This ruling was also affirmed by the Florida appeals court and denied a hearing by the Florida Supreme Court. When Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the second time, in 2003, the Florida legislature created âTerri's Lawâ to override the court decision, and the tube was again reinserted. This law was subsequently ruled an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.
Liquefaction-Liquefaction is a processes that occurs in water-saturated unconsolidated sediment due to shaking. In areas underlain by such material, the ground shaking causes the grains to loose grain to grain contact, and thus the material tends to flow.
Earthquakes: sea-quakes & tsunamis. Large shallow earthquakes generate the most destructive tsunamis where their epicentre is on a fault line along the ocean floor. Tectonic subduction and tectonic plate boundaries are the areas most likely to cause tsunamis. Collision of these tectonic plates in these areas of high seismicity cause large earthquakes as the plates move past each other, tilting, offsetting or displacing large areas of ocean floor from just a few kilometres up to 1,000 or more.