Scott Brown elected Massachusetts State Senator
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Disaster in Haiti
I did hear of Pat Robertson’s comments. I know next to nothing about the supposed pact though. It apparently comes from a single book. Some say it is true, others say it is not. Either way, Robertson certainly wasn’t being intentionally hateful. The program he said the comment on was dedicated to raising relief money for the Haitian victims. Immediately after the comment he added something like, “so let’s reach out and help these people….” The comment was meant to move his viewers to compassion for a lost and struggling people.
In an earthquake, the release of energy in the Earth’s crust creates seismic waves, or waves of force, that spread out from the energy release center, or epicenter. As a wave passes an object on the ground, the ground and object move with the wave a short distance and then spring back, only to be hit by another wave, and another, and another. This massive shifting of the ground puts great lateral stress on objects such as buildings. As the stress on the structures that make up the building accumulates, the building eventually fails in numerous locations. For a small-scale example, glue a cardboard house to another piece of cardboard and then shake it back and forth. The weakest part of the house (probably the glue in this example) will fail and the house will fall over. When Earthquakes are powerful enough, they create massive damage to cities such as what happened in Haiti.
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