Sushi – Popular Japanese Food
Nowadays, Sushi is becoming the most popular of all the Japanese food in the restaurants. In fact, many of us wanted to taste how good sushi as food is even if it did not originate in our country. However, we still do not know how it is being processed and how it affects ones health. […]
Read MoreThe Wonders of Las Vegas
The popular name Las Vegas comes from the Spanish term “meadows” or the grassland meadow. The city is situated in Nevada at the Western United States. It was discovered in the year 1829 by the league of Mexican merchants spearheaded by Antonio Arnijo when they arrived at the grassland meadow as they journeyed to Los […]
Read MoreDrinking Coffee: Good or Bad
Coffee has always been part of people’s lives even for the past years. A good conversation with a friend will never be complete without a cup of coffee. Business meetings will not end without sipping a cup of coffee as it warms our body removing the stress. However, drinking coffee has been the point of […]
Read MoreFive World’s Tallest Buildings
Nowadays, numerous buildings are racing with each other to become the tallest buildings in the world. In fact, according to recent surveys, the newest or the latest buildings built are also the tallest ones and the more beauteous to look at. Just like these top five of the rank world’s tallest buildings mentioned below. They […]
Read MoreThe Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics refers to the theory widely accepted in the 1960s and 1970s that the earth’s crust and upper mantle are composed of tectonic plates that continually move or drift. This motion can cause earthquakes in various magnitudes and trigger volcanic activities. During major earthquakes the seafloor also moves and can generate huge ocean waves […]
Read MoreJapan Sits on Ring of Fire
In Japan’s shaky, unstable geography, earthquakes are commonplace. No other country in Asia has seen so many earthquakes as Japan, China, and other countries along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Just recently, Japan was rocked by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake causing substantial loss of life and property, and inflicting serious damage in the country’s infrastructure, […]
Read MoreNuclear Fears in Japan
Thousands of people have been evacuated for health and safety reasons due to an explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. The roof and walls of one of the reactors were blown off and there have been fears of a meltdown. The devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan last Friday, March 2011, caused damage to […]
Read MoreThe Tokai Earthquake
Honshu Island, located southwest of Tokyo, has been considered the most earthquake-prone region in Japan. It is here that Japanese geologists found regular and repeated movements of earth’s plates causing them to rapture. What are the earth’s plates? The earth is composed of layers: inner and outer core, lower and upper mantle, transition region and […]
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