. Therefore, earthquakes lower the Earth's available elastic potential energy and raise its temperature, though these changes are negligible compared to the conductive and convective flow of heat out from the Earth's deep interior.[2]
Earthquake fault types[link]
Main article: Fault (geology)
There are three main types of fault that may cause an earthquake: normal, reverse (thrust) and strike-slip. Normal and reverse faulting are examples of dip-slip, where the displacement along the fault is in the direction of dip and movement on them involves a vertical component. Normal faults occur mainly in areas where the crust is being extended such as a divergent boundary. Reverse faults occur in areas where the crust is being shortened such as at a convergent boundary. Strike-slip faults are steep structures where the two sides of the fault slip horizontally past each other; transform boundaries are a particular type of strike-slip fault. Many earthquakes are caused by movement on faults that have components of both dip-slip and strike-slip; this is known as oblique slip.
Reverse faults, particularly those along convergent plate boundaries are associated with the most powerful earthquakes, including almost all of those of magnitude 8 or more. Strike-slip faults, particularly continental transforms can produce major earthquakes up to about magnitude 8. Earthquakes associated with normal faults are generally less than magnitude 7.
This is so because the energy released in an earthquake, and thus its magnitude, is proportional to the area of the fault that ruptures[3] and the stress drop. Therefore, the longer the length and the wider the width of the faulted area, the larger the resulting magnitude. The topmost, brittle part of the Earth’s crust, and the cool slabs of the tectonic plates that are descending down into the hot mantle, are the only parts of our planet which can store elastic energy and release it in fault ruptures. Rocks hotter than about 300 degrees Celsius flow in response to stress; they do not rupture in earthquakes.[4][5] The maximum observed lengths of ruptures and mapped faults, which may break in one go are approximately 1000 km. Examples are the earthquakes in Chile, 1960; Alaska, 1957; Sumatra, 2004, all in subduction zones. The longest earthquake ruptures on strike-slip faults, like the San Andreas Fault (1857, 1906), the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey (1939) and the Denali Fault in Alaska (2002), are about half to one third as long as the lengths along subducting plate margins, and those along normal faults are even shorter.
The most important parameter controlling the maximum earthquake magnitude on a fault is however not the maximum available length, but the available width because the latter varies by a factor of 20. Along converging plate margins, the dip angle of the rupture plane is very shallow, typically about 10 degrees.[6] Thus the width of the plane within the top brittle crust of the Earth can become 50 to 100 km (Tohoku, 2011; Alaska, 1964), making the most powerful earthquakes possible.
Strike-slip faults tend to be oriented near vertically, resulting in an approximate width of 10 km within the brittle crust,[7] thus earthquakes with magnitudes much larger than 8 are not possible. Maximum magnitudes along many normal faults are even more limited because many of them are located along spreading centers, as in Iceland, where the thickness of the brittle layer is only about 6 km.[8][9]
In addition, there exists a hierarchy of stress level in the three fault types. Thrust faults are generated by the highest, strike slip by intermediate, and normal faults by the lowest stress levels.[10] This can easily be understood by considering the direction of the greatest principal stress, the direction of the force that ‘pushes’ the rock mass during the faulting. In the case of normal faults, the rock mass is pushed down in a vertical direction, thus the pushing force (greatest principal stress) equals the weight of the rock mass itself. In the case of thrusting, the rock mass ‘escapes’ in the direction of the least principal stress, namely upward, lifting the rock mass up, thus the overburden equals the least principal stress. Strike-slip faulting is intermediate between the other two types described above. This difference in stress regime in the three faulting environments can contribute to differences in stress drop during faulting, which contributes to differences in the radiated energy, regardless of fault dimensions.
Earthquakes away from plate boundaries[link]
Main article: Intraplate earthquake
Where plate boundaries occur within continental lithosphere, deformation is spread out over a much larger area than the plate boundary itself. In the case of the San Andreas fault continental transform, many earthquakes occur away from the plate boundary and are related to strains developed within the broader zone of deformation caused by major irregularities in the fault trace (e.g., the "Big bend" region). The Northridge earthquake was associated with movement on a blind thrust within such a zone. Another example is the strongly oblique convergent plate boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates where it runs through the northwestern part of the Zagros mountains. The deformation associated with this plate boundary is partitioned into nearly pure thrust sense movements perpendicular to the boundary over a wide zone to the southwest and nearly pure strike-slip motion along the Main Recent Fault close to the actual plate boundary itself. This is demonstrated by earthquake focal mechanisms.[11]
All tectonic plates have internal stress fields caused by their interactions with neighbouring plates and sedimentary loading or unloading (e.g. deglaciation[12]). These stresses may be sufficient to cause failure along existing fault planes, giving rise to intraplate earthquakes.[13]
Shallow-focus and deep-focus earthquakes[link]
Main article: Depth of focus (tectonics)
The majority of tectonic earthquakes originate at the ring of fire in depths not exceeding tens of kilometers. Earthquakes occurring at a depth of less than 70 km are classified as 'shallow-focus' earthquakes, while those with a focal-depth between 70 and 300 km are commonly termed 'mid-focus' or 'intermediate-depth' earthquakes. In subduction zones, where older and colder oceanic crust descends beneath another tectonic plate, deep-focus earthquakes may occur at much greater depths (ranging from 300 up to 700 kilometers).[14] These seismically active areas of subduction are known as Wadati-Benioff zones. Deep-focus earthquakes occur at a depth where the subducted lithosphere should no longer be brittle, due to the high temperature and pressure. A possible mechanism for the generation of deep-focus earthquakes is faulting caused by olivine undergoing a phase transition into a spinel structure.[15]
Earthquakes and volcanic activity[link]
Earthquakes often occur in volcanic regions and are caused there, both by tectonic faults and the movement of magma in volcanoes. Such earthquakes can serve as an early warning of volcanic eruptions, as during the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980.[16] Earthquake swarms can serve as markers for the location of the flowing magma throughout the volcanoes. These swarms can be recorded by seismometers and tiltmeters (a device that measures ground slope) and used as sensors to predict imminent or upcoming eruptions.[17]
Rupture dynamics[link]
A tectonic earthquake begins by an initial rupture at a point on the fault surface, a process known as nucleation. The scale of the nucleation zone is uncertain, with some evidence, such as the rupture dimensions of the smallest earthquakes, suggesting that it is smaller than 100 m while other evidence, such as a slow component revealed by low-frequency spectra of some earthquakes, suggest that it is larger. The possibility that the nucleation involves some sort of preparation process is supported by the observation that about 40% of earthquakes are preceded by foreshocks. Once the rupture has initiated it begins to propagate along the fault surface. The mechanics of this process are poorly understood, partly because it is difficult to recreate the high sliding velocities in a laboratory. Also the effects of strong ground motion make it very difficult to record information close to a nucleation zone.[18]
Rupture propagation is generally modeled using a fracture mechanics approach, likening the rupture to a propagating mixed mode shear crack. The rupture velocity is a function of the fracture energy in the volume around the crack tip, increasing with decreasing fracture energy. The velocity of rupture propagation is orders of magnitude faster than the displacement velocity across the fault. Earthquake ruptures typically propagate at velocities that are in the range 70–90% of the S-wave velocity and this is independent of earthquake size. A small subset of earthquake ruptures appear to have propagated at speeds greater than the S-wave velocity. These supershear earthquakes have all been observed during large strike-slip events. The unusually wide zone of coseismic damage caused by the 2001 Kunlun earthquake has been attributed to the effects of the sonic boom developed in such earthquakes. Some earthquake ruptures travel at unusually low velocities and are referred to as slow earthquakes. A particularly dangerous form of slow earthquake is the tsunami earthquake, observed where the relatively low felt intensities, caused by the slow propagation speed of some great earthquakes, fail to alert the population of the neighbouring coast, as in the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake.[18]
Tidal forces[link]
See also: Earthquake prediction#Tides
Research work has shown a robust correlation between small tidally induced forces and non-volcanic tremor activity.[19][20][21][22]
Earthquake clusters[link]
Most earthquakes form part of a sequence, related to each other in terms of location and time.[23] Most earthquake clusters consist of small tremors that cause little to no damage, but there is a theory that earthquakes can recur in a regular pattern.[24]
Aftershocks[link]
Main article: Aftershock
An aftershock is an earthquake that occurs after a previous earthquake, the mainshock. An aftershock is in the same region of the main shock but always of a smaller magnitude. If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated as the main shock and the original main shock is redesignated as a foreshock. Aftershocks are formed as the crust around the displaced fault plane adjusts to the effects of the main shock.[23]
Earthquake swarms[link]
Main article: Earthquake swarm
Earthquake swarms are sequences of earthquakes striking in a specific area within a short period of time. They are different from earthquakes followed by a series of aftershocks by the fact that no single earthquake in the sequence is obviously the main shock, therefore none have notable higher magnitudes than the other. An example of an earthquake swarm is the 2004 activity at Yellowstone National Park.[25]
Earthquake storms[link]
Main article: Earthquake storm
Sometimes a series of earthquakes occur in a sort of earthquake storm, where the earthquakes strike a fault in clusters, each triggered by the shaking or stress redistribution of the previous earthquakes. Similar to aftershocks but on adjacent segments of fault, these storms occur over the course of years, and with some of the later earthquakes as damaging as the early ones. Such a pattern was observed in the sequence of about a dozen earthquakes that struck the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey in the 20th century and has been inferred for older anomalous clusters of large earthquakes in the Middle East.[26][27]
Size and frequency of occurrence[link]
It is estimated that around 500,000 earthquakes occur each year, detectable with current instrumentation. About 100,000 of these can be felt.[28][29] Minor earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places like California and Alaska in the U.S., as well as in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, the Azores in Portugal, Turkey, New Zealand, Greece, Italy, and Japan, but earthquakes can occur almost anywhere, including New York City, London, and Australia.[30] Larger earthquakes occur less frequently, the relationship being exponential; for example, roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than magnitude 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5. In the (low seismicity) United Kingdom, for example, it has been calculated that the average recurrences are: an earthquake of 3.7–4.6 every year, an earthquake of 4.7–5.5 every 10 years, and an earthquake of 5.6 or larger every 100 years.[31] This is an example of the Gutenberg-Richter law.
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The Messina earthquake and tsunami took as many as 200,000 lives on December 28, 1908 in Sicily and Calabria.[32]
The number of seismic stations has increased from about 350 in 1931 to many thousands today. As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past, but this is because of the vast improvement in instrumentation, rather than an increase in the number of earthquakes. The United States Geological Survey estimates that, since 1900, there have been an average of 18 major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0–7.9) and one great earthquake (magnitude 8.0 or greater) per year, and that this average has been relatively stable.[33] In recent years, the number of major earthquakes per year has decreased, though this is probably a statistical fluctuation rather than a systematic trend.[citation needed] More detailed statistics on the size and frequency of earthquakes is available from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).[34] A recent increase in the number of major earthquakes has been noted, which could be explained by a cyclical pattern of periods of intense tectonic activity, interspersed with longer periods of low-intensity. However, accurate recordings of earthquakes only began in the early 1900s, so it is too early to categorically state that this is the case.[35]
Most of the world's earthquakes (90%, and 81% of the largest) take place in the 40,000 km long, horseshoe-shaped zone called the circum-Pacific seismic belt, known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, which for the most part bounds the Pacific Plate.[36][37] Massive earthquakes tend to occur along other plate boundaries, too, such as along the Himalayan Mountains.[38]
With the rapid growth of mega-cities such as Mexico City, Tokyo and Tehran, in areas of high seismic risk, some seismologists are warning that a single quake may claim the lives of up to 3 million people.[39]
Induced seismicity[link]
Main article: Induced seismicity
While most earthquakes are caused by movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, human activity can also produce earthquakes. Four main activities contribute to this phenomenon: storing large amounts of water behind a dam (and possibly building an extremely heavy building), drilling and injecting liquid into wells, and by coal mining and oil drilling.[40] Perhaps the best known example is the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in May; this tremor resulted in 69,227 fatalities and is the 19th deadliest earthquake of all time. The Zipingpu Dam is believed to have fluctuated the pressure of the fault 1,650 feet (503 m) away; this pressure probably increased the power of the earthquake and accelerated the rate of movement for the fault.[41] The greatest earthquake in Australia's history is also claimed to be induced by humanity, through coal mining. The city of Newcastle was built over a large sector of coal mining areas. The earthquake has been reported to be spawned from a fault that reactivated due to the millions of tonnes of rock removed in the mining process.[42]
Measuring and locating earthquakes[link]
Main article: Seismology
Earthquakes can be recorded by seismometers up to great distances, because seismic waves travel through the whole Earth's interior. The absolute magnitude of a quake is conventionally reported by numbers on the Moment magnitude scale (formerly Richter scale, magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas), whereas the felt magnitude is reported using the modified Mercalli intensity scale (intensity II–XII).
Every tremor produces different types of seismic waves, which travel through rock with different velocities:
- Longitudinal P-waves (shock- or pressure waves)
- Transverse S-waves (both body waves)
- Surface waves — (Rayleigh and Love waves)
Propagation velocity of the seismic waves ranges from approx. 3 km/s up to 13 km/s, depending on the density and elasticity of the medium. In the Earth's interior the shock- or P waves travel much faster than the S waves (approx. relation 1.7 : 1). The differences in travel time from the epicentre to the observatory are a measure of the distance and can be used to image both sources of quakes and structures within the Earth. Also the depth of the hypocenter can be computed roughly.
In solid rock P-waves travel at about 6 to 7 km per second; the velocity increases within the deep mantle to ~13 km/s. The velocity of S-waves ranges from 2–3 km/s in light sediments and 4–5 km/s in the Earth's crust up to 7 km/s in the deep mantle. As a consequence, the first waves of a distant earthquake arrive at an observatory via the Earth's mantle.
Rule of thumb: On the average, the kilometer distance to the earthquake is the number of seconds between the P and S wave times 8.[43] Slight deviations are caused by inhomogeneities of subsurface structure. By such analyses of seismograms the Earth's core was located in 1913 by Beno Gutenberg.
Earthquakes are not only categorized by their magnitude but also by the place where they occur. The world is divided into 754 Flinn-Engdahl regions (F-E regions), which are based on political and geographical boundaries as well as seismic activity. More active zones are divided into smaller F-E regions whereas less active zones belong to larger F-E regions.
Effects of earthquakes[link]
The effects of earthquakes include, but are not limited to, the following:
Shaking and ground rupture[link]
Shaking and ground rupture are the main effects created by earthquakes, principally resulting in more or less severe damage to buildings and other rigid structures. The severity of the local effects depends on the complex combination of the earthquake magnitude, the distance from the epicenter, and the local geological and geomorphological conditions, which may amplify or reduce wave propagation.[44] The ground-shaking is measured by ground acceleration.
Specific local geological, geomorphological, and geostructural features can induce high levels of shaking on the ground surface even from low-intensity earthquakes. This effect is called site or local amplification. It is principally due to the transfer of the seismic motion from hard deep soils to soft superficial soils and to effects of seismic energy focalization owing to typical geometrical setting of the deposits.
Ground rupture is a visible breaking and displacement of the Earth's surface along the trace of the fault, which may be of the order of several metres in the case of major earthquakes. Ground rupture is a major risk for large engineering structures such as dams, bridges and nuclear power stations and requires careful mapping of existing faults to identify any which are likely to break the ground surface within the life of the structure.[45]
Landslides and avalanches[link]
Main article: Landslide
Earthquakes, along with severe storms, volcanic activity, coastal wave attack, and wildfires, can produce slope instability leading to landslides, a major geological hazard. Landslide danger may persist while emergency personnel are attempting rescue.[46]
Fires[link]
Earthquakes can cause fires by damaging electrical power or gas lines. In the event of water mains rupturing and a loss of pressure, it may also become difficult to stop the spread of a fire once it has started. For example, more deaths in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were caused by fire than by the earthquake itself.[47]
Soil liquefaction[link]
Main article: Soil liquefaction
Soil liquefaction occurs when, because of the shaking, water-saturated granular material (such as sand) temporarily loses its strength and transforms from a solid to a liquid. Soil liquefaction may cause rigid structures, like buildings and bridges, to tilt or sink into the liquefied deposits. This can be a devastating effect of earthquakes. For example, in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, soil liquefaction caused many buildings to sink into the ground, eventually collapsing upon themselves.[48]
Tsunami[link]
Main article: Tsunami
Tsunamis are long-wavelength, long-period sea waves produced by the sudden or abrupt movement of large volumes of water. In the open ocean the distance between wave crests can surpass 100 kilometers (62 mi), and the wave periods can vary from five minutes to one hour. Such tsunamis travel 600-800 kilometers per hour (373–497 miles per hour), depending on water depth. Large waves produced by an earthquake or a submarine landslide can overrun nearby coastal areas in a matter of minutes. Tsunamis can also travel thousands of kilometers across open ocean and wreak destruction on far shores hours after the earthquake that generated them.[49]
Ordinarily, subduction earthquakes under magnitude 7.5 on the Richter scale do not cause tsunamis, although some instances of this have been recorded. Most destructive tsunamis are caused by earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 or more.[49]
Floods[link]
Main article: Flood
A flood is an overflow of any amount of water that reaches land.[50] Floods occur usually when the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, exceeds the total capacity of the formation, and as a result some of the water flows or sits outside of the normal perimeter of the body. However, floods may be secondary effects of earthquakes, if dams are damaged. Earthquakes may cause landslips to dam rivers, which collapse and cause floods.[51]
The terrain below the Sarez Lake in Tajikistan is in danger of catastrophic flood if the landslide dam formed by the earthquake, known as the Usoi Dam, were to fail during a future earthquake. Impact projections suggest the flood could affect roughly 5 million people.[52]
Human impacts[link]
An earthquake may cause injury and loss of life, road and bridge damage, general property damage (which may or may not be covered by earthquake insurance), and collapse or destabilization (potentially leading to future collapse) of buildings. The aftermath may bring disease, lack of basic necessities, and higher insurance premiums.
Major earthquakes[link]
Main article: List of earthquakes
One of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history occurred on 23 January 1556 in the Shaanxi province, China, killing more than 830,000 people (see 1556 Shaanxi earthquake).[54] Most of the population in the area at the time lived in yaodongs, artificial caves in loess cliffs, many of which collapsed during the catastrophe with great loss of life. The 1976 Tangshan earthquake, with a death toll estimated to be between 240,000 to 655,000, is believed to be the largest earthquake of the 20th century by death toll.[55]
The 1960 Chilean Earthquake is the largest earthquake that has been measured on a seismograph, reaching 9.5 magnitude on 22 May 1960.[28][29] Its epicenter was near Cañete, Chile. The energy released was approximately twice that of the next most powerful earthquake, the Good Friday Earthquake, which was centered in Prince William Sound, Alaska.[56][57] The ten largest recorded earthquakes have all been megathrust earthquakes; however, of these ten, only the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is simultaneously one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.
Earthquakes that caused the greatest loss of life, while powerful, were deadly because of their proximity to either heavily populated areas or the ocean, where earthquakes often create tsunamis that can devastate communities thousands of kilometers away. Regions most at risk for great loss of life include those where earthquakes are relatively rare but powerful, and poor regions with lax, unenforced, or nonexistent seismic building codes.
Prediction[link]
Main article: Earthquake prediction
Many methods have been developed for predicting the time and place in which earthquakes will occur. Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.[58] However, for well-understood faults the probability that a segment may rupture during the next few decades can be estimated.[59]
Earthquake warning systems have been developed that can provide regional notification of an earthquake in progress, but before the ground surface has begun to move, potentially allowing people within the system's range to seek shelter before the earthquake's impact is felt.
Preparedness[link]
The objective of earthquake engineering is to foresee the impact of earthquakes on buildings and other structures and to design such structures to minimize the risk of damage. Existing structures can be modified by seismic retrofitting to improve their resistance to earthquakes. Earthquake insurance can provide building owners with financial protection against losses resulting from earthquakes.
Emergency management strategies can be employed by a government or organization to mitigate risks and prepare for consequences.
Historical views[link]
From the lifetime of the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras in the 5th century BCE to the 14th century CE, earthquakes were usually attributed to "air (vapors) in the cavities of the Earth."[60] Thales of Miletus, who lived from 625–547 (BCE) was the only documented person who believed that earthquakes were caused by tension between the earth and water.[60] Other theories existed, including the Greek philosopher Anaxamines' (585–526 BCE) beliefs that short incline episodes of dryness and wetness caused seismic activity. The Greek philosopher Democritus (460–371 BCE) blamed water in general for earthquakes.[60] Pliny the Elder called earthquakes "underground thunderstorms."[60]
Earthquakes in culture[link]
Mythology and religion[link]
In Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki. When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom. Loki's wife Sigyn stood by him with a bowl to catch the poison, but whenever she had to empty the bowl the poison dripped on Loki's face, forcing him to jerk his head away and thrash against his bonds, which caused the earth to tremble.[61]
In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the cause and god of earthquakes. When he was in a bad mood, he struck the ground with a trident, causing earthquakes and other calamities. He also used earthquakes to punish and inflict fear upon people as revenge.[62]
In Japanese mythology, Namazu (鯰) is a giant catfish who causes earthquakes. Namazu lives in the mud beneath the earth, and is guarded by the god Kashima who restrains the fish with a stone. When Kashima lets his guard fall, Namazu thrashes about, causing violent earthquakes.
Popular culture[link]
In modern popular culture, the portrayal of earthquakes is shaped by the memory of great cities laid waste, such as Kobe in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906.[63] Fictional earthquakes tend to strike suddenly and without warning.[63] For this reason, stories about earthquakes generally begin with the disaster and focus on its immediate aftermath, as in Short Walk to Daylight (1972), The Ragged Edge (1968) or Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1998).[63] A notable example is Heinrich von Kleist's classic novella, The Earthquake in Chile, which describes the destruction of Santiago in 1647. Haruki Murakami's short fiction collection after the quake depicts the consequences of the Kobe earthquake of 1995.
The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical "Big One" expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 (1996) and Goodbye California (1977) among other works.[63] Jacob M. Appel's widely anthologized short story, A Comparative Seismology, features a con artist who convinces an elderly woman that an apocalyptic earthquake is imminent.[64] In Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay, one of the stories in Jim Shepard's Like You'd Understand, Anyway, the "Big One" leads to an even more devastating tsunami.
In the film 2012 (2009), solar flares (geologically implausibly) affecting the Earth's core caused massive destabilization of the Earth's crust layers. This created destruction planet-wide with earthquakes and tsunamis, foreseen by the Mayan culture and myth surrounding the last year noted in the Mesoamerican calendar — 2012.
Contemporary depictions of earthquakes in film are variable in the manner in which they reflect human psychological reactions to the actual trauma that can be caused to directly afflicted families and their loved ones.[65] Disaster mental health response research emphasizes the need to be aware of the different roles of loss of family and key community members, loss of home and familiar surroundings, loss of essential supplies and services to maintain survival.[66][67] Particularly for children, the clear availability of caregiving adults who are able to protect, nourish, and clothe them in the aftermath of the earthquake, and to help them make sense of what has befallen them has been shown even more important to their emotional and physical health than the simple giving of provisions.[68] As was observed after other disasters involving destruction and loss of life and their media depictions, such as those of the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks or Hurricane Katrina—and has been recently observed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it is also important not to pathologize the reactions to loss and displacement or disruption of governmental administration and services, but rather to validate these reactions, to support constructive problem-solving and reflection as to how one might improve the conditions of those affected.[69]
See also[link]
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| Tinie Tempah | |
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 Tempah at the 2010 Way Out West Festival. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Patrick Junior Chukwuemeka Okogwu |
| Born | (1988-11-07) 7 November 1988 (age 23) Plumstead, London, England |
| Genres | Grime, Hip hop, drum and bass |
| Occupations | Rapper, songwriter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Parlophone, Disturbing London |
| Associated acts | Labrinth, Ellie Goulding, Swedish House Mafia, Chase & Status, Usher, Kelly Rowland, Eric Turner, Range, Emeli Sandé, Wiz Khalifa, Bei Maejor, Snoop Dogg, Ester Dean, Taio Cruz, Wretch 32, J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Rita Ora, Taylor ThePALACE |
| Website | tinietempah.com |
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu[1] (born 7 November 1988),[2] better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is an English rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007; his first album, Disc-Overy, debuted at number one in October 2010 and was preceded by two number-one singles.
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Early life[link]
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu, was born in London, England on 7 November 1988, and is of Ibusa, Delta State, Nigerian origin. [3] He lived on the Aylesbury Estate in South East London until he was 12 with his parents and three younger siblings.[3] He attended St. Paul's Catholic School in Abbey Wood, London SE2, (now known as St. Paul's Academy). He went on to study A Levels at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, SW12. Of his London upbringing, Tempah states: “London is one of the only places in the world where you can live in a council block and see a beautiful semi-detached house across the street. Growing up around that was inspirational, it kept me motivated".[1]
Career history[link]
Early career[link]
In 2006, Tempah gained a great deal of airplay on British music TV channel, Channel AKA, for his song "Tears" He made his first mixtape in 2007 with 28 songs, freestyles and remixes, featuring Mz Bratt, Chipmunk and G-Unit.[citation needed] His first album, Disc-Overy, debuted at number one in October 2010 and was preceded by the number-one singles "Pass Out" and "Written in the Stars" and the UK Top 5 hits "Frisky" and "Miami 2 Ibiza". In late 2007, he collaborated on a track ("Perfect GCD Hood Economics Room 147") with grime artist Ultra and producers/songwriters Agent X.
Tempah toured with Chipmunk in February 2010. His first break as a musician came when Sony launched its PlayStation Portable (PSP) and used a track entitled "Listen To The Vibe" featuring Yasmin and DJ Ironik, and "Atlantic/Warner" for the futuristic racing game, Wipeout Pure. This resulted in a promotional European tour alongside the likes of Sway and Dizzee Rascal.
Tempah, his manager and cousin Dumi Oburota founded the independent label Disturbing London primarily as an official outlet for Tempah's music, but with the idea of also signing other young artists. According to Dumi: "We wanted to have a platform to put out our music and there wasn't any Def Jam or Roc-A-Fella label equivalent in England. [Also] I wanted to create a major independent label with quality artists. I felt like the major labels had lost the passion for music."[4] The activities of the label were initially largely funded by student loans and the proceeds from buying and selling cars.[4]
When scout and music consultant Jade Richardson saw Tempah performing at the 2009 Wireless Festival she called Parlophone Records president Miles Leonard saying: “You’ve got to check out this guy Tinie Tempah. He came on at lunchtime and there’s about 1,000 kids screaming for him. He’s only put out one independent release and he’s got this huge audience.”[5] Leonard and A&R Nathan Thompson visited Tempah and his manager Dumi at their studio a few weeks later and were hugely impressed to hear about the work they had already done in developing Tempah's career and by the ambitious plans they had for his future.[5] Leonard told HitQuarters: "I thought it was incredible that an artist and manager were doing so much so soon with so little ... That impressed as much as the music."[5]
Tempah announced his signing to Parlophone in October 2009 by running a competition on his blog, with the winner invited to High Tea at Claridges to celebrate the deal.[6]
[edit] 2010–2011: Success and Disc-Overy
File:Tinie Tempah Toronto 2011.jpg
Tinie Tempah performing at WRONGBAR in Toronto, Canada in May 2011. Touring and promotion for Disc-Overy in North America pushed back the release of Tempah's second album to 2012.[7]
Tempah released his debut single "Pass Out" with Parlophone on 28 February 2010, with it entering the UK Singles Chart at number 1. Selling just over 92,000 copies, making this his first number 1 which it remained for two consecutive weeks. Tempah would later perform "Pass Out" on 25 June 2010 at Glastonbury on the Pyramid stage with Snoop Dogg. Tempah then announced his second single, "Frisky", which was released on 6 June 2010 entering the UK Singles Chart at number 2. Tempah supported Rihanna for four dates in May on her 10-date UK tour with Tinchy Stryder and Pixie Lott.[8] Tempah performed at many summer balls at various universities around the United Kingdom.[citation needed] Tempah performed at Radio 1 Big Weekend in Bangor on 22 May 2010 on the In New Music We Trust stage. He also toured with Mr Hudson in May 2010. Tinie Tempah played the Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium on 6 June 2010, at Wakestock in Abersoch on 3 July 2010, both T4 on the Beach and the Wireless Festival in London's Hyde Park on 4 July, and V Festival on 21 and 22 August 2010. Tempah released his third single "Written in the Stars" on 19 September 2010. This again charted at number 1 in the UK Singles Chart selling over 115,000 copies in its first week, making it his biggest-selling single to date. The song also went on to chart in a number of other countries. Tempah went on to team up with Swedish House Mafia for his fourth single "Miami 2 Ibiza" which was released on 1 October 2010. This went on to reach a peak of number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and his first number 1 in the Netherlands Mega Single Top 100 chart. He released his long-awaited debut album, Disc-Overy on 4 October 2010 which featured all his previous charted singles.
On 11 October 2010, he kicked off his first UK tour which was supported by Chiddy Bang. He went on to win his first 2 MOBO Awards in October. Tempah also featured on the Tinchy Stryder single "Game Over" which was released on 15 November 2010. This reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart. On 25 December, Tempah released his fifth single "Invincible" featuring Kelly Rowland, which peaked at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. "Wonderman", featuring Ellie Goulding, was released and was the fifth official single. Tempah joined Usher on the European leg of his OMG Tour in January 2011. Tempah was also nominated for 4 Brit Awards making him the most nominated artist at the awards. His single "Written in the Stars" was used for a WrestleMania XXVII countdown promo during the WWE PPV Royal Rumble on 30 January 2011. It was later confirmed by WWE that it will be the official theme for Wrestlemania XXVII. It's also the theme song for the 2011 MLB Post Season. On 15 February 2011, he won his first ever Brit Award, for Best British Breakthrough Act. He also won a Brit for Best British Single.[9] On 7 March 2011, Tempah expressed his desire for his next album to go triple platinum. "I reckon in 2011, towards the end of it, I'm going to do an arena tour – and sell it out – then I reckon I'm going to release another album, and fingers crossed it can go platinum again, and double platinum, and triple. Let's just sell a million."[10] In early 2011, Tinie Tempah announced a UK Arena tour. Support acts included Nero, Labrinth and Chase and Status (After Party DJ Set).[citation needed] In 2011, Labrinth revealed that Tempah will be releasing "Pass Out" in the United States, featuring a well recognised artist in the American rap game.[11] On 28 November 2011, Tinie Tempah hosted an episode of the TV show, Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[12] Also in November, Tinie Tempah released two tracks, "Like It or Love It" which featured both Wretch 32 & J. Cole, and "Lucky Cunt" which featured Big Sean. On 16 December, Tempah released a 9-track mixtape/EP titled Happy Birthday. In early 2012 Tempah featured with Eric Turner and Lupe Fiasco on a track called "Angels and Stars". Tempah's song "Written in the Stars" was used as the entrance song for the New York Giants before Super Bowl XLVI.
[edit] 2012–present: Demonstration
By December 2010 Tempah was writing a second album,[13] saying there will be a more electronic and live feel to it. It was originally intended for a late 2011 release.[7][14] but is now scheduled for October 2012.[15] During an interview, Tempah commented on his second album: "I always like to work with different people on each project I do, just so you get a different sound and angle. I will be working with some of the same people I did for the first album, you know what they say ‘if it ain't broke then don’t try and fix it’."[16] Tempah hoped to collaborate with other artists; "I really want to collaborate with Toronto's very own Drake. I think he's amazing at what he does. I'd also like to collaborate with Adele, Sleigh Bells, Lykke Li, Dev, James Blake ― those are the few that I'd really like to work with."[17] Tempah announced in an interview with Rolling Stone that his next single is to be called "Till I'm Gone" which will feature Wiz Khalifa and is produced by Stargate.[18][19] The single and the video song were released at the end of June 2011.[20] Tinie Tempah, world renowned drummer Travis Barker and Irish boxing champion Katie Taylor, joined forces to launch Lucozade’s new Yes Campaign, which signals a repositioning of its sports and energy drink brand. Featuring a performance of Tempah's "Simply Unstoppable" with Travis Barker on drums, remixed especially for Lucozade Sport,[citation needed] the campaign was released in Summer 2011.
Tinie Tempah has asked a number of artists to appear on his upcoming second album, including Gary Barlow, Chris Martin, Dizzee Rascal, and The Script.[21]
At the Brit Awards in 2012, he announced his second album would be called 'Demonstration'.[22]
Discography[link]
Main article: Tinie Tempah discography
- Disc-Overy (2010)
- Demonstration (2012)
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Event | Prize | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | MOBO Awards | Best Newcomer | Won | [23] | |
| Best Video | "Frisky" (featuring Labrinth) | Won | |||
| Best UK Act | Nominated | ||||
| Best Song | "Pass Out" | Nominated | |||
| 4Music Video Honours | Hottest Boy | Nominated | [24] | ||
| Hottest Hook-up | "Frisky" (featuring Labrinth) | Nominated | |||
| MP3 Music Awards | The UGG Award (Urban/Garage/Grime) | Won | [25] | ||
| Urban Music Awards | Best Newcomer | Won | [23] | ||
| Best Video | "Wonderman" (featuring Ellie Goulding) | Nominated | |||
| Best Hip-Hop Act | Won | ||||
| Best Collaboration | "Pass Out" | Won | |||
| BT Digital Music Awards | Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Nominated | [26] | ||
| Best Male Artist | Nominated | ||||
| Best Newcomer | Won | ||||
| Best Video | "Pass Out" | Nominated | |||
| Best Song | "Pass Out" | Nominated | |||
| UK Festival Awards | Breakthrough Artist | Won | [27] | ||
| MTV Europe Music Awards | Best UK and Ireland New Act | Nominated | [28] | ||
| 2011 | South Bank Awards | Pop Music | Disc-Overy | Nominated | [29] |
| Brit Awards | Best British Male | Nominated | [30] | ||
| Best Breakthrough Act | Won | ||||
| Best Single | "Pass Out" | Won | |||
| Album of the Year | Disc-Overy | Nominated | |||
| Ivor Novello Awards | Best Contemporary Song | "Pass Out" | Won | [31] | |
| BET Awards | Best International Act: UK | Won | [32] | ||
| MOBO Awards | Best UK Hip Hop/Grime Act | Won | [33] | ||
| Best Album | Disc-Overy | Nominated | [33] | ||
| Best Song | "Hitz" (Chase & Status featuring Tinie Tempah) | Nominated | [33] | ||
| Best Song | "Wonderman" (featuring Ellie Goulding) | Nominated | [33] | ||
| Best UK Act | Nominated | [33] | |||
| Mercury Prize | Album of the Year | Disc-Overy | Nominated |
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- ^ a b Tinie Tempah: 10 things you need to know about the Brit Award nominated rapper The Mirror. Retrieved 13 October 2011
- ^ a b "Interview with Dumi Oburota". HitQuarters. 7 March 2011. http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_DOint.html. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^ a b c "Interview with Miles Leonard". HitQuarters. 7 February 2011. http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_MLeonardInt.html. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ Tinie Tempah signs to Parlophone/EMI! (Video), http://milkand2sugars.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/tinie-tempah-signs-to-parlophoneemi/
- ^ a b Tinie Tempah to release next album 'in the new year' | News. Nme.Com (2011-04-28). Retrieved on 2011-10-26.
- ^ "Tinie Tempah supports Rihanna on UK tour". digitalspy.co.uk. 28 April 2010. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a217169/tinie-tempah-supports-rihanna-on-uk-tour.html. Retrieved 28 August 2010.
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- ^ "Tinie Tempah Reveals His Million Sales Ambition For New Album". http://www.taletela.com/news/5366/tinie-tempah-reveals-his-million-sales-ambition-for-new-album. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
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| Name | Tempah, Tinie |
| Alternative names | Okogwu, Patrick Chukwuemeka (real name) |
| Short description | British rapper |
| Date of birth | 7 November 1988 |
| Place of birth | Plumstead, London, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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Brett Domino is the alter-ego of Youtube musician Rob J. Madin. As Brett Domino, he is a musician, internet celebrity and TV presenter from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He is best known for his YouTube videos, in which he plays mostly covers and medleys of popular songs on the Stylophone and keytar - sometimes with his band, 'The Brett Domino Trio'. The band is notable in that its members (Brett Domino, Steven Peavis (Ste Anderson) and Mitch Hutchinson (Michael Denny)) all play exclusively keyboard instruments. In a number of recent videos, however, Brett and Steven have diversified to incorporate other instruments, such as ukulele, theremin, recorder, accordion, kalimba and Skoog. Brett and the band have been featured a number of times as part of BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles Show,[1] and in 2009 the band appeared on ITV's Britain's Got Talent, performing live as the house band on two episodes of ITV2's sister show, Britain's Got More Talent, in the final week.[2]
Brett's Youtube videos have received over 11,000,000 views. The Justin Timberlake Medley featuring Trabasacks was posted by Justin Timberlake on his Twitter page and official website.
Brett has also been featured on the websites of Lady Gaga and Ellie Goulding. Another musical alter-ego of Rob J Madin has recently surfaced on YouTube with the name 'Rocco La Bête'. The visual style and editing techniques are very similar to those of the Brett Domino videos.
On November 22, 2010, Brett Domino released a song called "Gillian McKeith", a humorous take on the celebrity during her time in the 10th series of the ITV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!. The YouTube video has had over 1,000,000 views. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 29 on November 28, 2010.
On February 18, 2011, Brett played a specially written song on The Chris Moyles Show for Chris Moyles' Birthday
On June 10, 2011, Rob J Madin has recently surfaced on Youtube with the name 'C-Bomb', a 'cousin' of Brett Domino's. Here, playing in a style of Dubstep, unlike other Madin videos, 'C-Bomb' is not seen playing any instruments, but does dance, in a similar style to Brett Domino's Lady Gaga - Bad Romance. It also appears that 'C-Bomb' writes his own compositions, as seen with his Youtube video 'Irresistible'
He appeared on Blue Peter, the BBC children's programme on March 1st 2012, performing a humorous song detailing a short list for the best children's book of the last ten years.
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Singles[link]
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | |||
| 2010 | "Gillian McKeith" | 29[3][4] | non-album singles |
| "Fairytale of New York" (cover, with Alexa Goddard) | — | ||
| 2011 | "End of the (News Of The) World" | — | |
| "Ministry of Sound Medley" | — | ||
| "I'm a Celebrity 2011" | — |
Albums[link]
Songs Off Youtube[link]
Release date: 1 March 2011
Track listing:
- Beat It (2011 Version)
- Justin Timberlake Medley
- I Feel for You
- We Speak No Americano
- 1980s Stylophone Medley
- Bad Romance
- Jurassic Park Theme
- Ellie Goulding Medley
- Hip-Hop Medley
- Nelly Furtado Medley
- Michael Jackson Medley
- Korn / 50 Cent / Tenna Marie Medley
- Now 75 Medley
- Party In the Park (Radio Aire) Medley
- William Tell Overture (Live)
- Track By Track Commentary
References[link]
- ^ Rachel (2008-10-22). "The Chris Moyles Show: The Brett Domino Trio". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrismoyles/2008/10/what_the_team_are_up_to_today.shtml. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
- ^ "The return of the coolest geeks in town! - Britain's Got Talent - Story". Talent.itv.com. http://talent.itv.com/news/story/item_100236.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
- ^ "Archive Chart". Theofficialcharts.com. 2010-12-04. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/2010-12-04/. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
- ^ "Gillian McKeith - Single by Brett Domino - Download Gillian McKeith - Single on iTunes". Itunes.apple.com. 2010-11-22. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/gillian-mckeith-single/id406005857. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
External links[link]
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Domino, Brett |
| Alternative names | Rob J Madin |
| Short description | Singer, songwriter, musician and Youtube celebrity |
| Date of birth | 1984 |
| Place of birth | Leeds, UK |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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