Honda expects 63.5% drop in annual income
Honda expects a 63.5% annual decrease in income. The decrease occurred because of the drop is sales due to the lack of spare parts because of the largest earthquake in the history of Japan. This time Honda has published its forecast a month later than usual. Despite the aftermath of the recent calamity, Honda expects the normal level of car making in the country this month and restoration of the market beyond Japan in August-September. Gazeta.ru reported that according to the results of the financial year, the world sales of Honda cars will drop by 6% to 3.3 million cars. Last week the Toyota Motor Corp has announced that it expects a 31% decrease in the world income because of the earthquake in Japan on March 11th. Nissan, which is the second largest Japanese car maker hasn’t yet published its forecast according to the results of financial activity.Largest Earthquake In History - News
The decrease occurred because of the drop is sales due to the lack of spare parts because of the largest earthquake in the history of Japan. This time Honda has published its forecast a month later than usual. Despite the aftermath of the recent
NEW Zealand lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" at the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates and is no stranger to large earthquakes. The Alpine Fault, which runs through the South Island, is the "on-land" boundary between
“For many of the countries that really didn't expect major earthquake, that idea is changing right now.” Japan's building code, one of the strictest in the world, has been tightened three times since its adoption in 1950, each time within three years
As with many faults, the two plates sporadically stick as they slide past each other, triggering large earthquakes when the strain is released. All told, the earthquakes have to release a strain that results from a relative motion of the plates that's
AUGUSTA, Ga., May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 7, 1812, after months of powerful earthquakes in the central United States, a major earthquake destroyed New Madrid, Missouri, in what is now known as the New Madrid seismic zone.
The Goal: Mapping the Alaska Megathrust – State of the Planet
Two tectonic plates converge along a 2500-km-long subduction zone offshore southern Alaska. Stress builds up at the contact between these plates, which is released in large, destructive earthquakes like the recent event offshore Japan. One of the big conundrums about these settings is how large of an area locks up on the contact between these plates (called the ‘megathrust’) and then moves suddenly in earthquakes. To tackle this question, my colleagues and I will be collecting data on land and at sea this summer to produce an image of the megathrust, constrain the properties of rocks around and within the megathrust and link these fault properties to the earthquake history.
Imaging a major fault boundary that lies tens of miles under the seafloor is not an easy task, but we have exceptional tools for the job. We will use sound waves to essentially make a sonogram of the upper part of the earth offshore Alaska. The R/V Marcus G. Langseth is a research vessel designed especially for this purpose. An array of airguns towed behind the ship produces sound waves that travel down through the earth and back again. We record these returning sound waves on a variety of very sensitive instruments: two 5-mile-long cables filled with pressure sensors that are also towed behind the ship, seismometers placed on the seafloor and seismometers onshore around the Alaska peninsula. Collecting all of these data requires a lot of manpower: a team of scientists and students from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Dalhousie University and the University of Oklahoma will work together to get the job done.
Our expedition will focus on a particularly interesting area off of the Alaska Peninsula. Some areas of the plate boundary here lock up and then rupture catastrophically in big earthquakes, while in other areas, the plates appear to be smoothly sliding by each other and thus do not produce great earthquakes. The Semidi segment last ruptured in a great earthquake (magnitude 8.2) 73 years ago in 1938. This area has an estimated recurrence interval of ~50-75 years, and thus might be due to produce another big earthquake soon. It lies just west of the area that produced the second largest earthquake ever recorded in 1964. However, just to the west lies the Shumagin gap, an area that has not produced a great earthquake historically. Our study will provide new insights into how this megathrust (and other similar tectonic settings around the world) work.
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